FAR EASTERN CAPITALS: TO LEAVE «FOR WHERE» OR «FROM»?

To leave or not to leave.

Lies, damned lies and Brexit statistics. It's not been a good month for anyone espousing evidence-based policy and politics after the chair of the Commons health committee switched from Leave to Remain, citing misuse of data by the Leave campaign.

From a Far Eastern Study Room.

At the 51st WMA General Assembly, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in autumn 1999, the World Medical Association (WMA) decided to develop “basic medical ethics education materials” for the use of those involved in the healthcare field, such as physicians, nurses, and medical students. With the WMA Secretariat’s Ethics Unit playing a central role and taking charge in this endeavor, Dr. John R. Williams...

Why Customers Leave or Decide Not to Leave – 40

Stream Reasoning: Where We Got So Far

Data Streams unbounded sequences of time-varying data elements are pervasive. They occur in a variety of modern applications including the Web where blogs, feeds, and microblogs are increasingly adopted to distribute and present information in real-time streams. We foresee the need for languages, tools and methodologies for representing, managing and reasoning on data streams for the Semantic W...

Take It or Leave It ?

This research examines the consumer’s decision whether to make a purchase. I propose one psychological process underlying this decision, namely, a metacognitive process I call preference testing. Specifically, when deciding whether to purchase a particular option, people observe whether they have tested the option against alternative options for purchase. Seeing they have considered a competing...