Generosity: No Doubt, but at Times Excessive and Delusive

Nothing is Certain but Doubt and Tests

Effective software safety standards will contribute to confidence, or assurance, in the safety of the systems in which the software is used. It is infeasible to demonstrate a correlation between standards and accidents, but there is an alternative view that makes standards “testable”. Software projects are subject to uncertainty; good standards reduce uncertainty more than poor ones. Similarly ...

Asymmetric Generosity but Not Agreement in Buyers’ and Sellers’ Offers

Biased but in Doubt: Conflict and Decision Confidence

Human reasoning is often biased by intuitive heuristics. A central question is whether the bias results from a failure to detect that the intuitions conflict with traditional normative considerations or from a failure to discard the tempting intuitions. The present study addressed this unresolved debate by using people's decision confidence as a nonverbal index of conflict detection. Participan...

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Leaving no element of doubt: analysis of proteins using microPIXE.

Introduction The identification of atoms, anions and cations in protein structure electron density is often inferred from the temperature factor of the atom and from its coordination distances to surrounding amino acids. In many cases unambiguous identification is not possible without the use of additional techniques. Mass spectrometry analysis methods [1] have advanced significantly over the p...