Government must set up mechanism to save failing trusts

Must doctors save their patients?

Do doctors and other medical staff have an obligation to treat those who need their help? This paper assumes no legal or contractual obligations but attempts to discover whether there is any general moral obligation to treat those in need. In particular the questions of whether or not the obligation that falls on medical staff is different from that of others and of whether doctors are more bla...

Can Modalities Save Naive Set Theory?

History The late Grisha Mints asked Scott whether a naive set theory could be consistent in modal logic. Here are two modal forms of comprehension: (∃y)(∀x)(x ∈ y ↔ ϕ) (Comp) (∃y)(∀x)(x ∈ y ↔ ϕ) (Comp) At the time (2009) neither he nor Scott knew the answer. In the most commonly used systems, where the Converse Barcan Formula (∀xϕ → ∀xϕ) is derivable, (Comp) follows from another comprehension p...

Save Up to 99% of Your Time in Mapping Validation

Identifying semantic correspondences between different vocabularies has been recognized as a fundamental step towards achieving interoperability. Several manual and automatic techniques have been recently proposed. Fully manual approaches are very precise, but extremely costly. Conversely, automatic approaches tend to fail when domain specific background knowledge is needed. Consequently, they ...

How to Save a Failing Fellowship: Drexel Infectious Disease Improvement in ACGME Fellow Survey Results

Learning to Set Up Numerical

Gradient-based numerical optimization of complex engineering designs ooers the promise of rapidly producing better designs. However, such methods generally assume that the objective function and constraint functions are continuous , smooth, and deened everywhere. Unfortunately , realistic simulators tend to violate these assumptions, making optimization unreliable. Several decisions that need t...