I know how to add them, I didn't know I had to add them

I Know What I Know

How important is software construction? Software construction has been the awkward stepchild of software engineering for decades. This puzzles me because software construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to be done on every project. Code is the center of the software universe. Process advocates tend to downplay coding, focusing more on the documentation that occurs before and after c...

How Do I Know?

Husband is the senior advisor for root cause analyses in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Peformance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses. He is a retired Air Force officer with a doctorate in chemical engineering from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is grateful to Gary Bliss, Bob Jennings, Mike Ginter, John Mueller and Ed Mc...

I don't know how to treat amyloidosis.

The firstdemonstrationthat survivalwasprolongedinamyloidosiswiththeuseof melphalan-basedtherapywas inthecontextofa phase3randomizedtrial.2 Inthatstudy, themedian survivalachievedwasonly18months.Subsequently, theamyloidosiscenter inPavia, Italy, reportedon46patientswith lightchainamyloidosis ineligible forstemcell transplantation, treatedwith melphalananddexamethasoneanddemonstrateda progression...

How do I Know how much I don’t Know? A cognitive approach about Uncertainty and Ignorance

We propose a general framework for reasoning and deciding in uncertain scenarios, with possibly infinite source of information (open world). This involves representing ignorance, uncertainty and contradiction; we present and analyze those concepts, integrating them in the notion of lack of confidence or perplexity. We introduce and quantify the strength of the beliefs of an agent and investigat...

Emulsion Properties and Related Know-how to Attain Them