Is it Possible to Develop a Language without Exception Handling?

Is It Possible to Develop a Compassionate Organization?; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

This paper represents a commentary to Marianna Fotaki’s Editorial: ‘Why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ Within this commentary, I discuss some of the issues raised by Marianna Fotaki, and conclude that we should work towards an organizational culture which considers the important concept of compassion by focusing on the well-being and teamwork of all involved.

Is It Possible to Develop a Mathematical Theory of Economic Dynamics without Informational Omnipotence?

Is It a Judicial Exception

The question of what is patentable subject matter is one that may be easy to answer in theory but which can pose significant hurdles in practice. As detailed in the Guidelines, this question is answered through a two-ste p process that begins with deciding whether or not a claim is directed to a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea (for simplicity, these shall be collectivel...

Exception Handling

The rst part of this paper provides rigorous deenitions for several basic concepts underlying the design of dependable programs, such as speciication, program semantics, exception, program correctness, robustness, failure, fault, and error. The second part investigates what it means to handle exceptions in modular programs structured as hierarchies of data abstractions. The problems to be solve...

is it possible to develop a compassionate organization?; comment on “why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?”

this paper represents a commentary to marianna fotaki’s editorial: ‘why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare?’ within this commentary, i discuss some of the issues raised by marianna fotaki, and conclude that we should work towards an organizational culture which considers the important concept of compassion by focusing on the well-being and teamwork of all involved.