Is Life Getting Better?

Ctivity: Is It Getting Better?

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Is Your Cough Getting Better?

203 Undoubtedly, cough is one of the most common symptoms that make people visit physicians for its treatment. It is also apparent that management of chronic cough is not so simple. Underlying causative diseases are diverse, pathogenic mechanism is not clear, and patients' complaints from personal subjective feelings often make physicians even more frustrated. Furthermore , some patients fail t...

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Is Machine Translation Getting Better over Time?

Recent human evaluation of machine translation has focused on relative preference judgments of translation quality, making it difficult to track longitudinal improvements over time. We carry out a large-scale crowd-sourcing experiment to estimate the degree to which state-of-theart performance in machine translation has increased over the past five years. To facilitate longitudinal evaluation, ...

Life is Getting Better: Societal Evolution and Fit with Human Nature

Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of 'modernization' has profoundly affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. There is difference of opinion as to whether we live better now than before and consequently there is also disagreement as to whether we should continue moderni...