Judging goodness must come before judging quality - but what is the good of health care?

Judging Good and Evil

Overview The use of " anti-virus " techniques in many modern worms recalls two stories: the " war " between virus writers and the possibility of a beneficial virus. This article examines both in light of recent events in the virus world. In early 2004, the release of Netsky began a rash of articles discussing " vigilante " coders trying to stop the spread of other worms. The war between Netsky'...

What Goes up Must Come Down. . . but Is It Reversible?

Introduction Reversibility is of concern to every conservator, and it may not be an exaggeration to say that it is the most basic of all of the concerns that conservators have. The reasons for this concern need not be discussed here, as they are well known in the profession. In fact, the general concept is one that can be readily explained to an intelligent lay person. What is perhaps less appa...

Judging Whether Multiple Silhouettes Can Come from the Same Object

We consider the problem of recognizing an object from its silhouette. We focus on the case in which the camera translates, and rotates about a known axis parallel to the image, such as when a mobile robot explores an environment. In this case we present an algorithm for determining whether a new silhouette could come from the same object that produced two previously seen silhouettes. In a basic...

‘I know how they must feel’: Empathy and judging defendants

The current study investigated the effects of state and trait empathy in legal judgments and tested the relationship between trait and state emotion in one hundred and fifty eight students aged 18-59. Assessments were taken of participants’ trait empathy and then state empathy was induced in half the sample. Following this all participants read a trial transcript and made judgments regarding: t...

Judging the evidence.