Measuring Humaneness: Can It Be Done, and What Does It Mean If It Can?

"Military importance": what does it mean and can it be assessed objectively?

Bullying in Schools: What Is It and What Can Be Done About It?

Molly Chamberlin ([email protected]) is an IEPC Research Associate for Indiana K-12 Education Policy. According to a recent study, nearly 30% of American youth reported involvement in bullying, with 13% reporting being the aggressor, 11% the victim, and 6% both bullies and victims. Although it is often dismissed as a part of growing up, bullying can have serious and long-lasting consequences...

The Objectization Problem - What It Is And What Can be Done About It

The packaging of both data and procedures into autonomous units is one of the key insights exploited in object-oriented programming. By projecting the system state space into independent object spaces and by limiting the effects of one object’s actions on another through an object’s methods, implementation changes in one object will not be visible to other objects. This clean delineation into o...

Going Paperless: Can It Be Done?

Background. Since 1989, Beth Israel Hospital has been deploying an extensive online patient record (the OMR), which augmented a heavily used integrated hospital information system. Initially begun in a large primary care practice, the system is now used to share patient records among over 30 practices on three campuses. Although the system was intended to eliminate the need for paper, we found ...

Cricoid pressure, can it still be done?