Mothering in Hindsight: Troubling Time(s)

Margaret McCartney: Troubling leadership.

Keith McNeil resigned as chief executive of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2015 shortly before the Care Quality Commission rated it inadequate. He was popular and highly regarded. But, like many other chief executives before him, he resigned after a short tenure, having found nurse recruitment expensive and difficult and in “challenging” financial circumstances. 3 His colleagues wanted him to stay. ...

POND-Hindsight: Applying Hindsight Optimization to POMDPs

We present the POND-Hindsight entry in the POMDP track of the 2011 IPPC. Similar to successful past entrants (such as FF-Replan and FF-Hindsight) in the MDP tracks of the IPPC, we sample action observations (similar to how FFReplan samples action outcomes) and guide the construction of policy trajectories with a conformant (as opposed to classical) planning heuristic. We employ a number of tech...

Mothering to death.

Three families are described in which the healthy only child was, from early childhood, put to bed and treated as if ill, dependent, and incapable. This abnormal mothering continued for 28, 45, and 48 years, respectively, and the children died as disabled adults. In each case, the three mothers evaded medical, educational, and social services. The origins of their behaviour are examined, and th...

In hindsight : Doklady Akademii

This short contribution presents the first paper in which Vapnik and Chervonenkis describe the foundations of the Statistical Learning Theory [10]. The original paper was published in the Doklady, the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1968. An English translation was published the same year in Soviet Mathematics, a journal from the American Mathematical Society publishing translat...

Mothering Your Unborn Baby