Patient Perception of Physician Compassion After a More Optimistic vs a Less Optimistic Message

Truthfulness of More Optimistic vs Less Optimistic Messages for Patients With Advanced Cancer.

Foundations of mathematics: an optimistic message

Historically, mathematics has often been regarded as a role model for all of science – a paragon of abstraction, logical precision, and objectivity. The 19th and early 20th centuries saw tremendous progress. The great mathematician David Hilbert proposed a sweeping program whereby the entire panorama of higher mathematical abstractions would be justified objectively and logically, in terms of f...

Message Logging: Pessimistic, Optimistic, and Causal

Message logging protocols are an integral part of a technique for implementing processes that can recover from crash failures. All message logging protocols require that, when recovery is complete, there be no orphan processes, which are surviving processes whose states are inconsistent with the recovered state of a crashed process. We give a precise speciication of the consistency property \no...

Message Logging: Pessimistic, Optimistic, Causal, and Optimal

Message-logging protocols are an integral part of a popular technique for implementing processes that can recover from crash failures. All message-logging protocols require that, when recovery is complete, there be no orphan processes , which are surviving processes whose states are inconsistent with the recovered state of a crashed process. We give a precise speci cation of the consistency pro...

Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Interpretation of Linguistic Negation

Linguistic negation processing is a challenging problem studied by a large number of researchers from different communities, i.e. logic, linguistics, etc. We are interested in finding the positive interpretations of a negative sentence represented as ”x is not A”. In this paper, we do not focus on the single set of translations but on two approximation sets. The first one called pessimistic cor...