Prescriptive safeguards

Prescriptive Procedures

Since its inception, Audiology has been concerned with hearing aid selection and the interaction of the hearing impaired person and amplification . The classic work of Watson and Knudsen (1) and Lybarger (2) suggests a long clinical interest in prescribing parameters for hearing aids according to audiometric measurements . In the early days, prescriptive procedures were neglected due to technol...

DySectAPI: Scalable Prescriptive Debugging

We present the DySectAPI, a tool that allow users to construct probe trees for automatic, event-driven debugging at scale. The traditional, interactive debugging model, whereby users manually step through and inspect their application, does not scale well even for current supercomputers. While lightweight debugging models scale well, they can currently only debug a subset of bug classes. DySect...

Children’s Prescriptive Judgments

When do descriptive regularities (what characteristics individuals have) become prescriptive norms (what characteristics individuals should have)? We examined children’s (4–13 years) and adults’ use of group regularities to make prescriptive judgments, employing novel groups (Hibbles and Glerks) that engaged in morally neutral behaviors (e.g., eating different kinds of berries). Participants we...

Surgical Errors and Safeguards

Prescriptive Analytics Using Synthetic Information

We describe the use of synthetic information for doing prescriptive and predictive analytics. We discuss in detail how synthetic information is created by combining data from multiple sources, and then describe its role in an an ongoing disaster resilience study where we simulate the aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear detonation in Washington DC.