Questions to Help Understand Religion and Development in Vanuatu

Questions of Religion and Cultural Policy In

This paper is made available online in accordance with publisher policies. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item and our policy information available from the repository home page for further information. To see the final version of this paper please visit the publisher's website. Access to the published version may require a subscri...

Strategies to help patients understand risks.

Effective risk communication is the basis for informed patient consent for medical treatment, yet until recently doctors have lagged behind other professionals in learning this skill. In other industries where risks have to be conveyed to the public (such as chemical, nuclear, water, and food industries) usually only a few people carry out this task on behalf of their organisations and they are...

Does time help to understand consciousness?

In response to our target paper on the possible role of temporal binding for consciousness (Engel et al., 1999), a number of arguments have been raised that, to varying degrees and on varying grounds, doubt the validity of our approach. To facilitate understanding of the key points in the debate, we will first summarize the essential statements of our paper. Subsequently, we will respond to the...

Can Argumentation Help AI to Understand Explanation?

Explanation-aware computing needs to supplement the older model that sees an explanation as a chain of inferences with a pragmatic and communicative model that structures an explanation as a dialog exchange. The field of argumentation, originally put forward in linguistics and philosophy, is now seen as providing a core approach that has been widely adopted in artificial intelligence, including...

Resilience and development practice in Vanuatu