Regression Calibration Is Valid When Properly Applied

IT Does Matter (At Least When It Is Properly Managed)

The works of (Ackoff, 1967), (Dearden, 1972), and more recently (Carr, 2003) argue that IT is becoming a commodity. From their perspective, IT is not so much a source of competitive advantage, but more of a mundane requirement of the environment similar to electrical service and other utilities. Carr presents several compelling arguments to support his commodity view of IT. We feel that such a ...

What Is Applied Literature?

Applied literature is a term that is the outcome of a need to put literature to tangible uses in the “real” world. A medical practitioner looking for a definition of life, for instance, finds literature a useful source for the answer. With paradigm shifts in scientific studies, interdisciplinarity has been a method to overcome the alienations that resulted from the isolation of disciplines from...

Sensitive thyrotrophin assays: excellent when properly used.

Strong-Cyclic Planning when Fairness is Not a Valid Assumption

We address the class of fully-observable nondeterministic (FOND) planning problems where non-deterministic actions are not guaranteed to display fair behaviour. Typical solutions to FOND planning problems either guarantee goal reachability with a bounded number of transitions (so-called strong acyclic solutions), or are predicated on a fairness assumption that presumes each action effect occurs...

When every $P$-flat ideal is flat

In this paper‎, ‎we study the class of rings in which every $P$-flat‎ ‎ideal is flat and which will be called $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎Von Neumann regular rings‎, ‎hereditary rings‎, ‎semi-hereditary ring‎, ‎PID and arithmetical rings are examples of $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In the context domain‎, ‎this notion coincide with‎ ‎Pr"{u}fer domain‎. ‎We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for‎...