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Benefiting from negative feedback

This article discusses why it is so hard for people to benefit from negative feedback. We examine factors involved in the effective use of negative feedback. Our analysis suggests that the main obstacles to the effective use of negative feedback stem from the failure to obtain it and the failure to conduct an accurate appraisal of it. This is in contrast to research indicating that the main obs...

Modular SOS: Differences from SOS

Modular SOS (MSOS) is a simple variant of conventional Structural Operational Semantics (SOS). Using MSOS, the transition rules for each construct of a programming language can be given definitively, once and for all, and never need reformulation when further constructs are added to the language. MSOS thus provides an exceptionally high degree of modularity in language descriptions, thereby rem...

Imaging Brain Development: Benefiting from Individual Variability

Human brain development is a complex process that evolves from early childhood to young adulthood. Major advances in brain imaging are increasingly being used to characterize the developing brain. These advances have further helped to elucidate the dynamic maturational processes that lead to the emergence of complex cognitive abilities in both typical and atypical development. However, conventi...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Are adults benefiting from state coverage expansions?

This study provides a rigorous evaluation of state efforts to expand insurance coverage in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. Overall, parents in Wisconsin and parents and childless adults in Massachusetts experienced the largest expansions in public coverage, with few, if any, offsetting reductions in private coverage. In contrast, the coverage expansions for parents in Cali...