Television: Can we have some more?

Electronic Medical Record System: Have we Bitten off More Than we Can Chew?

F rst used for management and adm n strat ve purposes, Electron c Med cal Record (EMR) systems are now be ng ncreas ngly employed to collect and synthes ze med cal nformat on. The EMR system offers support n med cal dec s onmak ng, promotes use of gu del nes, ncreases coord nat on between d fferent health care prov ders and s bel eved to mprove overall qual ty of care. The Sultan Qaboos Un vers...

A. Some Proofs We Have

Sampling and Soundness: Can We Have Both?

Recent research on model counting in CNF formulas has shown that a certain sampling method can yield results that are sound with a provably high probability. The key idea is to iteratively restrict the search space, and to randomly choose which part to consider. The expected value of this sampled count is equal to the real count. If one minimizes over several trials, and purposefully underestim...

Extending Nonaka’s Knowledge Creation Theory: How We Know More than We Can Tell & Tell More than We Can Know

Nonaka and colleagues propose a theory of knowledge creation grounded in the epistemology of Michael Polanyi. However, both Nonaka (and colleagues) and Polanyi tend to leave part of the epistemology of collaborative knowledge creation unaccounted for. As a remedy we introduce the notion of knowledge as “unfathomable” (Bartley, 1987), rooted in the Popperian idea of “objective knowledge” (Popper...

Can we have it both ways?