To teach or not to teach? Junior academics and the teaching-research relationship

To teach or not to teach.

To teach or not to teach? A cost-benefit analysis of teaching in private general practice.

OBJECTIVE To identify the financial costs and benefits associated with teaching in private general practice. DESIGN Cost-benefit analysis of teaching in private general practice across three levels of training--undergraduate medical training, prevocational training and general practice vocational training--using data from a 2007 survey of general practitioners in South Australia. SETTING AN...

Compression-only CPR-To teach or not to teach?

There is mounting evidence to support the concept of chest compression-only CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims, not least because it is simple and does not require rescuers to perform unpleasant mouth-to-mouth ventilation. The problem is that for a small, but important, minority of victims (children and those suffering an asphyxial or prolonged arrest) this is suboptimal treatment. ...

To Teach or not to Teach? Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Ad Hoc Teams Supplemental Material

This file complains supplementary material, consisting of a proof and the details of an algorithm, to accompany a paper that appears in the proceedings of AAMAS 2010. The main paper is available at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/ Papers/bib2html/b2hd-AAMAS2010-adhoc.html 3. PROOF OF THEORM 3.1 Theorem 3.1. It is never optimal for the teacher to pull Arm2. Proof. By induction on the number of ...

To teach or not to teach?: decision making under uncertainty in ad hoc teams

In typical multiagent teamwork settings, the teammates are either programmed together, or are otherwise provided with standard communication languages and coordination protocols. In contrast, this paper presents an ad hoc team setting in which the teammates are not pre-coordinated, yet still must work together in order to achieve their common goal(s). We represent a specific instance of this sc...