Unrealistic responses to realistic problems with missing information: what are important barriers?

To What Extent Vital Signs Are Important to Medical Toxicologists When Conflicts Arise in Defining Toxidroms

Realistic and Unrealistic Expectations

DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS considerable interest has developed in the possibility that some of the myocardial damage consequent to coronary occlusion may be averted.' To explore this possibility there is a critical need for techniques capable of testing the hypothesis that a given intervention is capable of protecting ischemic myocardium. Since it has long been appreciated that myocardial ischem...

Electronic health records: what are the most important barriers?

INTRODUCTION The process of design and adoption of electronic health records may face a number of barriers. This study aimed to compare the importance of the main barriers from the experts' point of views in Iran. METHODS This survey study was completed in 2011. The potential participants (62 experts) included faculty members who worked in departments of health information technology and indi...

What is unrealistic optimism?

Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states, whether they are false, and whether they are epistemically irrational. We also ask to what extent unrealistically optimistic cognitive states are fixed. Based on the classic and recent empirical literature ...

What are the Most Important Features to Individualize: Extending Knowledge Tracing to Individualize What is Important

One traditional way of modeling student knowledge is Corbett and Anderson Knowledge Tracing [2]. Knowledge Tracing model learns a set of four parameters per skill known in the field as 1) Prior (allowing for the modeling of the average chanced that students know a given skills before starting with the system), 2) Learn (different skills could have different learning rates), 3) Guess (some skill...