in this commentary, we argue that financial incentives are only one of many key components that employers should consider when designing and implementing a workplace wellness program. strategies such as social encouragement and providing token rewards may also be effective in improving awareness and engagement. should employers choose to utilize financial incentives, they should tailor them to ...

Online instructors play a critical role in online student success, and need various forms of institutional support to succeed teaching. This article describes the creation, validation, results Instructor Support Survey (OISS) consisting six sections (a) Technology technical (b) Pedagogical (Course Development Teaching) (c) Education Academic Services (d) Institutional Policies for Education, (e...

43 IAM HONORED to be the inaugural contributor to the Journal of Palliative Medicine series on palliative care pioneers. I look back at the path that I and many of my peers like Andy Billings, Jim Hallenbeck, Robert Arnold, Charles von Gunten, and other leaders have traveled, and I am both awed and humbled by how far we have come in such a short period of time. I was a rather typical, academica...

This paper describes a novel approach based on online unsupervised adaptation and clustering using temporal-difference (TD) learning. Temporal-difference learning is a reinforcement learning technique and is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives when interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. The adaptation progres...