In a thought-provoking paper, Schuklenk and Smalling argue that no right to conscientious objection should be granted to medical professionals. First, they hold that it is impossible to assess either the truth of conscience-based claims or the sincerity of the objectors. Second, even a fettered right to conscientious refusal inevitably has adverse effects on the rights of patients. We argue tha...

The first part of this paper examines the practice of informed treatment decisions in the protective medical system in China today. The second part examines how health care professionals in China perceive and carry out their responsibilities when relaying information to vulnerable patients, based on the findings of an empirical study that I had undertaken to examine the moral experience of nurs...

In the Sincerity Sub-Challenge of the Interspeech ComParE 2016 Challenge, the task is to estimate user-annotated sincerity scores for speech samples. We interpret this challenge as a ranklearning regression task, since the evaluation metric (Spearman’s correlation) is calculated from the rank of the instances. As a first approach, Deep Neural Networks are used by introducing a novel error crite...

1 HERE are social practices and virtues which, if we are to characterize them, require us to mention the truth. This is not the same as mentioning what other people hold true (their beliefs), or just mentioning what we regard as true (our own beliefs). We may contrast in this respect two different virtues of truth, which may be labeled sincerity and accuracy. Sincerity (at the most basic level)...

A major critique against BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) approaches to the communication is that they require strong hypotheses such as sincerity, cooperation, ... on the mental states of the agents (cf. for example [12], [13], [5]). The aim of this paper is to give an operator remeding this defect to a logic BDI. Thus we study communication between heterogeneous agents via the notion of ground...

The field of Computational Paralinguistics is rapidly growing and is of interest in various application domains ranging from biomedical engineering to forensics. The INTERSPEECH ComParE challenge series has a field-leading role, introducing novel problems with a common benchmark protocol for comparability. In this work, we tackle all three ComParE 2016 Challenge corpora (Native Language, Sincer...

muslim scholars differ widely on the meaning of the pure word ‘lā illāha illa allāh’ (there is no god expect for god) and its indication to monotheism. a number of possibilities have been raised pertaining to this exalted verse and if some of them are accepted as true, the word tawhīd will not signify complete unity and monotheism. after thoroughly examining the meanings claimed for the words e...

This study examines the concept of mortality from perspective Imam Junaid Al-Baghdadi and its relevance in counteracting religious radicalism. research is library using primary data book Rasail descriptive-analytical techniques analyzing data. found that there are three levels view Al-Baghdadi; first, mortal towards morals through persistence against lust consistently avoiding actions violate n...