Acknowledgments I would like to thank both my promoters Peter van Roy and Sabri Skhiri for their insightful comments, critics and advices about my work during the whole academic year. I also want to thank Boris Mejias for his continuous support and for pushing me to make a talk at FOSDEM 2011. This talk really helped moved forward my work by making it more public and brought back a lot of inter...

Although prior studies have found that people generally underweight advice from others, such discounting of advice is not universal. Two studies examined the impact of task difficulty on the use of advice. In both studies, the strategy participants used to weigh advice varied with task difficulty even when it should have not. In particular, the results show that people overweight advice on diff...

In this paper, we present an analysis method, a set of rules, lexical resources dedicated to discourse relation identification, in particular for explanation analysis. The following relations are described with prototypical rules: instructions, advice, warnings, illustration, restatement, purpose, condition, circumstance, concession, contrast and some forms of causes. Rules are developed for Fr...

The builders of a knowledge-based expert system must ensure that the system will give its users accurate advice or correct solutions to their problems. The process of verifying that a system is accurate and reliable has two distinct components: checking that the knowledge base is correct, and verifying that the program can interpret and apply this information correctly. The first of these compo...

The existing literature on the role of underwriters has concentrated on underwriter certification, monitoring and marketing. However, these studies have apparently ignored the market timing role often ascribed to underwriters by practitioners. This study examines whether IPO timing is a function of the reputation of underwriters who have expertise in the financial market. In their advisory role...

Abstract What IR scholars refer to as “the international” gets constructed and performed specific ends, depending on time place. This results in a plurality of claims the international, subject historical variation. To bring such variation into view, this article shows how nineteenth-century internationality were tied particular conceptions legitimacy. The explores legitimation-by-experts throu...

introduction: among the united arab emirates (uae) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. this is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. this concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travelling abroad so that ...

In the March 2021, CADTH Canadian Drug Expert Committee recommended that onasemnogene abeparvovec be reimbursed for treatment of pediatric patients with 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) biallelic mutations in survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, if certain conditions were met. A request was received to develop clinical criteria could used identify SMA older than 180 days who are most likely ben...

AbstractAim: Fasting against medical advice (FAMA) is a major challenge for many physicians who treat patients with diabetes during the month of Ramadan. The significance of this phenomenon has not been evaluated in Muslim populations. The goal of this study was to assess the rate and consequences of FAMA in our high-risk patients.Methods: This is a retrospective case-control study. Patients we...