With the amazing successes that have been reported over the past 10 years, it is easy for researchers in therapeutic ultrasound to be seduced by the appeal of biological and clinical studies but understanding the biology alone is insufficient. All good science requires repeatability, and developing a successful therapy is no different. It is imperative from both a scientific and a commercial pe...

Security testing is very important to assure a certain level of reliability in a system. On the system level, security testing has to guarantee that security requirements such as confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability and non-repudiation hold. In this paper, we present an approach to system level security testing of service oriented systems that evaluates securi...

Extended story generation, such as the creation of soap opera stories, is a difficult and interesting problem for Artif icial Intelligence. We present here the first phase of the development of a program, UNIVERSE, to tell such stories. In particular, we introduce a method for creating universes of characters appropriate for extended story generation. This method concentrates on the need to kee...

How do physicians handle informing patients of their diagnoses and how much information do patients really want? How do registered nurses view both sides of this question? Three questionnaires were constructed and administered in a mid-size hospital in New York state. Physicians and nurses underestimate the number of patients who want detailed information. Patients who earn more than average, h...

Several scholars have suggested that honesty, honor, fairness and other traditional values play a vital role in making capitalism and democracy function (Fukuyama 1995; Zak 2008). Others have recognized that capitalism and democracy reward greed and reinforce antisocial manipulators (Hayes-Roth 2011a). Some believe that enterprises can reconstruct themselves profitably around the principles of ...

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing outcome, some report their private information truthfully or at l...

DESPITE this being Election year, one suspects that readers of Mental Health may be not so much interested in an analysis of the political parties as with an analysis of themselves. Unfortunately, though there are books telling the analyst how to conduct an analysis, there are none telling the analysand1 how to do so. Freud, who was exceedingly fond of metaphor, likened the situation of the ana...