OBJECTIVES The authors examined the impact of the wish to die on mortality over a 5-year period, stratified by baseline depressive status (i.e., major, minor, and no depression diagnosis). The authors also examined whether a depression care management intervention would minimize these relationships. DESIGN Longitudinal analyses of the practice-randomized Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care ...

Although suicide has traditionally carried a negative sanction in Western societies, this is now being challenged, and while there remains substantial public concern surrounding youth and elder suicide, there is a paradoxical push to relax the prohibition under certain circumstances. Central to the arguments behind this are the principles of respect for autonomy and the importance of rationalit...

We present Wish, a system that uses expert members of an online crowd to amplify a user’s ability to carry out complex creative tasks. When presented with an incomplete or rough draft of creative content (for example, writing, programming, or art), Wish finds and recruits an expert to suggest a possible realization of the user’s vision. Wish contributes a new approach to crowdsourcing complex w...

Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to my two supervisors, Yves Pochet and Laurence Wolsey. It is difficult to imagine somebody more available for discussion than Yves Pochet. Even when he was crumbling under administrative work, he always had time to spend for discussing my work in progress. Laurence Wolsey have been a continuous source of inspiration and intellectual motivati...

The ability to summarize and abstract information will be an essential part of intelligent behavior in consumer devices. However, even for the emerging area of video content analysis, user preferences on summarization have not been explored. This paper reports on a panel which asked: who, why and when summarization is needed; what information should be summarized; and what forms should summarie...

An algorithm to automatically compute any one-loop amplitude for all momentum, color, and helicity configurations of the external particles is presented. It has been implemented using the tools HELAC for the evaluation of tree-level off-shell currents, CutTools for OPP-reduction and OneLOop for the evaluation of one-loop scalar integrals. It proves to be able to deal with at least all sub-proce...

I review the development of UV and EUV astronomy, covering the spectral range from 5 to 300 nm, with emphasis on sky surveys for discrete sources. I discuss studies which resulted in lists of sources observed by imaging and deliberately omit most spectroscopic studies. Technical issues, such as detector and telescope developments, are treated separately from descriptions of specific missions an...

This is a comprehensive text introducing the fundamentals of the two major fields of decision support systems (DSS) and knowledge-based systems (KBS) and how synergistic merging of the two can result in a new generation of DSS: (KBDSS). On the whole it is a refreshing change from most articles and books written on this topic which are little more than wish lists and proposals. Instead, many exa...