I wish I could recommend this book more warmly. There is an enormous amount that might be helpfully written on the subject ot" personal relationships,?the source of perhaps our greatest happiness and our greatest misery in this world. And modern psychology, based as it is on the intensive study of individuals in their emotional reactions to other people from babyhood upwards, has a wealth of li...

Conjoint analysis is one of the most celebrated tools in Marketing, and its widespread use (not just widespread publication history) has been one of the greatest success stories in Marketing/Business of the academic and practitioner interface. In this article, I provide a wish-list, of sorts, summarizing current cutting-edge research that is trying to fill some holes, and other issues that I "w...

The FKG theorem says that the POSITIVE LATTICE CONDITION, an easily checkable hypothesis which holds for many natural families of events, implies POSITIVE ASSOCIATION, a very useful property. Thus there is a natural and useful theory of positively dependent events. There is, as yet, no corresponding theory of negatively dependent events. There is, however, a need for such a theory. This paper, ...

This paper reports about experiments with GermaNet as a resource within domain specific document analysis. The main question to be answered is: How is the coverage of GermaNet in a specific domain? We report about results of a field test of GermaNet for analyses of autopsy protocols and present a sketch about the integration of GermaNet inside XDOC.1 Our remarks will contribute to a GermaNet us...

The focus of this talk is on the applications and techniques currently used in government screening venues and on anticipated future applications. I will begin with a discussion of how and why the polygraph is used in a screening interview and touch on some of the newer techniques in deception detection using body movements, vocal and verbal behavior that are now being tested. We'll then look a...

Citation: Rodríguez-Prat A, Monforte-Royo C and Balaguer A (2018) Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in Advanced Patients. Front. Pharmacol. 9:294. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00294 Ethical Challenges for an Understanding of Suffering: Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and the Wish to Hasten Death in A...

BACKGROUND Patients with advanced conditions may present a wish to hasten death. Assessing this wish is complex due to the nature of the phenomenon and the difficulty of conceptualising it. AIM To identify and analyse existing instruments for assessing the wish to hasten death and to rate their reported psychometric properties. DESIGN Systematic review based on PRISMA guidelines. The COnsen...