The creation, management and dissemination of bibliographic information is a common task for almost all people working in a research environment, and it also is a (often weak) way of knowledge management. Current tools and methods are either centered on the process of document preparation using bibliographic references, or on the aspect of creating annotations and/or relationships describing bi...

Different readers read differently. This simple insight is the basis for all the work in distributive evaluation, a model that rejects “true score” and accepts individual variation in scores, rates, or other values placed on the same text. However, as this bibliography of research shows, writing faculty and WPAs who have researched and implemented distributive evaluation systems have moved in m...

This paper extends prior work on knowledge consolidation and the stability-plasticity problem within the context of a Lifelong Machine Learning (LML) system. A contextsensitive multiple task learning (csMTL) neural network is used as a consolidated domain knowledge store. Prior work has demonstrated that a csMTL network, in combination with task rehearsal, can retain previous task knowledge whe...

Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forced sterilization, mandatory screening of vulnerable populations, detention of people with infectious diseases, and the quarantine and social isolation of “sick” people or communities. Until recently, the va...