This comment on Paul Dolan's essay, 'Developing methods that really do value the "Q" in the QALY,' seconds his critique of current preference-based methods of valuing health states but disputes both his assumption that health states should be appraised by their bearing on well-being and his conclusion that the bearing of health states on well-being should be measured in terms of subjective expe...

In a graph G = (V, E) provided with a linear order ”<” on V , a chordless path with vertices a, b, c, d and edges ab, bc, cd is called an obstruction if both a < b and d < c hold. Chvátal [2] defined the class of perfectly orderable graphs (i.e., graphs possessing an acyclic orientation of the edges such that no obstruction is induced) and proved that they are perfect. We introduce here the cla...

Clickers might own a bright future in China if properly introduced although they have not been widely acknowledged as an effective tool to facilitate English learning and teaching in Chinese contexts. By randomly selecting participants from undergraduates in a university in China over four academic years, this study aims to identify the impact of clickers on college English listening and speaki...

Several automatic phonetic alignment tools have been proposed in the literature. They usually rely on pre-trained speaker-independent models to align new corpora. Their drawback is that they cover a very limited number of languages and might not perform properly for different speaking styles. This paper presents a new tool for automatic phonetic alignment available online. Its specificity is th...