PURPOSE Career advancement in academic medicine often hinges on the ability to garner research funds. The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) R01 award is the "gold standard" of an independent research program. Studies show inconsistencies in R01 reviewers' scoring and in award outcomes for certain applicant groups. Consistent with the NIH recommendation to examine potential bias in R01 pee...

This paper reviews critiques of the Human Development Report over the last twenty years. The critiques are mostly related to the choice of indicators, to high correlation of HDI components, functional form of the HDI including normalization of component indicators, aggregation vs. multiplication, and issues related to weighting. A thorough analysis of the critiques leads us to a proposal for mo...

in his critique of purge reason, kant insists that the human understanding is only able to know phenomena. however, in critique of practical reason, he proves the objective reality of god, freedom and immortality of soul. at first, the result of the two critiques seems to be at odds with each other, with kant himself calling the problem, the dilemma of philosophy of critiquing. by putting forwa...


 BEN-AMOS Dan. Folklore Concepts: Histories and Critiques. Edited by Henry Glassie Elliott Oring. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020, xxi + 234 pàgines.

A series of high-profile critiques of Bayesian models of cognition have recently sparked controversy. These critiques question the contribution of rational, normative considerations in the study of cognition. The present article takes central claims from these critiques and evaluates them in light of specific models. Closer consideration of actual examples of Bayesian treatments of different co...

Critiquing techniques provide an easy way for users to feedback their preferences over one or several attributes of the products in a conversational recommender system. While unit critiques only allow users to critique one attribute of the products each time, a well-generated set of compound critiques enables users to input their preferences on several attributes at the same time, and can poten...