E-speak was the technology base for HP’s E-services initiative, which was announced in 1999. It was designed to be a scalable distributed system, and it met all of its design goals. Although it’s no longer around as a supported product, the lessons we learned, both positive and painful, may be helpful to others.

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Research describing healthcare professionals' conversations about issues of dying and death with chronically ill geriatric patients is rare, especially in Europe. The study reviews the willingness and difficulties of physicians and nurses to speak about dying and death with geriatric patients. METHOD Interview study with 14 physicians and 17 nurses. RESULTS The majorit...

abstract in this study, willingness to pay of 180 wheat farmers in khorasan razavi province to remove weeds in different options and different growth stages in 2008 through logarithmic regression was investigated. the results indicated that farmer's total annual income, being perennial of weeds and dummy variables percent of removing weeds in growth different stages, had positive and significan...

Laypersons' belief in free will may foster a sense of thoughtful reflection and willingness to exert energy, thereby promoting helpfulness and reducing aggression, and so disbelief in free will may make behavior more reliant on selfish, automatic impulses and therefore less socially desirable. Three studies tested the hypothesis that disbelief in free will would be linked with decreased helping...