JAYASHREE SUBRAHMONIA IBM T.J. Watson Research, P.O. Box 218 / Route 134, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, U. S. A. E-mail: [email protected] This paper addresses the problem of improving the performance of an online, writer-independent, large-vocabulary, unconstrained, handwriting recognition system by clustering writers with similar writing styles. Recognition performance is enhanced by identify...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To draw out the similar complexities faced by staff around truth-telling in a children's and adult population and to interrogate the dilemmas faced by staff when informal carers act to block truth-telling. BACKGROUND Policy encourages normalisation of death, but carers may act to protect or prevent the patient from being told the truth. Little is known about the impact on ...

Accompanied with various opinions across cultures, truth telling is a major debate in bioethics. Many studies have focused on attitudes toward truth disclosure. We intend to review several relevant research studies, and discuss the issue through a clinical case consultation. It seems that while "the right to know" is emphasized in bioethics, in some cultural contexts, health professionals fear ...

There has been extensive research on children's moral evaluation of lying in prosocial situations. Current knowledge regarding the concept of lying has been derived from studies showing that cultural differences exist, whereby non-Western children tend to rate lie telling more positively than Western children do. These findings suggest that there are different views about whether children shoul...

Peer-prediction [18] is a (meta-)mechanism which, given any proper scoring rule, produces a mechanism to elicit privately-held, non-verifiable information from self-interested agents. Formally, truth-telling is a strict Nash equilibrium of the mechanism. Unfortunately, there may be other equilibria as well (including uninformative equilibria where all players simply report the same fixed signal...