It has been shown that clinical decision support systems (CDSS) improve both patient care outcomes‚ reduce the cost of care (Berner & La Lande‚ 2007). CDSSs are interactive expert systems‚ which use embedded clinical knowledge to help health professionals analyse patient data and make decisions regarding diagnosis‚ prevention‚ and treatment of health problems (Wu‚ Lu and Duan‚ 2008). A systematic review of CDSSs found that over 90% of the systems significantly improved clinical care (Kawamoto‚ Del
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Is there a genuine distinction between observable and unobservable entities? Why does it matter? How‚ and why‚ might one distinguish between theoretical and observational statements in science? I have decided to tackle both these questions because they feed into and relate to one another. They emphasize different aspects of a prevalent debate‚ all aspects of which I wish to touch on. Whether the question of a distinction between observable vs unobservable entities is synonymous to the question
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White‚ Metahistory 1973 : emplotment‚ argument‚ ideal; translates problem of historical explanation into problem of representation. -traces romance-tragedy-comedy- IRONY -search for multiple‚ openenended alternatives—that is a sophisticated EPISTEMOLOGY -focus not to study change in framework‚ but focus to study change itself INTERPRETIVE ANTHROPOLOGY Definition : doing and writing ethnography Anthropology contribution : 1. Capturing cultural diversity 2. cultural critique of ourselves
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On The Threshold: Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict Part 1 Thomas F. Homer-Dixon Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies‚ University of Toronto International Security‚ Vol. 16‚ No. 2 (Fall 1991)‚ pp. 76-116 {draw:rect} We can narrow the scope of this research problem by focusing on how environmental change affects conflict‚ rather than security‚ but still the topic is too vast. Environmental change may contribute to conflicts as diverse as war‚ terrorism
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Timothy Williamson is a contemporary British philosopher that presents a new concept of rationality. This concept refers to a direction of mind as mental to the external world that is the source of whole possible truth which the external world become a part of mind. So‚ Williamson tries to combine between subject and object (man and world) by neutral epistemological method in a structure doesn’t accept analysis. Therefore knowledge covert from being prior conditions to be series of virtual assertions
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Notes: Judith Butler – Gender Trouble PREFACE (1999) Gender Trouble has been received as a “provocative ‘intervention’ in feminist theory” and as a “founding text of queer theory.” “In 1989 I was most concerned to criticize a pervasive heterosexual assumption in feminist literary theory. I sought to counter those views that made presumptions about the limits and propriety of gender and restricted the meaning of gender to received notions of masculinity and femininity. It was and remains
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Printing‚ 2006 * Leo Tolstoy‚ The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy‚ 2009 * Bain‚ Andre (1967) ‘The Ontology of the Photographic Image’ What is Cinema?‚ vol.1. Berkley: University of California press‚ 9 – 16. * A.R. Duckworth‚ Influential Theorists: Andre Bazin – The Ontology Of The Photographic Image‚ The motley view‚ 2008 http://ardfilmjournal.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/influential-theorists-andre-bazin-%E2%80%93-the-ontology-of-the-photographic-image/ * Daily Mirror statement in full‚ CNN‚ 2004 http://web.archive
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Matrix Field Definition Historical Developments Schools Of Thought Key Contributors Principal Issues Epistemology Epistemology is the investigation into the grounds and nature of knowledge. Found in the 1800’s From Old Greece forward‚ Plato‚ Socrates‚ and developmental ideas. Rationalism means the knowledge can be acquired through the use of reason and empiricism
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that new knowledge and greater insight allow travelers to gain wisdom and solidify a coherent view of the world. Yet‚ experiences through journeys can result in new knowledge clashing with preconceived beliefs‚ potentially disabling the traveler’s epistemology. Furthermore‚ a traveler cannot ignore this conflicting knowledge and return to his prior self at the conclusion of his journey. These themes are explored in Robert Gray’s poems Flame and Dangling Wire and Arrivals and Departures‚ an excerpt from
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new ideas being created‚ and old ones being updated to better fit the changes of society.One a such question that has‚ and will stay with humanity forever is “How do we know what we know to be correct?”. This stems from the philosophical field of epistemology‚ meaning the study of knowledge. This is where the works or David Hume and René Descartes come into play. Hume was a Scottish philosopher whose epistemological work revolved around the idea that our senses relay the truth to us. Descartes believed
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