... dubious, version ofthe notion of silence, which invokes the idea ofthe ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of art is the beautiful,” which implies effects of unspeakableness, ... leaves silence in its wake Silence, administered by the artist, is part of a program of perceptual and cultural therapy, often on the model of shock therapy rather than persuasion Even if the artist’s ... be found in the radical wing ofthe mystical tradition (Cf., among Christian texts, the Mystica Theologica of Dionysius the Areopagite, the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing the writings of Jacob Boehme...
... and rationing at the extremes of life Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997, 156:185–189 12 Ethics Committee ofthe Society of Critical Care Medicine: Consensus statement ofthe Society of Critical Care ... proportion of resources than care ofthe non-surviving newborns [11] These investigators suggested that it may be more justifiable to ration intensive care for the very old than the very young Professional ... Editorial The sound of silence: rationing resources for critically ill patients Cook and Giacomini likely to benefit from treatment (eg not always the sickest) A survey ofthe Society of Critical...
... In the wells ofsilence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning, In the words that it was forming And the sign said, 'The words ofthe ... 'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound ofsilence And in the ... ofthe prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls.' And tenement halls.' And whisper'd inin the sounds ofsilence And whisper'd the sounds ofsilence ...
... that it can propagate a new culture of transparency with its proposed legislative reforms, but some experts believe they could simply reinforce the code ofsilence http://www.pwc.co.uk/assets/pdf/cyber-security-2013-technical-report.pdf ... worse.” Few would question the benefits of sharing information about security incidents, but the manner in which that information should be shared is still subject to debate The European Commission ... security analyst for the IT advisory firm Ovum If senior management learn of a breach more than 24 hours after it was first detected, for example, they may choose to keep quiet rather than face a...
... describe the motion ofthe person and his keys while he is holding them Then we will look at the motion ofthe person and his keys after he lets go of them Let's begin by looking at the motion ofthe ... with the system both with and without the NM (Section 4) Our analysis ofthe users’ subjective evaluation ofthe system indicates that users prefer the version ofthe system with the NM over the ... that the actual dialogue depends on the correctness ofthe user answers After the dialogue, users were asked to revise their essay and then the system moved on to the next problem The collected...
... the TODs, as we would expect, the expert had initiative most ofthe time (91% ofthe turns) However, ADs have closer to an equal sharing of initiative — the expert had initiative for 60% ofthe ... finance ADs and 51% ofthe turns in software ADs This is because in the ADs, the novice must communicate the details of his problem to the expert as well as the expert telling the novice what to ... students produced a higher percentage of words in the Socratic dialogues than in the didactic dialogues, and the percentage of words in thedialogue uttered by the student roughly correlated with...
... effort, as they not require much planning to the overall dialogue and to the joint task; •responsibility of supplying the needs ofthe communication partner: to keep an utterance going, one ofthe speakers ... One participant (the giver) must drive the other participant (the follower) from a starting point (the bus station) to the finish (the Castle) Figure 1: Maps used in the recording of REC corpus ... challenging them Then the task started and we recorded the psychophysiological outputs during the interaction which we called task condition Then the confederate started challenging the speaker with the...
... creates a gap in the circuit” Thus, the students are never given any indication of whether they have been understood or not The full policy acts differently depending on the analysis ofthe student ... interacting with the simulation environment The students had little prior knowledge ofthe domain The survey consisted of 63 questions on the 5-point Likert scale covering the lesson content, the graphical ... content ofthe bottom out is the same as in the baseline, except that the full system indicates clearly that the answer was incorrect or was not understood, e.g., “Not quite Here is the answer: the...
... Feature representation ofdialogue D1 Thedialogue quality features attempt to capture aspects ofthe naturalness ofthedialogue Rejections represents the number of times that the system plays special ... corpus of dialogues, the assignment of classes to each dialogue, the extraction of features from each dialogue, and our learning experiments Corpus: Our corpus consists of a set of 544 dialogues ... spoken dialogues hypotheses about the relevance of other types of knowledge, contributed to our features The acoustic, dialogue efficiency, and dialogue quality features are all numeric-valued The...
... In the prototype system the instances contain, as one of their attributes, specific details ofthe service they offer: in the case of a Travel Expert instance this will be a schedule; in the ... the place of departure, the destination, the day of departure and the departure time, and if a final check with the instance's database indicates that the combination of data is valid, then the ... narrow the enquiry to one ofthe areas available Although the system may request specific information (as in the turn above), the user may supply rather more than this Using the heuristics of the...
... Currently one ofthe standard methods for evaluating the quality of a SU is to run a user simulation on a real corpus and measure how often the action generated by the SU agrees with the action ... step further We measure the quality of user simulation models for both older and younger users, and show that these metrics are a good predictor ofthe behaviour of those two user types The structure ... confirmation) The combination of these × design choices yielded different dialogue systems Participants were asked to schedule a health care appointment with each ofthe systems, yielding a total of dialogues...
... ofthe dynamic processes that take place in dialogue as updates on the information states ofthedialogue participants In the remainder of this section, we formally introduce the syntax and the ... that keeps track ofthe state ofthe conversation Thedialogue gameboard (DGB), Ginzburg's particular version ofthe conversational scoreboard, plays a central role in his theory of context It can ... Thus, although the DGB attempts to represent the publicly accessible information at each state ofthe dialogue, it does so in terms ofthe collection of individual information states ofthe participants...