On Promise Problems: A Survey

2006 ◽  
pp. 254-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oded Goldreich
Keyword(s):  
Promise Problems

A Thirty Year Old Conjecture about Promise Problems

2012 ◽  
pp. 473-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hughes ◽  
A. Pavan ◽  
Nathan Russell ◽  
Alan Selman
Keyword(s):  
Promise Problems

Potenziamento della capacitÀ mentale? Dalla medicalizzazione della cognizione alla farmacologizzazione delle routine mental life

2012 ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Catherine Coveney ◽  
Jonathan Gabe ◽  
Simon Williams
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cognitive Enhancement ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement ◽  
Promise Problems ◽  
Over Time

Sociological engagement with debates around the promise, problems and prospects of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancment is still at an early stage. In this paper we attempt to explore how the prospect of cognitive enhancement can be understood using existing sociological concepts of medicalisation, biomedicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Drawing on two case studies, that of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and the use of modafinil to enhance alertness, we discuss the idea of enhancement medicine and the use of cognitive enhancers outside of medical authority. We suggest that whilst all three of the above concepts shed important light on these developments, overlapping and converging as they do in various ways, pharmaceuticalisation provides a more precise sociological term of reference. We end with some suggestions for a research agenda for tracing and tracking trends in pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement over time.

scholarly journals Cohesiveness in promise problems

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-369
Author(s):  
Ulrike Brandt ◽  
Hermann K.-G. Walter
Keyword(s):  
Promise Problems

scholarly journals Evidence-Based Policing and Fatal Police Shootings: Promise, Problems, and Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 687 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
Police Shootings ◽  
Police Encounters ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Promise Problems ◽  
American Police ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Evidence Based Policing ◽  
New Evidence

The promise of evidence-based policing is to reduce harm with better research for targeting, testing, and tracking police actions. The problems of using evidence-based policing to reduce harm are found in the emotional dimensions of ethics and risk. These problems are most pronounced with fatal police shootings, where the risks of injury to American police are often framed as a zero-sum choice in relation to the ethics of taking citizens’ lives. Yet evidence-based policing offers good prospects for reframing the debate over fatal police shootings, in ways that could reduce harm to both police and citizens. This volume offers substantial new evidence for initiatives at all levels of U.S. government that could help to save lives in police encounters with citizens. Putting that evidence to work remains the major challenge facing the American police.

Quality Circles: Promise, Problems, and Prospects in Florida

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Quality Circles ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
Promise Problems

Productivity improvement is a national priority in the 1980's. The dramatic spread of quality circles (QCs) demonstrates that they are perhaps the most popular technique to achieve this goal. There are, however, few systematic studies of these programs. It is important, therefore, not to draw sweeping, premature, and possibly erroneous conclusions based on uncritical acceptance of claims made by QC advocates and critics. This analysis adds to the limited data base on quality circles by exploring their use in Florida government. Placing Florida in the context of national developments, it examines the QC form, problems encountered with it, and approaches used to address these difficulties. This is followed by an analysis of QCs in the state's public sector. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for current and future QC programs.

scholarly journals The complexity of promise problems with applications to public-key cryptography

1984 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shimon Even ◽  
Alan L. Selman ◽  
Yacov Yacobi
Keyword(s):  
Public Key Cryptography ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Promise Problems
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