FAMILIES, TEAMS, INSTITUTIONS. Group-dynamic endeavours

Teams Collaboration with Domestic and International Institutions

Preparing families and institutions to manage anaphylaxis

Most (57-78%) of the recorded anaphylactic reactions in children occur at home and, second, in school or during school activities (5-22%). Children with food allergy are at the highest risk for death, especially if they also suffer from asthma, as most of the deaths attributed to anaphylaxis are due to severe unresponsive bronchospasm. There is a need of education of families and schools on how...

Preparing families and institutions to manage anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis is a pediatric emergency, but most cases occur in the community outside a healthcare setting. It is therefore essential that the families, schools, nurseries and other child care professionals understand how to avoid, recognise and manage severe allergic reactions. Food allergy is the most common cause of anaphylactic reactions in children. If children are to avoid the food allergen...

Dynamic Institutions for Teamwork

We present a dynamic electronic institutions approach for teamwork. In this model, agent teams are designed and deployed on-thefly so as to met the requirements of the task at hand. The result is a new form of electronic institution that is created dynamically out of existing components. We also introduce a case-based learning mechanism to form new agent teams by reusing complete or partial tea...

Political Institutions and Group Identity

Empirically, the formation of political attitudes has been strongly linked to the concept of group identification. Classifications such as race, gender, religion and ethnicity have been shown to be sharp predictors of many aspects of political life including who turns out to vote, how people vote, and the issues that are important to people. Furthermore, many topics that are of interest to poli...