Social Harmony in Decision Making: Costs and Benefits in Chinese Society

New treatments: costs, benefits and decision-making procedures.

One hallmark of modern medicine is the ever-rising cost of providing life-saving or life-extending treatments. Advances in medical care and the ability to improve the duration and quality of life, combined with the expectations of both doctors and patients that all new modalities of treatment developed will be implemented in everyday practice, are the major reasons for modern medicine's becomin...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

SAFESIDE: A computer-aided procedure for integrating benefits and costs in roadside safety intervention decision making

Collisions with dangerous roadside obstacles and rollovers are responsible for many injuries and deaths in highways worldwide. International crash data indicate that roadside characteristics contribute to more than half of all run-off-road injury crashes (RORIC) involving serious injury or death. Furthermore, roadside geometric characteristics are believed to be the leading cause of rollover in...

Social Signaling in Decision Making

Nonverbal communication is an important and often underestimated instrument in social interactions. The paralinguistic elements of speech, which are described in common speech as ”tone of voice”, are one channel of the nonverbal communication. They, together with conversational dynamics, are a very powerful measurement for interactions, without looking at the content of the conversation. A subs...