A human-rights-based analysis can be a useful tool for the scientific community and policy makers as they develop codes of conduct, harmonized standards, and national policies for data sharing. The human rights framework provides a shared set of values and norms across borders, defines rights and responsibilities of various actors involved in data sharing, addresses the potential harms as well ...

Research on the neurobiological and behavioral effects of oxytocin (OT), as well as on its possible therapeutic applications, has intensified in the past decade. Accurate determination of peripheral OT levels is essential to reach meaningful conclusions and to motivate, support and inform clinical interventions. Different, but concordant, methods for measuring plasma OT have been developed over...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach to regulatory oversight of the commercial nuclear power industry that is riskinformed and performance-based. While these concepts can, and have been, used in rulemaking and licensing activities, this paper focuses on the regulatory oversight activities of Assessment, Inspection, and Enforcement. The paper provides a discussion of the deter...

To interact effectively, agents must enter into commitments. What should an agent do when these commitments conflict? We describe Coco, an approach for reasoning about which specific commitments apply to specific parties in light of general types of commitments, specific circumstances, and dominance relations among specific commitments. Coco adapts answer-set programming to identify a maximal s...

Agents can use commitments and self-control to achieve their normative objectives and avoid spontaneous temptations. However, due to weak resolve they may also forgo commitment opportunities and succumb to temptations later. Anticipating such failures, agents may use strategies such as promises and deadlines to help themselves make proper commitments later. We identify such behaviors via a thre...