Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...

Measurement uncertainty plays a very important role ensuring validity of decision-making procedures, since it is the main source incorrect decisions in conformity assessment. The guidelines given by actual Standards allow one to take decision or non-conformity, according limit and measurement associated measured value. Due uncertainty, risk wrong always present, also give indications on how eva...

Background: The purpose of the present study was to assess the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions on the anxiety among thalassemic children undergoing venipuncture. Patients and Methods: This was a clinical trial on 60 thalassemic children aged 6-12 years undergoing venipuncture. Children were randomly divided into three groups: control, bubble making and regular breathing exercise....

Costly general decision procedures can be sped up by incorporating eecient decision procedures for restricted classes of constraints. We show how to make use of these specialized decision procedures by constructing a network of cooperating decision procedures. Of course, in order to gain eeciency the expensive general decision procedures should not be called as far as possible. But they should ...

Jury trials play a centrally important role in the law, and they are also of interest to psychologists. The manner in which individual jurors perceive, interpret, and remember evidence, as well as the group processes involved in jury deliberation, can be described in terms of fundamental cognitive and social psychological concepts. Juries provide a real-world laboratory for examining theoretica...

PROMETHEE refers to a collection of methods of ranking in the field of multi-criteria decision making. These methods are characterized by conceptual simplicity and practical applicability. However, the nature of phenomena involving decision-making in real world leads us to use fuzzy method of preference ranking. The most common criticism on mathematical ranking procedures is that they tend to d...