INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Patient preferences with respect to available therapies must be taken into account if the quality of care of patients with Crohn´s disease is to be improved. The objective was to develop the IMPLICA preferences questionnaire for Crohn´s disease patients treated with biological therapies. METHODS As per standard methodology, the questionnaire was developed in Spanish...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the attitudes and preferences regarding future contact with donation offspring among identity-release donors of oocytes or sperm. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING University-based fertility clinics in Sweden. PATIENT(S) A total of 210 women and men were questioned 5-8 years after their donation of oocytes or sperm. INTERVENTION(S) Questionnaires given t...

Rather than having precise preferences consistent with a single utility function over commodity bundles, individuals are assumed to have imprecise preferences with a set of possible utility functions, one of which is the true one. When attention is devoted to the task the set of utility functions contracts, making preferences more precise. This increases the individual’s willingness to pay for ...

The feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation was held in 1971 under the auspices of the Linguistics Research Center of The University of Texas at Austin with support from KAFB. The participants were twenty experts in the areas of linguistics and computer software, representing a wide range of opinions on the feasibility of MT. Among the recommendations made in the report on...

Successful negotiation depends on understanding and responding to participants’ needs. Many negotiation approaches assume identical needs (e.g., minimizing costs) and do not take into account other preferences of the participants. However, preferences play a crucial role in the outcome of negotiations. Accordingly, we propose a negotiation framework where producer agents learn the preferences o...

We specify and compute equilibria of a dynamic policy-making game between a president and a legislature under insitutional rules that emulate those of the US Constitution. Policies are assumed to lie in a two-dimensional space in which one issue dimension captures systemic differences in partisan preferences, while the other summarizes non-partisan attributes of policy. In any period, the polic...

Experimental research shows that while most voters have some form of spatial preferences, individuals differ in the type of spatial preferences they have: many voters prefer candidates closer to themselves in a policy space (proximity voting), others prefer candidates that are simply on the same side of an issue as themselves (directional voting), and still others prefer those who will move pol...

The paper presents a tool for the creation of an electronic dictionary of multi-word proper names. Toposław uses graphs for the representation of inflectional and pragmatic variants of names. It cooperates with Morfeusz, a morphological analyser and generator for Polish words, and Multiflex, a cross-language morpho-syntactic generator of multi-word units. Our goal was to create a userfriendly t...

Different theories about the impact of aid make distinct predictions about citizens’ attitudes toward foreign aid in recipient countries. We investigate their preferences toward aid and government projects in order to examine these different theories. Are citizens indifferent between development projects funded by their own government or by foreign aid donors? To address this, in an experiment ...

UNLABELLED Acoustic vocal analysis is a simple and fast method that allows to differentiate normal from changed voices. There are few studies that analyze normal acoustic vocal parameters at different age ranges in children. AIMS To establish normative acoustic parameters of children's voice aged 4 to 12 years. METHODS Two hundred and forty children were divided into four sub-groups by age:...