BACKGROUND The importance of using research evidence in decisionmaking at the policy level has been increasingly recognized. However, knowledge brokering to engage researchers and policymakers in government and non-government organizations is challenging. This paper describes and evaluates the knowledge exchange processes employed by the Translational Research on Obesity Prevention in Communiti...

The Condorcet Jury Theorem (CJT), which provides a justification for democracy, is based on voters who are imperfectly informed insofar as they know the correct policy with a probability of less than one but greater than one-half. We reassess the consequences of the CJT for democracy when extension of the franchise adds equal numbers of non-distinguishable informed and uninformed voters to the ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

In this work we formulate and treat an extension of the Imitation from Observations problem. is a generalisation well-known Learning problem where state-only demonstrations are considered. our treatment extend scope to feature-only which could arguably be described as partial observations. Therewith mean that full state decision makers unknown imitation must take place on basis limited set feat...

Occupations are segregated with respect to sex, even in modern, egalitarian societies. There strong pressures eliminate segregation and therefore reasons correctly theorize why persists. The dominant view underpinning most public policies is essentially that environmental factors nudge women men into different occupational paths. Nudging, however, ignores research suggesting psychological trait...