Changes in insecticide use, available pest control technologies, and local crop ecology together with severely depressed cotton prices place a renewed premium on Lygus control decision aids for Arizona cotton. As part of an on-going program to develop research-based Lygus management recommendations, we investigated the impact of various timings of chemical controls on Lygus population dynamics,...

BACKGROUND Relatives of people with dementia report that proxy decision-making is difficult and distressing. We systematically reviewed the literature about barriers and facilitators to family carers of people with dementia making proxy decisions, and interventions used to facilitate their decision-making. METHODS We searched electronic databases and references of included papers up to Februa...

We consider the problem of real-time, proactive decision making for dynamic and time-critical decision-events where the choices made for multiple, individual decisions over time determine the final decision outcome of an event. We posit that the quality of such individual decisions can be significantly improved if human decision makers are provided with decision aids in the form of dynamically ...

BACKGROUND Prenatal screening tests for Down syndrome (DS) are routine in many developed countries and new tests are rapidly becoming available. Decisions about prenatal screening are increasingly complex with each successive test, and pregnant women need information about risks and benefits as well as clarity about their values. Decision aids (DAs) can help healthcare providers support women i...

BACKGROUND The improvement of the quality of the evidence used in treatment decision-making is especially important in the case of patients with complicated disease processes such as HIV/AIDS for which multiple treatment strategies exist with conflicting reports of efficacy. Little is known about the perceptions of distinct groups of health care workers regarding various sources of evidence and...

Background Potential role of computerized decision support system on management of atrial fibrillation is not well understood. Objectives To systematically review studies that evaluate the effects of computerized decision support systems and decision aids on aspects pertaining to atrial fibrillation. Data Sources We searched Medline, Scopus and Cochrane database. Last date of search was 201...

This paper presents an application of neural networks to classify and predict the symptomatic status of HIV/AIDS patients. The purpose of this study is to apply an arti®cial neural network (ANN) to provide correct classi®cation of AIDS versus HIV status patients. An ANN model is developed using publicly available HIV/AIDS data in the AIDS Cost and Services Utilization Survey (ACSUS) datasets as...

The use of intelligent decision aids in Air Traffic Management is recommended to manage the exponential rise global air traffic. Consequently, trust, which one main drivers how Controllers such aids, has become an important area research. It been suggested that there a strong emotional influence formation Human-Human Trust, and it unclear if this paradigm valid for Human-Autonomy Trust. extent ...

To broadly synthesize literature regarding decision aids (DAs) supporting making about diet, physical activity, sleeping and substance use a scoping review was performed.

BACKGROUND Mental health policy makers encourage the development of electronic decision aids to increase patient participation in medical decision making. Evidence is needed to determine whether these decision aids are helpful in clinical practice and whether they lead to increased patient involvement and better outcomes. OBJECTIVE This study reports the outcome of a randomized controlled tri...