To better understand farmers’ refusal to pay agricultural water fees under the current policy in rural China and their corresponding negative emotions, this paper applies mental accounting, a behavioral economics framework, to explore how the governmental policies of reform of rural taxes and fees, direct agricultural subsidy programs, and agricultural water fees individually influence farmers’...

The purpose of the research programme introduced in this article is to provide new knowledge regarding comprehensive multisectoral approaches to breaking the negative cycle of poverty and mental ill-health. The programme undertakes an analysis of existing mental health policies in four African countries (Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia), and will carry out and evaluate interventions to assi...

In the last decade, various mobile applications have been developed to improve and measure spatial abilities using different tests tasks through augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), or embedded 3D viewers. The Mental Cutting Test (MCT) is one of most well-known popular for this purpose, but it needs a vast number (scenarios) effective practice measurement. We recently script-aided meth...

It has been over a decade since the government of Nepal adopted the National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) in 1997. This article analyses the current provision of fragmented mental health services in Nepal through case scenarios from Jumla in northwest and Janakpur in southeast Nepal, criticises the proposed mental health Act, discusses the reasons why the NMHP has not been implemented and sugges...

Temporally non-local measurements – single measurements yielding information about the state of a system at different instances – may provide a way to observe non-classical behavior in mental systems. The signature for such behavior is a violation of temporal Bell inequalities. We present such inequalities applicable to scenarios with two alternating mental states, such as in the perception of ...

We build a personalized conflict resolution agent that applies reasoning about mental attributes to processing of scenarios of multiagent interactions. Our approach is deployed in the domain of complaint analysis: rather advanced user interface and machine learning are required to advise a customer on how to prepare a valid complaint and to assist in its formal structured representation. We dem...

Recent studies in multi-agent systems are paying increasingly more attention to the paradigm of designing intelligent agents with human inspired concepts. One of the main cognitive concepts driving the core of many recent approaches in multi agent systems is shared mental models. In this paper, we propose an architecture for sharing mental models based on a new concept called semantic movement....

The theory of mental models accounts for the meanings of causal relations in daily life. They refer to seven temporallyordered deterministic relations between possibilities, which include causes, prevents, and enables. Various factors— forces, mechanisms, interventions— can enter into the interpretation of causal assertions, but they are not part of their core meanings. Mental models represent ...

To make program comprehension more effective, the analyst needs high-level information about the software under investigation, in particular information at the structure and the design levels. Visualization in Contexts allows the analyst to investigate software in terms of various contexts at different levels of abstraction and to form a variety of mental models of the software at hand. Moreove...