Autonomy is a prime issue on robotics field and it is closely related to decision making. Last researches on decision making for social robots are focused on imitating humans’ mind for taking decisions. Following this approach, we propose a motivational system for decision making using internal (drives) and external stimuli for choosing the right action. Actions will be selected from a finite s...

Current research and policy on maternal and child health-care in Eritrea and Ethiopia focus primarily on female education and employment, while little attention is placed on women’s decision-making autonomy. However, the role of women’s decision-making in reproductive health cannot be overemphasized. In this paper, different dimensions of women’s decision-making autonomy and their relationship ...

John Coggon and José Miola The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 70 / Issue 03 / November 2011, pp 523 ­ 547 DOI: 10.1017/S0008197311000845, Published online: 17 November 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0008197311000845 How to cite this article: John Coggon and José Miola (2011). AUTONOMY, LIBERTY, AND MEDICAL DECISION­MAKING. The Cambridge Law Journal, 70, pp 52...

Kahana, the diagnosis was late, and we don’t know whether timely investigations (CT scan, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, etc) at the first onset of thoracic symptoms might have changed the course. But, certainly, hemoptysis is not an underevaluable symptom, especially in smokers or former smokers . 40 years of age, even with normal chest radiographic findings, as also shown.2– 4 Reporting his case, D...

Autonomy, often associated with an open and reflective evaluation of experience, is sometimes confused with reactance, which indicates resistance to persuasion attempts. Two studies examined a path model in which autonomy and reactance predicted motivation following the provision of anonymous or source-identified health-risk information, via the mediation of perceived threat to decision-making ...

In Romania local autonomy is administrative and financial. If local financial resources are not independent from the state budget and they continue to depend on it exclusively and if financial independence remains only a target which has not been materialized in practice, then the administrative autonomy of the communes, towns and counties will not yield the expected results and will still be l...

OBJECTIVE Longitudinal comparison of mother and adolescent agreement regarding decision-making autonomy for adolescents with and without spina bifida (SB). METHODS Forty-two mother-adolescent dyads of adolescents with SB and 55 comparison dyads reported on who was responsible for decision-making across five waves of data collection, beginning at age 8 or 9 years through age 16 or 17 years. ...

BACKGROUND Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in destruction of the tissue wall between the vagina and bladder. Although obstetric fistula is directly caused by prolonged obstructed labor, many other factors indirectly increase fistula risk. Some research suggests that many women in rural Malawi have limited autonomy and decision-making po...