The spring and summer of 1999 once again saw the national political debate turn to issues about health care financing and administration. Political pundits noted that health care is a steady voter concern and that the mostly partisan debate had important political significance for next year's congressional campaigns. [FN1] Largely at issue were the rights and relations patients/consumers would ...

Four experiments investigated risk taking and underlying information use in 13–16 and 17-19 year-old adolescents and in adults, using a novel dynamic risk-taking task, the Columbia Card Task (CCT). We investigated risk taking under differential involvement of affective versus deliberative processes with two versions of the CCT, constituting the most direct test of a dualsystem explanation of ad...

The authors investigated risk taking and underlying information use in 13- to 16- and 17- to 19-year-old adolescents and in adults in 4 experiments, using a novel dynamic risk-taking task, the Columbia Card Task (CCT). The authors investigated risk taking under differential involvement of affective versus deliberative processes with 2 versions of the CCT, constituting the most direct test of a ...

BACKGROUND High uptake of vaccinations is crucial for disease prevention. Although overall uptake of childhood immunisations is high in the United Kingdom (UK), pockets of lower uptake remain. Novel systematic methods have not been employed when reviewing the qualitative literature examining parents' vaccination decisions. AIMS We aimed to conduct a qualitative systematic review of studies in...

Contingency management is an effective treatment for drug addiction. The current explanation for its success is rooted in alternative reinforcement theory. We suggest that alternative reinforcement theory is inadequate to explain the success of contingency management and produce a model based on demand curves that show how little the monetary rewards offered in this treatment would affect drug ...

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 ...

We consider multi-agent argumentation, where each agent’s view of the arguments is encoded as an argumentation framework (AF). Then we study deliberative processes than can occur on this basis. We think of a deliberative process as taking the shape of a stepwise aggregation of a single joint AF, and we are interested in reasoning about the space of possible outcomes. The only restriction we pla...

This paper examines the problem of how a mobile robot may coordinate among multiple, possibly conflicting deliberative processes for reasoning about object interactions in a soccer domain. This paper frames deliberative coordination as an instance of the algorithm selection problem and describes a novel framework by which a mobile robot may learn to coordinate its deliberative reasoning in resp...