this paper studies the role of the conceptual models of the policy makers in the quality of prioritizing problems in the agenda setting stage of public policy cycle.  several factors contribute to perceiving problems, presenting clear definitions of them, prioritizing them and then problem setting in the format of agenda for policy makers. however, expecting to examine the theories of enactment...

Background Numerous reports suggest that coronary artery disease can regress with lipoprotein manipulation. Many of these reports lack control groups and contain relatively small numbers. Methods and Results Ten randomized controlled clinical trials using coronary arteriography to assess the effect of lipoprotein manipulation on the rate of progression and regression of atherosclerosis have bee...

The original definition of interactive proof-systems, as given by Goldwasser, Micali and Rackoff, does not impose limits on the prover's computing power [GMR89]. This is also the case for Babai's Arthur-Merlin games IBM88]. Hence, the prover may wish to convince the verifier of the t ru th of an assertion, but it does not really make sense for the prover to convince the verifier that she 1 know...

DiaLaw is a dialogical model of legal justification. An important characteristic of the formal and implemented model DiaLaw is that both logic-based arguments and mere convincing statements can be modelled. The support of both structural (logic-based) arguments and procedural arguments (mere convincing statements) is expressed by different levels in the dialog. In this paper so-called dialog tr...