background the lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (lmics). there is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (idp). the objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...

The literature on health-related behaviours and motivation is replete with research involving explicit processes and their relations with intentions and behaviour. Recently, interest has been focused on the impact of implicit processes and measures on health-related behaviours. Dual-systems models have been proposed to provide a framework for understanding the effects of explicit or deliberativ...

This chapter reviews empirical evidence bearing on the design of online forums for deliberative civic engagement. Dimensions of design are defined for different aspects of the deliberation: its purpose, the target population, the spatiotemporal distance separating participants, the communication medium, and the deliberative process to be followed. After a brief overview of criteria for evaluati...

Abstract Across Western democracies, immigration has become one of the most polarizing and salient issues, with public discourses individual attitudes often characterized by misperceptions. This condition undermines people's ability to develop informed opinions on matter runs counter ideal deliberative democracy. Yet, our understanding what makes so prone misperceptions is still limited – a con...

Objectivesthere are very few value frameworks (VFs) to assess health technologies that focused on diagnostic tests; they usually do not reflect a multistakeholder process; and all developed in high-income countries. Our project performed targeted systematic review, with the objective of proposing an evidence-based, up-to-date VF informed by multinational group working technology assessment (HTA...

The purpose of this paper is to further advance the discussion regarding Local Authorities and approaches facilitate sustainable planning for tourism. Building on previous research into tourism at local level in Ireland, study employed qualitative semi-structured interviews with every senior planner Ireland’s 28 identify degree which evidence-informed encouraged. Findings point a tendency from ...

Background The lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty (IDP). The objective of this study was to assess the usefulness of training works...

BACKGROUND There is a need to understand scientific evidence in light of the context within which it will be used. Deliberative dialogues are a promising strategy that can be used to meet this evidence interpretation challenge. METHODS We evaluated a deliberative dialogue held by a transnational violence prevention network. The deliberative dialogue included researchers and knowledge user par...

This paper introduces a new framework for realtime decision making in video games. An Ensemble agent is a compound agent composed of multiple agents, each with its own tasks or goals to achieve. Usually when dealing with real-time decision making, reactive agents are used; that is agents that return a decision based on the current state. While reactive agents are very fast, most games require m...