Biotechnology: Making people

Making Services Work for Poor People

Success in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those related to human development outcomes, will depend not just on faster economic growth and the flow of resources, but on the ability to translate those resources into services. Thus improving service delivery has become a higher policy priority. The purpose of this Research Program is to find new ways to measure the efficac...

16. Making Agents Acceptable to People

Because ever more powerful intelligent agents will interact with people in increasingly sophisticated and important ways, greater attention must be given to the technical and social aspects of how to make agents acceptable to people [16.72]. From a technical perspective, we want to help ensure the protection of agent states, the viability of agent communities, and the reliability of the resourc...

Neurocognitive deficits related to poor decision-making in people behind bars Running head: Decision-making in people behind bars

Using a novel quantitative model of repeated choice behavior, we investigated the cognitive processes of criminal offenders incarcerated for various crimes. Eighty-one criminals, including violent offenders, drug and sex offenders, drivers operating a vehicle while impaired (OWI) and eighteen matched controls were tested. The results were also contrasted to those obtained from neurological pati...

Biotechnology and Social Aspect

Making primary care people-centred: a 21st century blueprint.

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 July 26, 2014 281 Not since the Alma-Ata defi nition of primary care in 1978 has there been so much soul searching on how best to provide a fi rst-contact system that is fair, equitable, accessible, cost eff ective, sustainable, and above all improves the health and wellbeing of the population it serves. Part of this renewed attention on primary care is the widespread ...