FDA Backlash Over Proposals

Strategic Voting over Strategic Proposals

Prior research on “strategic voting” has reached the conclusion that unanimity rule is uniquely bad: it results in destruction of information, and hence makes voters worse off. We show that this conclusion depends critically on the assumption that the issue being voted on is exogenous, i.e., independent of the voting rule used. We depart from the existing literature by endogenizing the proposal...

Agents Deliberating over Action Proposals Using the ProCLAIM Model

In this paper we propose a dialogue game for agents to deliberate over a proposed action. The agents’ dialogue moves are defined by a structured set of argument schemes and critical questions (CQs). Thus, a dialogue move is an instantiated scheme (i.e. an argument) or a CQ (i.e. a challenge on the argument instantiated in the scheme). The proposed dialogue game formalises the protocol based exc...

Understanding the managed care backlash.

This paper examines the depth and breadth of the public backlash against managed care and the reasons for it. We conclude that the backlash is real and influenced by at least two principal factors: (1) A significant proportion of Americans report problems with managed care plans; and (2) the public perceives threatening and dramatic events in managed care that have been experienced by just a fe...

What's behind the public's backlash?

Modeling of backlash in drivetrains

The presence of backlash in drivetrains is a major source of limitations as it introduces nonlinearities that reduce their efficiency in speed and position control. Existing models in backlash assume massless shaft, and use only elasticity and damping properties to describe the transmitted torque. This assumption makes them inaccurate since it does not account for the contribution of the body’s...