Let them be heard

Pastoralists Preferences for Cattle Traits: Letting them be heard

Introduction Pastoralists who inhabit the African arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) are among the world’s poorest populations. They lack vital infrastructure in the form of accessible roads, electricity and telecommunications, leaving them increasingly isolated. Livestock holdings of cattle, camels, goats and sheep often comprise the bulk of their limited wealth and are an integral part of their ...

Virtual Humanoids: Let Them Be Autonomous without Losing Control

There have been several efforts to build life-like autonomous creatures in virtual worlds, but only few of them have focused their intentions in presenting human-like autonomous creatures. In this paper we discuss the problem of building autonomous virtual humanoids with goal directed behaviors. We present the decision-making as a process compound of: goal achievement planning, dynamic belief m...

Let them cheat!

We consider the problem of fairly allocating a bundle of infinitely divisible goods among a group of agents with “classical” preferences. We propose to measure an agent’s “sacrifice” at an allocation by the size of the set of feasible bundles that the agent prefers to her consumption. As a solution, we select the allocations at which sacrifices are equal across agents and this common sacrifice ...

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'You need to let your voice be heard': research participants' views on research.

BACKGROUND Persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities have had regrettably few opportunities to voice their opinions on aspects of research with which they have had direct experience. Understanding and responding to these views can contribute to policies and practices that increasingly treat people as they desire to be treated. METHODS We conducted individual interviews and focu...