New EU health commissioner airs his priorities

The EU Clinical Trials Regulation: key priorities, purposes and aims and the implications for public health.

The replacement of the European Union (EU) Clinical Trials Directive by the new Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR), which entered into force on 16 June 2014 but will not apply before 28 May 2016, provides an opportunity to review the legal and political context within which this important aspect of research law and policy sits and to reflect on the implications for public health. My aim in this a...

Global health priorities – priorities of the wealthy?

Health has gained importance on the global agenda. It has become recognized in forums where it was once not addressed. In this article three issues are considered: global health policy actors, global health priorities and the means of addressing the identified health priorities. I argue that the arenas for global health policy-making have shifted from the public spheres towards arenas that incl...

Privacy commissioner wants new criteria for entering health information in police database.

An Agent's Activities Are Controlled by His Priorities

Activity scheduling mechanism plays a critical role in the correct behaviour of BDI agents. For example, a robotic agent to serve at home should carry out the right activities at the right times. However the scheduling of deliberation about new beliefs and the scheduling of intention execution have not been carefully studied in most BDI systems. Usually if there is any differentiation of urgenc...

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