Philosophy with Children: A Rights-based Approach to Deliberative Participation

Health through people's empowerment: a rights-based approach to participation.

Analysis of the academic discourse on participation, empowerment, and the right to health since the 1978 Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care and the subsequent Alma-Ata Declaration shows that each phase of the evolution of these concepts added important new aspects to the discussion. This article focuses on three crucial issues that relate to these additions: the importance...

a new type-ii fuzzy logic based controller for non-linear dynamical systems with application to 3-psp parallel robot

abstract type-ii fuzzy logic has shown its superiority over traditional fuzzy logic when dealing with uncertainty. type-ii fuzzy logic controllers are however newer and more promising approaches that have been recently applied to various fields due to their significant contribution especially when the noise (as an important instance of uncertainty) emerges. during the design of type- i fuz...

Rights-based approach to development

TownHall: a Secure, Deliberative e-Participation System

The potential of e-Participation mechanisms has significantly evolved over time. However, with governments, political parties, corporations, and mass-media controlling the communication channels, citizens who deliberate through e-Participation may have to contend with bias, censorship, and even eavesdropping. TownHall is intended to help manage this burden. As a platform-independent, peer-to-pe...

A Genetic-DEA Approach to Reveal Property Rights Priorities