Values-based management in cooperative banks: Balancing self-perception with public perception?

Self-Prioritization in Perception 1 RUNNING HEAD: Self-Prioritization in Perception Self-prioritization beyond perception

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

The Expert Patient: A New Approach to Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management based on Illness Perception and Embodied Cognition

Introduction: In new patient-training methods, the issue of patient empowerment has been presented which emphasizes the active role of patient in education and treatment. This study examined the impact of empowerment –based diabetes education (knowledge diabetes and embodied cognition) in promoting self-management behaviors in type 2 diabetic patients. Methods: This randomized clinical trial st...

Environmental risk and risk perception management in public health

When evaluating environmental risk and its perception, psychosocial and psychosomatic factors may be of fundamental importance for public health programming and the promotion of quality of life. This is the case in particular where knowledge of the true health consequences of environmental exposure to given risk factors are incomplete or its action is within the range of values where we do not ...

Cooperative Active Perception using POMDPs

This paper studies active perception in an urban scenario, focusing on the cooperation between a set of surveillance cameras and mobile robots. The fixed cameras provide a global but incomplete and possibly inaccurate view of the environment, which can be enhanced by a robot’s local sensors. Active perception means that the robot considers the effects of its actions on its sensory capabilities....