This article summarises the objectives, methodology and initial conclusions of the project "Commitment to Quality of the Spanish Scientific Societies", coordinated by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine and the Aragon Institute of Health Sciences, in which 48 scientific societies participate. This project's objectives are to decrease th...

The evolution of U.S. civil commitment law needs to be understood within the context of changes in psychiatry and medicine, as well as larger social policy and economic changes. American civil commitment law has reflected the swinging pendulum of social attitudes towards civil commitment, oscillating between more and less restriction for both procedural and substantive standards. These standard...

A collaborative group is commonly defined as a set of agents, which share information and coordinate activities while working towards a common goal. How do groups decide which are their common goals and what to intend? According to the much cited theory of Cohen and Levesque, an agent intends g if it has chosen to pursue goal g and it has committed itself to making g happen. Following the same ...

 Integrated into the overall system of care and includes a continuum of step-up and stepdown services within the same provider organization.  Offers a comprehensive and ecological model of multi-model treatment interventions into an integrated whole, designed to meet the individual needs of a child and the child’s family.  Commitment to national standards of excellence, a continuous commitme...

Norm formation is one of the most basic processes of social interaction. To clarify this process, we introduce mutual commitment and meta commitment among agents. R. Axelrod has analyzed the commitment structure of norm formation and the collapsing process of the norm as his norm and meta norm games [1] . He analyzes the games with genetic algorithm. In this paper we generalize the games as mut...