This paper analyzes a model of learning by imitation, where besides the decision maker, there is a population of individuals facing the same decision problem. We analyze a property called Absolute Expediency, which requires that the decision maker’s expected payo¤ increases from one round to the next for every decision problem and every profile of realized actions taken by the population. We gi...

DR. KENNETH WITCHER CLEMENT of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the National Medical Association in 1963-64, was awarded its 20th Distinguished Service Medal by vote of the House of Delegates at the Public Meeting of the 70th Annual Convention on August 10, 1965. The presentation was made by Dr. Whittier C. Atkinson, chairman of the Council on Distinguished Service Award. During 1964-65 Dr. Clemen...

Natural Disasters like cyclones and Earthquakes have a huge impact on the lives of people, results in damage to infrastructure, lead injuries deaths. IoT Based detection systems are utilized for detecting disasters performing subsequent rescue operations. The challenge with these is that collecting data from sensors might be failed due communication breakages or network congestions. To address ...

In this article, the author draws attention to potential danger posed by development and use of artificial intelligence, considers it necessary minimize legal means. He gives reflections on expediency recognizing presumption intelligence. his opinion, significance lies in fact that will entail creation additional guarantees for realization rights legitimate interests citizens context operation ...

Dr. Mane an is vice p resilien t, m issio n services and ethics, Trinity Health, Novi, MI. M ission discernment (also known as ethical discernment or ethical decision making) is emerging as one of the more encouraging recent developments in U.S. health care. Health care organizations have not only chosen a variety of names for the process, they have also introduced it into their structures ,\n>...

in recent years the most powerful and effective negotiations to change elements of the united nations, the security council, has sparked a wide debate benefits and special privileges of members of the security council such as the right to veto the, imposing sanctions has forced some states to opposite white this order and 5 permanent members of the security council on the path to maintain the s...

An approach is presented to multi-expert’s opinions combination based on the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory. In the method, we use multi-expert’s knowledge as evidence, the possible value of weight as frame of discernment, expert’s evaluation to a weight on frame of discernment as basic probability assignment, and use D-S rule combining to give fusion basic probability assignment m. Finally, t...