introduction: nurses’ intention to leave job is problematic for health system and the quality of work life is one of the important factors affecting on this intention. the present study aimed at show the relationship between nurses’ quality of work life and their intention to leave the job. methods: this study was an analytical cross-sectional study. . it was conducted based on a sample of 480 ...

Intention is central to the concept of voluntary action. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we compared conditions in which participants made self-paced actions and attended either to their intention to move or to the actual movement. When they attended to their intention rather than their movement, there was an enhancement of activity in the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA). We...

Developing a dialogue agent that is capable of making autonomous decisions and communicating by natural language is one of the long-term goals of machine learning research. Traditional approaches either rely on hand-crafting a small state-action set for applying reinforcement learning that is not scalable or constructing deterministic models for learning dialogue sentences that fail to capture ...

Background: measuring light from water Russian physicist Dr. Konstantin Korotkov of St. Petersburg State Technical University invented the Gas Discharge Visualization (GDV) technique, which makes use of state-of-the-art optics, digitized television matrices and a powerful computer. Ordinarily, a living thing will dribble out the faintest pulse of photons, perceptible only to the most sensitive ...

Bounded Intention Planning (BIP) [7] is a pruning approach for optimal planning with unary operators. BIP has the flavor of partial order reduction, which has recently found increasing interest for optimal planning [4, 6]. However, although BIP is claimed to be a variant of stubborn sets [3] in the original paper, no proof is given for this claim. In this paper, we shed light on the relationshi...

This paper aims to investigate methodologies to utilize an agent’s intentions as a means to guide the revision of its beliefs. For this purpose, we develop a collection of belief revision operators that employ the effect of the revision on the agent’s intentions as the selection criteria. These operators are then assessed for rationality against the traditional AGM postulates. There is a large ...

On the text surface the transition from one communicative goal to another can, for instance , be observed from the text layout. Where a new goal sets in, the p;i.ragral)h structure is often interrupted and a new paragraph begins. Also, the theme of the first sentence of such a new paragraph is in inost ca.ses not related to any element in the previous sentence, which is the case when subsequent...

the term “serological epidemiology” is based to describe a method which has unique applications in comparing the immunologic status and health experiences of various populations, especially among populations for which morbidity data and vital statistics are scanty or completely lacking, or for inaccessible areas where the collection of serum is made with difficulty. serologic and hematological ...

BACKGROUND While shared decision making (SDM) and adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are important, some believe they are incompatible. This study explored the mutual influence between physicians' intention to engage in SDM and their intention to follow CPGs. METHODS Embedded within a clustered randomized trial to assess the impact of training physicians in SDM about using antib...