This paper presents some preliminary work which attempts to adapt, in the context of deontic reasoning, the CO logic deened by Boutilier for reasoning with conditional preferences. The rst motivation for this work is that deontic logic can be given a semantics in terms of ordered worlds as in CO logic: the preference relation among worlds aims at ordering worlds from the most ideal ones to the ...

The full impact of IT in health care has not been realized because of the failure to recognize that (1) the path from availability of applications to the anticipated benefits passes through a series of steps; and (2) progress can be stopped at any one of those steps. As a result, strategies for diffusion, adoption, and use have been incomplete and have produced disappointing results. In this pa...

Journal based metrics is known not to be ideal for the measurement of the quality of individual researcher's scientific output. In the current report 16 contributors from Hong Kong SAR, India, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Belgium, France, Italy, UK, The Netherlands, Malaysia, and USA are invited. The following six questions were asked: (I) is Web of Sciences journal impact fac...

Policies from non-health sectors have considerable impacts on the food environment and in turn on population nutrition. Health impact assessment (HIA) methods have been developed to identify the potential health effects of non-health policies; however, they are underused both within and outside the health sector. HIA and other assessment methods and tools can be used more extensively in health ...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) courses are teaching public health and urban planning students how to assess the likely health effects of proposed policies, plans, and projects. We suggest that public health and urban planning have complimentary frameworks for training practitioners to address the living conditions that affect health. Planning perspectives emphasize practical skills for impactin...

Dancing on the grid: using e-science tools to extend choreographic research Journal Article How to cite: Bailey, Helen; Bachler, Michelle; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Le Blanc, Anja; Popat, Sita; Rowley, Andrew and Turner, Martin (2009). Dancing on the grid: using e-science tools to extend choreographic research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineer...

OBJECTIVE The research assessed nursing faculty awareness and knowledge of the journal impact factor (JIF) and its impact on their publication choices. METHODS A qualitative cross-sectional questionnaire was developed using Fluid Survey and distributed electronically to nursing faculty and instructors at three post-secondary institutions in Saskatchewan. Data were collected on place and statu...

Ninety-six high school students participated in a study investigating the immediate and delayed effects of forewarning of persuasive intent. It was predicted that subjects would change less immediately after reading persuasive communications because the forewarning would serve as a discounting cue, but that over time, they would tend to forget or dissociate this cue, thus allowing the full impa...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coal exploitation technology could have affected the deformation of ground under a housing estate in the Upper Silesia agglomeration. The 10-storey apartment building began to deviate from the vertical. These factors affected the housing conditions of inhabitants in the block of flats. From 1991-2001, coal-mine surveyors monitored the vertical deviation. The inhabita...

OBJECTIVE To compare two methods of developing short forms of the Malaysian Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-M) measure. METHOD Cross sectional data obtained using the long form of the OHIP-M was used to produce two types of OHIP-M short forms, derived using two different methods; namely regression and item frequency methods. The short version derived using a regression method is known as Reg...