The view that children understand the mind via a coherent theory is supported by evidence that children rigidly follow a Seeing = Knowing Rule: seeing, and only seeing, leads to knowing. This paper presents two kinds of evidence that children do not follow this rule. First, we critically review previous findings that children neglect the role of inference and argue that these studies do not in ...

The pattern is, in short, at the same time a thing, which happens in the world, and the rule which tells us how to create that thing, and when we must create it. It is both a process and a thing; both a description of a thing which is alive, and a description of the process which will generate that thing

When designing a software system it is beneficial to study and use architectural styles from literature, to ensure certain quality attributes. However, as the interpretation of literature may differ depending on the background and area of expertise of the person reading the literature, we suggest that structured discussions about different architecture candidates provides more valuable insight ...

A model is developed that can estimate recreational welfare measures for access to and changes in quality attributes at long distance single-visited tourist sites with only on-site information available. By defining the good (a visit to the site) as indivisible in consumption welfare measures are derived by simply capturing or estimating the chokeprice(s). Stated and revealed methods suitable t...

[ABSTRACT] Some argue that God’s omnipotence and moral perfection prevent God from being afraid and having evil desires and thus from understanding such states—which contradicts God’s omniscience. But, I argue, God could acquire such understanding indirectly, either by (i) perceiving the mental states of imperfect creatures, (ii) imaginatively combining the components of mental states with whic...

BACKGROUND Information from the patient's point of view is essential in policy and clinical decisions. Prioritizing what patients value, need, and prefer in various aspects of a health program can be helpful in evaluating and designing hospital health care services. OBJECTIVE To examine patients' preference for attributes related to health care services and to ascertain the relative impact of...

BACKGROUND Setting fair health care priorities counts among the most difficult ethical challenges our societies are facing. OBJECTIVE To elicit through a discrete choice experiment the Belgian adult population's (18-75 years; N = 750) preferences for prioritizing health care and investigate whether these preferences are different for prevention versus cure. METHODS We used a Bayesian D-effi...

This paper offers a new, hybrid multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) procedure which can be employed to quantitatively develop the optimal strategies for inflating students’ satisfaction of university hostels. The procedure uses: the systematic random stratified sampling approach for data collection purpose as students dwelling in hostels are ‘naturally’ grouped by block and gender, factor...