Mental health professionals, like other professionals involved in family matters, feel constrained when advocating for the interests of children by the belief that parents are entitled to custody and control of their children's lives, regardless of what others may think of their parenting behavior, absent severe harm to the children. This belief is morally untenable, and the legal doctrine of p...

We present a new approach for learning compact and intuitive distributed representations with binary encoding. Rather than summing up expert votes as in products of experts, we employ for each variable the opinion of the most reliable expert. Data points are hence explained through a partitioning of the variables into expert supports. The partitions are dynamically adapted based on which expert...

Forensic Medicine, or as it is called on the continent of Europe, Legal Medicine, is the medical specialty which applies the principles and practice of Medicine to the elucidation of questions in judicial proceedings. If this definition is to be accepted, it follows that there must be as many specialties within the field of Forensic Medicine as there are in the entire field of general medical p...

BACKGROUND The impact of sarcopenia on quality of life is currently assessed by generic tools. However, these tools may not detect subtle effects of this specific condition on quality of life. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop a sarcopenia-specific quality of life questionnaire (SarQoL, Sarcopenia Quality of Life) designed for community-dwelling elderly subjects aged 65 years and...

This paper describes some relevant legal aspects concerning non-social robots. Special attention is drawn to Person Carrier Robots (PCaR) and Physical Assistant Robots (PAR). Although concrete legal binding regulations concerning these two sub-types of Personal Care Robots (PCR) are missing, the insertion of this assistive technology into the market arises some legal and ethical concerns. The m...

insurance industry experts believe that fraud is a destructive disaster in the insurance industry. over the years, many methods have been used in the literature for fraud detection, one of which is expert systems. fraud detection expert systems are based on the knowledge of experts in the field of insurance identify fraud. judgment of experts is mostly based on evidence, documents, qualitative ...

METHODS Students attending five different types of high schools in central Elazig (a city in Turkey) during the 2009-2010 school year constitute the study population. One class was randomly selected from each high school. Out of 650 students, 640 participated in the study. The data were evaluated by using the SPSS program; percentage, mean, and chi-square analyses were used. FINDINGS Of all t...

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/AO-170174. This paper describes a new concept of legal ontology together with an ontology development tool, called European Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (ELTS). The tool is used to model the legal terminology created by the Uniform Terminology project on EU consumer protection law as an ontology. ELTS is not a formal o...

We carried out a trial designed to assess the performance of a computer program called TrenDx at the task of diagnosing growth disorders in children, given a limited set of data. We compared the performance of TrenDx to that of physicians performing the same task. The task consisted of reviewing a growth chart of a patient and deciding whether the patient should be referred to a growth clinic f...