INTRODUCTION Ongoing training by means of clinical sessions constitutes an essential activity for a pharmacy department, being joint analysis useful to adapt the clinical sessions' characteristics to the preferences of the professionals involved. By means of this study we hope to optimize clinical sessions for their better use and efficiency. METHODS A least squares model was used to assess t...

OBJECTIVE To survey parents bringing children to an urban pediatric primary care clinic about (1) how they learned parenting skills, (2) role of the clinic in teaching parenting, (3) helpfulness of information sources, and (4) preferred modalities for teaching. METHODS A total of 108 adults completed an oral survey in clinic, consisting of open-ended questions, yes/no endorsements, Likert rat...

BACKGROUND Experts have recommended training and standardisation as promising approaches to improve handovers and minimise the negative consequences of discontinuity of care. Yet the content and delivery of handover training have been only superficially examined and described in literature. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to formulate recommendations for effective handover training and to...

Rational choice theory analyzes how an agent can rationally act, given his or her preferences, but says little about where those preferences come from. Preferences are usually assumed to be …xed and exogenously given. Building on related work on reasons and rational choice (Dietrich and List forthcoming), we describe a framework for conceptualizing preference formation and preference change. In...

In the context of practical reasoning, such as decision making and negotiation, it is necessary to model preferences over possible outcomes. Such preferences usually depend on multiple criteria. We argue that the criteria by which outcomes are evaluated should be the satisfaction of a person’s underlying interests: the more an outcome satisfies his interests, the more preferred it is. Underlyin...

The French Lexical Network (fr-LN) is a global model of the French lexicon presently under construction. The fr-LN accounts for lexical knowledge as a lexical network structured by paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations holding between lexical units. This paper describes how morphological knowledge is presently being introduced into the fr-LN through the implementation and lexicographic exploit...

This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including evidence on cost, impact, relative risks and beneficiary preferences. We note that there are two large ga...

We consider agents who choose by proceeding through an ordered list of criteria and give the lower bound on the number of criteria that are needed for an agent to make decisions that obey a given set of preference rankings. Agents with rational preferences can always use lists with the lower-bound number of criteria while any agent with nonrational preferences must on some domains use strictly ...

The paper discusses the significance of factors in anaphora resolution and on the basis of a comparative study argues that what matters is not only a good set of reliable factors but also the strategy for their application. The objective of the study was to find out how well the same set of factors worked within two different computational strategies. To this end, we tuned two anaphora resoluti...