Background & aim: Care provision is one of the most important factors in preventing and reducing mortality among pregnant mothers. Despite availability, the uptake of health services in health centers is undesirable. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the behavior of pregnant women towards using prenatal care services based on health belief model in healthcare centers of Tu...

In this chapter, we take Generation of Referring Expressions to be the task of producing a description of the referent that allows the reader to identify it. In doing so, the generator can make use of any information that it can safely assume the user to possess, based on a model of the hearer’s information (henceforth, the Knowledge Base KB). Given an algorithm for producing referring expressi...

For as long there have been theories about common knowledge, they exposed to a certain amount of skepticism. Recent more sophisticated arguments question whether agents can acquire attitudes and are needed in social reasoning. I argue that this skepticism arises from assumptions practical reasoning that, considered themselves, at worst implausible best controversial. A proper approach the acqui...

ENP2.0 is a music notation program written in Common Lisp, CLOS, and OpenGL. ENP provides a rich set of notational attributes called ENPexpressions. In this paper, we give an overview of the properties of ENP-Expressions. The underlying system used to handle the graphical representation of ENP-expressions is discussed in detail. A special attention is given to an expression called Score-BPF. Th...

Philosopher: Today, I suggest we discuss the important concepts of common knowledge and common belief. As far as I know, the first one to give a formal analysis of these concepts was the philosopher David Lewis, in his book Convention [131]. One of his examples is traffic conventions, about the role of common knowledge in how one behaves in road traffic. To explain this properly, I wonder if yo...

But game theory as we presently know it can not proceed without the fulcrum of common knowledge. Robert Wilson (1985) In the universal belief space [Mertens and Zamir (1985)] which incorporated all situations of incomplete information concerning a state space S , we de ne a `knowledge operator' in terms of beliefs. From this operator we derive (in the usual way) the concept of common knowledge ...

In a game, an item of information is considered common knowledge if all players know it, and all players know that they know it, and all players know that they know that they know it, ad infinitum. We investigate how the information structure of a game can affect equilibrium and explore how common knowledge can be approximated by Monderer and Samet’s notion of common belief in the case it canno...