One of the key problems in the design of belief-desire-intention (BDI) agents is that of finding an appropriate policy for intention reconsideration. Crudely, the idea is that at any given time, an agent will have a number of intentions, relating to states of affairs that the agent has committed to bring about. An agent chooses plans that are appropriate for bringing about these intentions; if ...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are the leading cause of a drug-induced angioedema. This occurrence is frequently underdiagnosed, but its relapse can be life-threatening. The authors' intention in reporting this clinical case is to sound a warning about reviewing attitudes and surveillance to try to improve patient perioperative safety.

Title: Suicidal intention, psychosocial factors and referral to further treatment-a one-year cross-sectional study of self-poisonings Authors: Mari A Bjornaas ([email protected]) Knut E Hovda ([email protected]) Fridtjof Heyerdahl ([email protected]) Karina Skog ([email protected]) Per Drottning ([email protected]) Anders Opdahl ([email protected]) Dag J...

Inequalities in health between rich and poor areas of Britain widened in the 1980s and 1990s, and the current government has repeatedly expressed its intention to reduce these inequalities. In this article, however, the authors report that inequalities in life expectancy have continued to widen, alongside widening inequalities in income and wealth, and argue that more potent and redistributive ...

It is just over 50 years since the government circulars in Scotland, England and Wales which signalled an intention to abolish selection and reform secondary schooling along comprehensive lines. Each country’s policy trajectories since then have been quite different. In this article the authors reflect on more than 50 years of comprehensive education in Scotland and assess its achievements and ...

In a recent comparison of methods of highly oscillatory numerical integration the authors appear to have overlooked some works which seem to compete effectively with several of those described. It is the intention briefly to illuminate this with a number of examples reworked. In so doing, it is found that three commonly used Fortran compilers give curiously differing results on a number of occa...

The main purpose of this study is to reveal the impact consumer satisfaction on continuance intention use wearable fitness devices. Building upon IS Continuance Intention Model, authors explored effects confirmation ease use, perceived usefulness, positive and negative feelings, control satisfaction. health motivation social influence were examined alongside Our model consists twelve constructs...

In online sharing economy platforms, users often need to cooperate with strangers minimal information. When personal photos are available on these how do form social perceptions and consequently cooperative intention? According the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model kin selection theory, authors propose that facial resemblance between two partners affects their of cognitive trustworthines...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a review of research examining the effects of tobacco industry denormalisation (TID) on smoking-related and attitude-related outcomes. METHODS The authors searched Pubmed and Scopus databases for articles published through December 2010 (see figure 1). We included all peer-reviewed TID studies we could locate that measured smoking-related outcomes and attitudes toward the...