I study how limited abilities to process information affect choice behavior. I model the decision making process by an automaton, and measure the complexity of a specific choice rule by the minimal number of categories an automaton implementing the rule uses to process information. I establish that any choice rule that is less complicated than utility maximization displays framing effects. I th...

as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

This paper aims at proposing a framework for modelling the safety of an engineering system with various types of uncertainties using a fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach. In the framework, parameters used to define the safety level, including failure rate, failure consequence severity and failure consequence probability, are described using fuzzy linguistic variables; a fuz...

A framework for modelling the safety of an engineering system using a fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach has been recently proposed, where a fuzzy rule-base designed on the basis of a belief structure (called a belief rule base) forms a basis in the inference mechanism of FURBER. However, it is difficult to accurately determine the parameters of a fuzzy belief rule base (FB...

Introduction: Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is recommended to treat the glioblastoma tumor. It is well known that neuron beams are more effective treatment than photon beams to treat hypoxia tumors due to interaction of neutron with nucleus and production of heavy particles such as 7Li and alpha particle. In this study to evaluate the suitability of BNCT for treating of ...

SUMMARY  An abnormal increase in serum potassium afte-r administration of suxamethonium is known to occur in the treatment of burns, trauma, teta­nus and neurological disorders. A table shows how long this abnormal reaction lasts approxi­mately in the different categories. A few cases of cardiac arrest following suxamethonium in­jection are described in detail. The pa;thogene­sis of this abnor...

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The design process associated with large engineering systems requires an initial decomposition of the complex system into modules of design tasks which are coupled through the transference of output data. In analyzing or optimizing such a coupled system, it is essential to be able to determine which interactions figure prominently enough to significantly affect the accuracy of the system soluti...

Sequent automaton is an intermediate abstract model used on the way from representation of a desired behavior of some engineering system at the algorithmic level to the detailed description of a logical control device designed to provide this behavior, in terms of logic circuits. In this paper, there are regarded the problems of obtaining a sequent automaton from the preceding model of parallel...

We first propose a general game-theoretic framework for studying engineering systems consisting of interacting (sub)systems. Our framework enables us to capture the delays often present in engineering systems as well as asynchronous operations of systems. We model the interactions among the systems using a repeated game and provide a new simple learning rule for the players representing the sys...