This Essay explains why and how the Roman Catholic basis for informed consent is different from the secular basis. It argues that the Catholic basis, which is rooted in “natural law,” is the better model for society to adopt. The author explains that the secular view is rooted in the belief that patient autonomy must never be violated but the Catholic view is based on human dignity, which simpl...

Health care providers (HCP) and clinical scientists (CS) are generally most comfortable using evidence-based rational decision-making models. They become very frustrated when policymakers make decisions that, on the surface, seem irrational and unreasonable. However, such decisions usually make sense when analysed properly. The goal of this paper to provide a basic theoretical understanding of ...

We verify the Generalised Moonshine conjectures for some irrational modular functions for the Monster centralisers related to the Harada-Norton, Held, M12 and L3(3) simple groups based on certain orbifolding constraints. We find explicitly the fixing groups of the hauptmoduls arising in each case. PACS: 11.25.Hf, 02.10.De, 02.20.Bb

We study how the use of judgement or “add-factors” in macroeconomic forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We isolate conditions under which new phenomena, which we call exuberance equilibria, can exist in standard macroeconomic environments. Examples include a simple asset pricing model and the New Keynesian monetary policy framework....

Introduction: University students, as the future manpower resources, are of high importance for communities. One of the aspects to focus on is their mental health. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between alexithymia, irrational beliefs, positive and negative emotions with mental disorders in students. Methods: There were 400 students, selected randomly through stra...

A conceptual model examines the competitive firm’s optimal input and hedging decisions under price and output uncertainty. Behavioral utility functions are incorporated to represent the firm’s irrational organizational behaviors. The model is then solved in a numerical example using decision analysis methods. It is shown to be capable to solve for the optimal decisions under different market co...

Abstract How we understand the nature and role of grief depends on what take its object to be vice versa. This paper focuses recent claims by philosophers that is frequently or even inherently irrational inappropriate in one another respect, all which hinge assumptions concerning proper grief. By emphasizing temporally extended structure grief, offer an alternative account undermines these diss...

Across many domains of decision making, people seem both rational and irrational. We review recent work that aims to reconcile these apparently contradictory views by modeling human decisions as optimal under a set cognitive resource constraints. This ‘resource-rational’ analysis connects psychology neuroscience ideas from engineering, economics, machine learning. Here, we focus on an informati...