Background—The guidelines on chemotherapy and management of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. Methods—A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee (JTC) of the British Thoracic Society to revise the guidelines published in 1990 by the JTC. In preparing the revised guidelines the authors took account of new published evidence and graded the st...

BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia display metacognitive impairments, such as hasty decision-making during probabilistic reasoning - the "jumping to conclusion" bias (JTC). Our recent fMRI study revealed reduced activations in the right ventral striatum (VS) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to be associated with decision-making in patients with schizophrenia. It is unclear whether these...

BACKGROUND The guidelines on control and prevention of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. METHODS A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee (JTC). Each member of this group drafted one or more sections of the guidelines, and drafts were made available to all members of the group. In the course of several meetings drafts were altered and i...

Introduction Despite significant advances in antipsychotic medications, schizophrenia continues to be a highly disabling condition. Many patients go untreated, are treatment resistant or receive inadequate treatment. A large body of work has demonstrated that cognitive biases (e.g., jumping to conclusions [JTC], overconfidence in errors, bias against disconfirmatory evidence) are involved in th...

BACKGROUND Previous schizophrenia research involving the "beads task" has suggested an association between delusions and 2 reasoning biases: (1) "jumping to conclusions" (JTC), whereby early, resolute decisions are formed on the basis of little evidence and (2) over-adjustment of probability estimates following a single instance of disconfirmatory evidence. In the current study, we used a novel...

The emerging standard ISO/IEC 24773, Software Engineering – Certification of Software Engineering Professionals – Comparison Framework, is at its final stage of development. The coming International Standard will establish a framework for comparison of schemes for certifying software engineering professionals. It is expected that ISO/IEC 24773 will facilitate the portability of software enginee...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has selected biometrics in particular face as the technique for travel documents to verify the association between such documents and the person in possession of them. The International Standard Organization (ISO) has defined a standard for the digital face images to be used in Machine Readable Travel Documents. Due to the ISO/IEC 19794-5 int...

Introduction: Previous studies have reported contradicting results about the effect of medication therapy on attribution bias and jumping to conclusion (JTC) bias in schizophrenic patients. This study aims at analyzing the effect of medication on attribution bias and JTC bias in schizophrenic patients. Methods: This study is an ex post facto and casual-comparative research. 28 people includi...

Impaired decision behavior has been repeatedly observed in schizophrenia patients. We investigated several cognitive mechanisms that might contribute to the jumping-to-conclusions bias (JTC) seen in schizophrenia patients: biases in information-gathering, information weighting and integration, and overconfidence, using the process tracing paradigm Mouselab. Mouselab allows for an in-depth explo...