BACKGROUND In order to better understand factors that influence decisions for public health, we undertook a qualitative study to explore issues relating to the time horizons used in decision-making. METHODS Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. 33 individuals involved in the decision making process around coronary heart disease were purposively sampled from the UK National Healt...

Long-term Financial Planning Abstract: In this paper we develop a modeling framework that incorporates behavioral aspects for an individual planner’s consumption, saving and investment decisions for long-term financial planning. The observed behavioral aspects in preferences, such as, hyperbolic time preference, loss aversion, asymmetric perception of uncertainty, dynamically-shifting reference...

Some aspects of neurological care require as much art as science, and this can apply to diagnosis, provision of long-term care, and in tailoring medication to individuals. Transient loss of consciousness (t-LOC) is a common medical complaint, and eliciting the cause of such events is an important and sometimes demanding task. The difficulties in t-LOC diagnosis are increased by the usually inco...

This research will explore teaching styles of university professors. Teaching style is an umbrella term for teaching decisions made during the entire teaching process – planning, delivery, and evaluation. Contemporary university teachers are advised to adopt the learner-centred teaching style which is assumed to produce remarkable possibilities. In the Fall Semester 2015 fifty-two respondents i...

PURPOSE To explore residents' and family members' perceptions of partnership-centered long-term care (LTC) associated with implementation of the Tri-focal Model of Care. The Model promotes partnership-centered care, evidence-based practice, and a positive environment. Its implementation is supported by a specifically designed education program. METHODS The Model was implemented over approxima...

Because few would object to evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) principal task of basing medical decisionmaking on the most judicious and up-to-date evidence, the debate over this prolific movement may seem puzzling. Who, one may ask, could be against evidence (CarrHill, 2006)? Yet this question belies the sophistication of the evidence-based movement. This chapter presents the evidence-based appro...

In Aplysia, repeated trials of aversive stimuli produce long-term sensitization (LTS) of defensive reflexes and suppression of feeding. Whereas the cellular underpinnings of LTS have been characterized, the mechanisms of feeding suppression remained unknown. Here, we report that LTS training induced a long-term decrease in the excitability of B51 (a decision-making neuron in the feeding circuit...

BACKGROUND The knowledge translation field is undermined by two interrelated gaps - underdevelopment of the science and limited use of research in health services and health systems decision making. The importance of context in theory development and successful translation of knowledge has been identified in past research. Additionally, examination of knowledge translation in the long-term care...

The old intuitive question ”what does the machine think” at different stages of its computation is examined. Our paper is based on the formal definitions and results which are collected in the branching program theory around the intuitive question ”what does the program know about the contents of the input bits” [1],[2],[3],[4],[5]. We further develop these results above and we present a formal...