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- Toward Pleomorphic Reconfigurable Robots for Optimum Coverage.S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon,M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala,Mohan R. Elara &SelvaKumaran -2021 -Complexity 2021:1-10.Buildings are constructed for accommodating living and industrial needs. Floor cleaning robots have been developed to cater to the demand of these buildings. Area coverage and coverage time are crucial performance factors of a floor cleaning robot. Reconfigurable tiling robots have been introduced over fixed shape robots to improve area coverage in floor cleaning applications compared to robots with fixed morphologies. However, area coverage and coverage time of a tiling robot compromised one another. This study proposes a novel concept that (...) considers the ability of a tiling robot to configure both its morphology and size according to the environment. This concept is inspired by the pleomorphism that could be seen in bacteria. In this regard, P-hTetro, a pleomorphic tiling robot that can reconfigure its morphology and size, is considered. A novel coverage strategy for realizing the size reconfiguration is also proposed. According to this strategy, the robot covers obstacle-free areas with its maximum size, while an obstacle cluster is covered after shrinking to an optimum size. The optimum size for reconfiguration is determined by the genetic algorithm based on the arrangement of the environment. The performance and behavior of the proposed P-hTetro have been compared against that of an existing tiling robot which has a fixed size. According to the statistical outcomes, a tiling robot with the ability to reconfigure its size can significantly improve the performance in the aspects of area coverage and coverage time compared to a tiling robot with no ability to reconfigure its size. (shrink)
- Generalization through the recurrent interaction of episodic memories: A model of the hippocampal system.DharshanKumaran &James L. McClelland -2012 -Psychological Review 119 (3):573-616.
- Coercive, mimetic and normative: Interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports.Kumaran Rajandran -2018 -Discourse and Communication 12 (4):424-444.Malaysian corporations have to disclose corporate social responsibility, and a typical genre for disclosure is CSR reports. These reports incorporate other discourses which indicate the presence of interdiscursivity. The article examines interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports. It selects the CSR reports of 10 major corporations and pursues an interdiscursive analysis which involves four sequential stages. CSR reports contain discourses of public relations, sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting. Although the discourses are often multisemiotic, language maintains primacy in content, while (...) image tends to exemplify or simplify content. These discourses constitute an interdiscursive profile, and it has central and auxiliary discourses. The central discourse is public relations discourse, and it promotes corporations helping and not harming society. The auxiliary discourses are sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting discourses, and these discourses mitigate the promotional focus. Interdiscursivity enables the primarily promotional CSR reports to not seem overtly promotional. The choice of discourses is probably influenced by coercive, mimetic and normative reasons. These discourses enhance the reliability of CSR reports because their disclosure is anchored to various CSR aspects, international or reporting practices and professional domains. Interdiscursivity helps to build stakeholders’ confidence in disclosure and, therefore, in corporations. It joins other functions in CSR reports to convey corporations as agents of positive social change. The article also probes the relationship between interdiscursivity and intertextuality and advances a matrix of intertextual–interdiscursive use. (shrink)No categories
- How Can We Improve Patient Satisfaction As a Consumer of Public Health Services? The Case of Psychiatric Patients Undergoing Electroconvulsive Therapy.CarmenSelva-Sevilla,Patricia Romero-Rodenas &Marta Lucas-Perez-Romero -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7.
- The various states with special emphasis on samadhi in yoga.T. S.Kumaran -2006 - In Yajñeśvara Sadāśiva Śāstrī, Intaj Malek & Sunanda Y. Shastri,In quest of peace: Indian culture shows the path. Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. pp. 2--566.Export citation
Bookmark - En torno a algunos arquetipos vinculados con la palabra historia.José VilaSelva -1988 -Filosofia Oggi 11 (3):393-398.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- A theorical point of view of reality, perception, and language.Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva,Josep-Lluis Usó-Doménech &Hugh Gash -2014 -Complexity 20 (1):27-37.
- Topological structures of complex belief systems.Josué-Antonio Nescolarde-Selva &José-Luis Usó-Doménech -2014 -Complexity 19 (1):46-62.No categories
- Linguistic Knowledge of Reality: A Metaphysical Impossibility?J. Nescolarde-Selva,J. L. Usó-Doménech &M. J. Sabán -2015 -Foundations of Science 20 (1):27-58.Reality contains information that becomes significances in the mind of the observer. Language is the human instrument to understand reality. But is it possible to attain this reality? Is there an absolute reality, as certain philosophical schools tell us? The reality that we perceive, is it just a fragmented reality of which we are part? The work that the authors present is an attempt to address this question from an epistemological, linguistic and logical-mathematical point of view.
- Reality, Systems and Impure Systems.J. Nescolarde-Selva &J. L. Usó-Doménech -2014 -Foundations of Science 19 (3):289-306.Impure systems contain Objects and Subjects: Subjects are human beings. We can distinguish a person as an observer (subjectively outside the system) and that by definition is the Subject himself, and part of the system. In this case he acquires the category of object. Objects (relative beings) are significances, which are the consequence of perceptual beliefs on the part of the Subject about material or energetic objects (absolute beings) with certain characteristics.The IS (Impure System) approach is as follows: Objects are (...) perceptual significances (relative beings) of material or energetic objects (absolute beings). The set of these objects will form an impure set of the first order. The existing relations between these relative objects will be of two classes: transactions of matter and/or energy and inferential relations. Transactions can have alethic modality: necessity, possibility, impossibility and contingency. Ontic existence of possibility entails that inferential relations have Deontic modality: obligation, permission, prohibition, faculty and analogy. We distinguished between theorems (natural laws) and norms (ethical, legislative and customary rules of conduct). (shrink)
- Semiotic Vision of Ideologies.Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva &Josep-Lluis Usó-Doménech -2014 -Foundations of Science 19 (3):263-282.A semiotic theory of systems derived from language would have the purpose of classifying all the systems of linguistic expression: philosophy, ideology, myth, poetry, art, as much as the dream, lapsus, and free association in a pluridimensional matrix that will interact with many diversified fields. In each one of these discourses it is necessary to consider a plurality of questions, the essence of which will only be comprehensible by the totality; it will be necessary to ask, in the first place, (...) what will be the purpose of this language, what function does it fulfill and for which reason has it been constructed. The concept of World vision (WV) is introduced and its relation with Generalized Collective Conscience (GCC) and Particularized Collective Conscience. Culture implies a particular WV. Culture creates GCC. The semantic field is a structure that formalizes the units of a certain culture constituting a portion of the vision of the Reality that owns this culture. An ecological case is explained. (shrink)
- Topological structures of complex belief systems (II): Textual materialization.J. Nescolarde-Selva &J. L. USÓ-Doménech -2014 -Complexity 19 (2):50-62.No categories
- A logic-mathematical point of view of the truth: Reality, perception, and language.Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva,Josep-Lluis Usó-Doménech &Hugh Gash -2015 -Complexity 20 (4):58-67.
- Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism, by Loy, David.Padmasiri DeSelva -1998 -Asian Philosophy 8 (3):215.Lack and transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism. David Loy, 1996 New Jersey, Humanities Press 186 pp. Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality. Crispin Sartwell New York, State University of New York Press 192 pp. Extracting the Essence of the Sruti.. The Srutisārasamuddharanam of Totakācārya Michael Comans (Trans.), 1996 Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers xxvi + 122 pp., hb Rs 195, ISBN 81 208 1410 x.
- Beliefs, Epistemic Regress and Doxastic Justification.J. A. Nescolarde-Selva,J. L. Usó-Doménech,L. Segura-Abad &H. Gash -2025 -Foundations of Science 30 (1):109-147.By justification we understand what makes a belief epistemologically viable: generally this is considered knowledge that is true. The problem is defining this with a higher degree of precision because this is where different conflicting conceptions appear. On the one hand, we can understand justification as what makes it reasonable to acquire or maintain a belief; on the other, it is what increases the probability that the belief is true. This work tries to prove that beliefs depend on other beliefs (...) that are epistemically justified and that such beliefs are the result of (i.e., they arise from) our privileged intuition of reality. For this, we examine the concept of epistemic regress. Epistemic reasons authorize a proposition P to be the conclusion of an argument in which such reasons function as premises and are vulnerable to epistemic regress. The three most important approaches to epistemic regress are Infinitism, Coherentism and Foundationalism. (shrink)
- Belief, Knowledge and Faith: A Logical Modal Theory.J. Nescolarde-Selva,J. L. Usó-Doménech &H. Gash -2020 -Foundations of Science 26 (2):453-474.The concept of God is studied using the ontological argument of Anselm of Canterbury that proves God’s existence using a syllogism based on ontology. Unlike metaphysical arguments that demonstrate the existence of God through the study of being and its attributes, the ontological argument aims to reach this same goal based on a concept of God by means of the idea of an entity “greater than anything that can be conceived”. Descartes’ influence highlighted some of the philosophical difficulties with the (...) inherent dualism implicit in ontology. Logic does not say whether ideas are true or false, as Logic is concerned with right or wrong inference. We take a non-dualist approach in contrast to some of the approaches reviewed. To investigate belief and faith, a modal logical formalization is used, especially modal logic S5, which we find appropriate for presenting arguments. While mathematics and logic can convince, they do not help one to believe in God. This can make us think that reason is not enough to accept God, one must have faith to have access to Him. The relation between reason and faith needs clarification, and the ontological argument requires an unsustainable dualism. (shrink)
- Impure Systems and Ecological Models : Components and Thermodynamics.Josué-Antonio Nescolarde-Selva,José-Luis Usó-Doménech &Miguel Lloret-Climent -2019 -Foundations of Science 24 (3):427-455.This paper refers to a subjective approach to Ecosystems, referred to as Impure Systems to capture a set of fundamental properties. There are four main phenomenological components: directionality, intensity, connection energy and volume. A fundamental question in this approach to Impure Systems is the intensity or forces of a relation. Concepts as the system volume, and propose a system thermodynamic theory based in the Law of Zipf and the temperature of information are introduced. It hints at the possibility of adapting (...) the fractal theory by introducing the fractal dimension of the system. (shrink)
- La percepción del paisaje como elemento modernizador de las sociedades.JavierSelva -2005 -Contrastes: Revista Cultural 40:43-45.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Psychobiological Explanations in Decision-making and Neuroeconomics.José María MartínezSelva -2018 - In Wenceslao J. González,Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject: New Reflections on James Woodward’s Contribution. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 139-158.No categories
- Model, Metamodel and Topology.J. Nescolarde-Selva &J. L. Usó-Doménech -2014 -Foundations of Science 19 (3):285-288.This reply to Gash’s (Found Sci 2013) commentary on Nescolarde-Selva and Usó-Doménech (Found Sci 2013) answers the three questions raised and at the same time opens up new questions.
- Myth, language, and complex ideologies.Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva &Josep-Lluis Usó-Doménech -2014 -Complexity 20 (2):63-81.
- Yoga and health.Selva Raja Yesudian -1953 - London,: Allen & Unwin. Edited by Haich, Elisabeth & [From Old Catalog].Export citation Bookmark
- Yoga uniting East and West.Selva Raja Yesudian -1956 - London,: Allen & Unwin. Edited by Haich, Elisabeth & [From Old Catalog].Export citation Bookmark
- Ideological Complex Systems: Mathematical Theory.Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva,José Luis Usó-Doménech &Miguel Lloret-Climent -2016 -Complexity 21 (2):47-65.No categories
- Beliefs, Epistemic Regress and Doxastic Justification.J. A. Nescolarde-Selva,J. L. Usó-Doménech,L. Segura-Abad &H. Gash -forthcoming -Foundations of Science:1-39.By justification we understand what makes a belief epistemologically viable: generally this is considered knowledge that is true. The problem is defining this with a higher degree of precision because this is where different conflicting conceptions appear. On the one hand, we can understand justification as what makes it reasonable to acquire or maintain a belief; on the other, it is what increases the probability that the belief is true. This work tries to prove that beliefs depend on other beliefs (...) that are epistemically justified and that such beliefs are the result of (i.e., they arise from) our privileged intuition of reality. For this, we examine the concept of epistemic regress. Epistemic reasons authorize a proposition P to be the conclusion of an argument in which such reasons function as premises and are vulnerable to epistemic regress. The three most important approaches to epistemic regress are Infinitism, Coherentism and Foundationalism. (shrink)
- Textual Theory and Complex Belief Systems: Topological Theory.J. Nescolarde-Selva &J. L. Usó-Doménech -2016 -Foundations of Science 21 (1):153-175.In order to establish patterns of materialization of the beliefs we are going to consider that these have defined mathematical structures. It will allow us to understand better processes of the textual, architectonic, normative, educative, etc., materialization of an ideology. The materialization is the conversion by means of certain mathematical correspondences, of an abstract set whose elements are beliefs or ideas, in an impure set whose elements are material or energetic. Text is a materialization of ideology and it is any (...) representation of the Reality represented by symbolic means. In all text T we can observe diverse topological structures: Metric Textual Space, Textual Topology and a Textual Lattice. (shrink)
- Chance and Necessity: Hegel’s Epistemological Vision.J. Nescolarde-Selva,J. L. Usó-Doménech &H. Gash -2024 -Foundations of Science 29 (2):351-375.In this paper the authors provide an epistemological view on the old controversial random-necessity. It has been considered that either one or the other form part of the structure of reality. Chance and indeterminism are nothing but a disorderly efficiency of contingency in the production of events, phenomena, processes, i.e., in its causality, in the broadest sense of the word. Such production may be observed in natural and artificial processes or in human social processes (in history, economics, society, politics, etc.). (...) Here we touch the object par excellence of all scientific research whether natural or human. In this work, is presented a hypothesis whose practical result satisfies the Hegelian dialectic, with the consequent implication of their mutual reciprocal integration_._ Producing abstractions, without which, there is no thought or knowledge of any kind, from the concrete, that is, the real problem, which in this case is a given Ontological System or Reality. (shrink)
- The Psychiatric Patient as a Health Resource Consumer: Costs Associated with Electroconvulsive Therapy.CarmenSelva-Sevilla,Maria Luisa Gonzalez-Moral &Maria Teresa Tolosa-Perez -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7.
- An evaluation of instruments measuring behavioural aspects of the nurse–patient relationship.Rebecca Feo,SheelaKumaran,Tiffany Conroy,Louise Heuzenroeder &Alison Kitson -2022 -Nursing Inquiry 29 (2):e12425.The Fundamentals of Care Framework is an evidence‐based, theory‐informed framework that conceptualises high‐quality fundamental care. The Framework places the nurse–patient relationship at the centre of care provision and outlines the nurse behaviours required for relationship development. Numerous instruments exist to measure behavioural aspects of the nurse–patient relationship; however, the literature offers little guidance on which instruments are psychometrically sound and best measure the core relationship elements of the Fundamentals of Care Framework. This study evaluated the quality of nurse–patient relationship instruments (...) by (1) assessing their content development and measurement properties (e.g. dimensionality, targeting, reliability, validity) and (2) mapping instrument content to the Framework's core relationship elements: trust, focus, anticipate, know, and evaluate. Twenty‐seven instruments were evaluated. Findings demonstrated that patients and nurses were rarely involved in item development. Most instruments exhibited poor measurement properties, with only one instrument having complete information on all quality indicators. Instrument content focused primarily on nurses getting to know patients and earning their trust, with only 54, 18, and 1 item(s), respectively, measuring ‘focus’, ‘anticipate’ and ‘evaluate’. Hence, there does not appear to be a robust instrument measuring behavioural aspects of nurse–patient relationships, nor one capturing the relationship elements of the Fundamentals of Care Framework. (shrink)No categories
- Reseña de la evolucion Del paisaje rural en la provincia de tucuman.Selva E. Santillán de Andrés -1966 -Humanitas 13 (19-21):59.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Effects of social and affective content on exogenous attention as revealed by event-related potentials.Vladimir Kosonogov,Jose M. Martinez-Selva,Eduvigis Carrillo-Verdejo,Ginesa Torrente,Luis Carretié &Juan P. Sanchez-Navarro -2019 -Cognition and Emotion 33 (4):683-695.ABSTRACTThe social content of affective stimuli has been proposed as having an influence on cognitive processing and behaviour. This research was aimed, therefore, at studying whether automatic exogenous attention demanded by affective pictures was related to their social value. We hypothesised that affective social pictures would capture attention to a greater extent than non-social affective stimuli. For this purpose, we recorded event-related potentials in a sample of 24 participants engaged in a digit categorisation task. Distracters were affective pictures varying in (...) social content, in addition to affective valence and arousal, which appeared in the background during the task. Our data revealed that pictures depicting high social content captured greater automatic attention than other pictures, as reflected by the greater amplitude and shorter latency of anterior P2, and anterior and posterior N2 components of the ERPs. In addition, social content also provoked greater allocation of processing resour... (shrink)
- Perceptions of members of ethics committees of medical institutions in India on controlled human infection studies (CHIS) following a sensitization workshop: a systematic survey.Subitha Lakshminarayanan,P. MuthuKumaran,Suganya Jayaram,Jayanthi Mathaiyan &Medha Rajappa -forthcoming -Monash Bioethics Review:1-14.Controlled Human Infection Studies (CHIS) involving the deliberate exposure of healthy individuals to infectious agents, are emerging as a valuable tool for medical research. This systematic survey explores the perceptions of ethics committee members from various Indian medical research institutions after participating in a sensitization workshop on CHIS. This cross-sectional study was conducted on the workshop participants through an online survey. The workshop was held in a hybrid mode and around 60 participants from four tertiary care institutions and research institutes (...) had participated. A structured questionnaire was used to assess their evolving perspectives, challenges, and recommendations related to CHIS and the effectiveness of the workshop. Both Likert scale and open-ended items were included in the survey. Responses are presented as percentage and views supported through the quotes from responses. Around 43 participants responded to the survey (72%). Participants acknowledged the potential benefits of CHIS but were concerned about the psychological harm and other risks. Challenges were identified in conducting and reviewing CHIS, including regulatory approvals, risk assessment, and robust informed consent. The need for development of regulatory guidelines, specialized training, risk mitigation strategies, community engagement, and compensation mechanisms were highlighted. The sensitization workshop was considered valuable in enhancing participants' understanding of CHIS, although participants expressed a need for continued training and experience to effectively review such studies. With the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) releasing a policy statement on ethical conduct of CHIS in India, this study provides a foundation for future capacity-building initiatives among ethics committee members. The findings emphasize the significance of ongoing dialogue to standardize the ethical review process for CHIS, thus facilitating their acceptance and realization in India's medical research landscape. (shrink)No categories
- Lower Income Hindu Women’s Attitude Towards Abortion.Bindu Madhok &Selva J. Raj -2004 -International Journal of Applied Philosophy 18 (1):123-137.After a brief discussion of Hindu views on abortion as reflected in classical Hindu philosophical and religious texts, this article examines, from an interdisciplinary perspective, current social attitudes towards abortion among lower-income Hindu women in Calcutta and attempts to identify the reasons for the striking disparity between traditional and modern Hindu views. Does Hindu dharma have the regulatory power it wielded in the past? What accounts for the changing face of mores in urban centers like Calcutta? These and related issues (...) are the focus of this essay. (shrink)
- Functional Cerebral Specialization and Decision Making in the Iowa Gambling Task: A Single-Case Study of Left-Hemispheric Atrophy and Hemispherotomy.Varsha Singh,Kapil Chaudhary,S. SenthilKumaran,Sarat Chandra &Manjari Tripathi -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.
- José Chasin: a ontonegatividade da politicidade em Marx.AnaSelva Albinati -forthcoming -Verinotio – Revista on-line de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas.O propósito desse artigo é apresentar o trabalho realizado por José Chasin na elucidação de um aspecto central do pensamento de Marx, que é a crítica à política. Não se trata só da conhecida questão do fim do Estado, uma vez que essa se coloca no interior de uma determinação mais ampla que é a da necessidade, da origem e do significado da política, reflexão desenvolvida por Marx, que conduz à consequente negação da politicidade enquanto atributo inerente à existência social, (...) aspecto que Chasin procura explicitar na obra do autor e que é fundamental para o resgate do sentido profundo da proposição marxiana, qual seja, a possibilidade da emancipação humana, desentranhada das ilusões sobre as quais se sustenta a concepção tradicional da política. (shrink)
- De las promesas de la Cumbre a la crisis global: la brecha digital en América Latina.Alma Rosa Alva de laSelva -2013 -Telos: Cuadernos de Comunicación E Innovación 94:24-30.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.David Silver,Thomas Hubert,Julian Schrittwieser,Ioannis Antonoglou,Matthew Lai,Arthur Guez,Marc Lanctot,Laurent Sifre,DharshanKumaran,Thore Graepel,Timothy Lillicrap,Karen Simonyan &Demis Hassabis -2017 -.No categories
- Mathematical, Philosophical and Semantic Considerations on Infinity : General Concepts.José-Luis Usó-Doménech,Josué Antonio NescolardeSelva &Mónica Belmonte Requena -2016 -Foundations of Science 21 (4):615-630.In the Reality we know, we cannot say if something is infinite whether we are doing Physics, Biology, Sociology or Economics. This means we have to be careful using this concept. Infinite structures do not exist in the physical world as far as we know. So what do mathematicians mean when they assert the existence of ω? There is no universally accepted philosophy of mathematics but the most common belief is that mathematics touches on another worldly absolute truth. Many mathematicians (...) believe that mathematics involves a special perception of an idealized world of absolute truth. This comes in part from the recognition that our knowledge of the physical world is imperfect and falls short of what we can apprehend with mathematical thinking. The objective of this paper is to present an epistemological rather than an historical vision of the mathematical concept of infinity that examines the dialectic between the actual and potential infinity. (shrink)
- Data analysis using circular causality in networks.M. Lloret-Climent &J. Nescolarde-Selva -2014 -Complexity 19 (4):15-19.No categories
- Book Reviews : Subhash Sharma, Management in New Age— Western Windows Eastern Doors. New Delhi: New Age International (P) Limited, Publishers, 1996, 221 pp., Rs 160. [REVIEW]ElanKumaran Uti -1997 -Journal of Human Values 3 (1):139-141.No categories
- Book Reviews : Madhurendra K. Varma, Managing More Effectively: A Professional Approach to get the Best out of People. New Delhi: Response Books, A division of Sage Publications, 1997, 283 pp. Rs 295. [REVIEW]ElanKumaran Uti -1998 -Journal of Human Values 4 (1):125-128.
- Building machines that learn and think for themselves.Matthew Botvinick,David G. T. Barrett,Peter Battaglia,Nando de Freitas,DarshanKumaran,Joel Z. Leibo,Timothy Lillicrap,Joseph Modayil,Shakir Mohamed,Neil C. Rabinowitz,Danilo J. Rezende,Adam Santoro,Tom Schaul,Christopher Summerfield,Greg Wayne,Theophane Weber,Daan Wierstra,Shane Legg &Demis Hassabis -2017 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.No categories
- What information and the extent of information research participants need in informed consent forms: a multi-country survey.Juntra Karbwang,Nut Koonrungsesomboon,Cristina E. Torres,Edlyn B. Jimenez,Gurpreet Kaur,Roli Mathur,Eti N. Sholikhah,Chandanie Wanigatunge,Chih-Shung Wong,Kwanchanok Yimtae,Murnilina Abdul Malek,Liyana Ahamad Fouzi,Aisyah Ali,Beng Z. Chan,Madawa Chandratilake,Shoen C. Chiew,Melvyn Y. C. Chin,Manori Gamage,Irene Gitek,Mohammad Hakimi,Narwani Hussin,Mohd F. A. Jamil,Pavithra Janarsan,Madarina Julia,Suman Kanungo,Panduka Karunanayake,Sattian Kollanthavelu,Kian K. Kong,Bing-Ling Kueh,Ragini Kulkarni,Paul P.Kumaran,Ranjith Kumarasiri,Wei H. Lim,Xin J. Lim,Fatihah Mahmud,Jacinto B. V. Mantaring,Siti M. Md Ali,Nurain Mohd Noor,Kopalasuntharam Muhunthan,Elanngovan Nagandran,Maisarah Noor,Kim H. Ooi,Jebananthy A. Pradeepan,Ahmad H. Sadewa,Nilakshi Samaranayake,Shalini Sri Ranganathan,Wasanthi Subasingha,Sivasangari Subramaniam,Nadirah Sulaiman,Ju F. Tay,Leh H. Teng,Mei M. Tew,Thipaporn Tharavanij,Peter S. K. Tok,Jayanie Weeratna &T. Wibawa -2018 -BMC Medical Ethics 19 (1):1-11.Background The use of lengthy, detailed, and complex informed consent forms is of paramount concern in biomedical research as it may not truly promote the rights and interests of research participants. The extent of information in ICFs has been the subject of debates for decades; however, no clear guidance is given. Thus, the objective of this study was to determine the perspectives of research participants about the type and extent of information they need when they are invited to participate in (...) biomedical research. Methods This multi-center, cross-sectional, descriptive survey was conducted at 54 study sites in seven Asia-Pacific countries. A modified Likert-scale questionnaire was used to determine the importance of each element in the ICF among research participants of a biomedical study, with an anchored rating scale from 1 to 5. Results Of the 2484 questionnaires distributed, 2113 were returned. The majority of respondents considered most elements required in the ICF to be ‘moderately important’ to ‘very important’ for their decision making. Major foreseeable risk, direct benefit, and common adverse effects of the intervention were considered to be of most concerned elements in the ICF. Conclusions Research participants would like to be informed of the ICF elements required by ethical guidelines and regulations; however, the importance of each element varied, e.g., risk and benefit associated with research participants were considered to be more important than the general nature or technical details of research. Using a participant-oriented approach by providing more details of the participant-interested elements while avoiding unnecessarily lengthy details of other less important elements would enhance the quality of the ICF. (shrink)
- Programas de renda mínima no Brasil: impactos e potencialidades.Silvio Caccia Bava,Vera da Silva Telles,Selva Ribas Bejerano,Carlos Henrique Araújo &Nair Heloísa Bicalho de Sousa -forthcoming -Polis.Export citation Bookmark
- Theorizing About Theories and Mathematical Existence.J. L. Usó-Doménech,J. A. Nescolarde-Selva &H. Gash -2020 -Foundations of Science 25 (3):587-595.Suppes proposes an analysis of the structure and identity of empirical theories with his model-theoretical approach and undertakes effective reconstructions of theories in diverse disciplinary fields. Here the authors analyse the results of these examinations under the optics of questions concerning the assumed ontological commitments, and for how they satisfy economic and other criteria.
- “Unintended effects”: A theorem for complex systems.J. L. Usó-Doménech,J. Nescolarde-Selva &M. Lloret-Climent -2016 -Complexity 21 (2):342-354.
- Revealing the Face of Isis.J. L. Usó-Doménech &J. Nescolarde-Selva -2014 -Foundations of Science 19 (3):311-318.This reply to Gash’s (Found Sci 2014) commentary on Nescolarde-Selva and Usó-Doménech (Found Sci 2014b) answers the questions raised and at the same time opens up new questions.
- What are Belief Systems?J. L. Usó-Doménech &J. Nescolarde-Selva -2015 -Foundations of Science 21 (1):147-152.In beliefs we live, we move and we are [...] the beliefs constitute the base of our life, the land on which we live [...] All our conduct, including the intellectual life, depends on the system of our authentic beliefs. In them [...] lies latent, as implications of whatever specifically we do or we think [...] the man, at heart, is believing or, which is equal, the deepest stratum of our life, the spirit that maintains and carries all the others, (...) is formed by beliefs...We know that the human being is a social animal. This is a common fact. Moreover, the human being is defined as a rational being. It is clear and nobody can deny that human creations include logic, mathematics, philosophy, science, and jurisprudence. These are all products of rationality or abstract thought. Nevertheless, human sociability goes further that the sociability of an animal herd. Societies were founded, cohere, develop, degenerate and die based on their belief systems. Reason cannot prove the .. (shrink)
- Grip Strength, Neurocognition, and Social Functioning in People WithType-2 Diabetes Mellitus, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia.María Aliño-Dies,Joan Vicent Sánchez-Ortí,Patricia Correa-Ghisays,Vicent Balanzá-Martínez,Joan Vila-Francés,GabrielSelva-Vera,Paulina Correa-Estrada,Jaume Forés-Martos,Constanza San-Martín Valenzuela,Manuel Monfort-Pañego,Rosa Ayesa-Arriola,Miguel Ruiz-Veguilla,Benedicto Crespo-Facorro &Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos -2020 -Frontiers in Psychology 11.Background: Frailty is a common syndrome among older adults and patients with several comorbidities. Grip strength is a representative parameter of frailty because it is a valid indicator of current and long-term physical conditions in the general population and patients with severe mental illnesses. Physical and cognitive capacities of people with SMIs are usually impaired; however, their relationship with frailty or social functioning have not been studied to date. The current study aimed to determine if GS is a valid predictor (...) of changes in cognitive performance and social functioning in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus and SMIs. Methods: Assessments of social functioning, cognitive performance, and GS were conducted in 30 outpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, 35 with major depressive disorder, 42 with bipolar disorder, 30 with schizophrenia, and 28 healthy controls, twice during 1-year, follow-up period. Descriptive analyses were conducted using a one-way analysis of variance for continuous variables and the chi-squared test for categorical variables. Differences between groups for the motor, cognitive, and social variables at T1 and T2 were assessed using a one-way analysis of covariance, with sex and age as co-variates. To test the predictive capacity of GS at baseline to explain the variance in cognitive performance and social functioning at T2, a linear regression analysis was performed. Results: Predictive relationships were found among GS when implicated with clinical, cognitive, and social variables. These relationships explained changes in cognitive performance after one year of follow-up; the variability percentage was 67.7%, in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus and 89.1% in patients with schizophrenia. Baseline GS along with other variables, also predicted changes in social functioning in major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, with variability percentages of 67.3, 36, and 59%, respectively. Conclusion: GS combined with other variables significantly predicted changes in cognitive performance and social functioning in people with SMIs or type-2 diabetes mellitus. Interventions aimed to improve the overall physical conditions of patients who have poor GS could be a therapeutic option that confers positive effects on cognitive performance and social functioning. (shrink)
- The evolutionary context of chronic allergic conditions.A. Magdalena Hurtado,Kim Hill,I. Arenas de Hurtado &Selva Rodriguez -1997 -Human Nature 8 (1):51-75.The question of why populations with ecologies that resemble our evolutionary past rarely experience allergic conditions such as asthma has intrigued many biomedical scientists. Here we present descriptive data on the ecological context of allergic sensitization among the Hiwi of southwestern Venezuela and suggest reasons for why this and other lowland South American Indian groups do not express the allergic response at levels seen in industrialized contexts. Allergic sensitization among the Hiwi appears to be negligible. This absence occurs in the (...) context of high exposure to macroparasites (mainly hookworm), nutritional stress, frequent and prolonged breastfeeding, low indoor allergen deposition, and few hours spent per day indoors. We conclude that seeking unidimensional answers to the question of why isolated human groups generally experience few allergic conditions is potentially flawed because allergies are produced by a multifaceted immunoglobulin E (IgE) system that responds in complex ways to the environmental and behavioral exposures we examined. Instead, we propose a general model of physiological trade-offs in energy allocation between production of IgE of undefined specificity and production of allergen-specific IgE. In addition, we consider the simultaneous effects that exposures such as nutritional stress, allergen exposure, and breastfeeding may have on these trade-offs. (shrink)
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