Building bridges between doctors and patients: the design and pilot evaluation of a training session in argumentation for chronic pain experts

Shared decision-making requires doctors to be competent in exchanging views with patients to identify the appropriate course of action. In this paper we focus on the potential of a course in argumentation as a promising way to empower doctors in presenting their viewpoints and addressing those of patients. Argumentation is the communication process in which the speaker, through the use of reasons, aims to convince the interlocutor of the acceptability of a viewpoint. The value of argumentation skills for doctors has been addressed in the literature. Yet, there is no research on what a course on argumentation might look like. In this paper, we present the content and format of a training session in argumentation for doctors and discuss some insights gained from a pilot study that examined doctors' perceived strengths and limitations vis-à-vis this training

A Model for an Intelligent Support Decision System in Aquaculture

The paper purpose an intelligent software system agents–based to support decision in aquculture and the approach of fish diagnosis with informatics methods, techniques and solutions. A major purpose is to develop new methods and techniques for quick fish diagnosis, treatment and prophyilaxis at infectious and parasite-based known disorders, that may occur at fishes raised in high density in intensive raising systems. But, the goal of this paper is to presents a model of an intelligent agents-based diagnosis method will be developed for a support decision system.support decision system, diagnosis, multi-agent system, fish diseases

The role of emotional intelligence on the resolution of disputes involving the electronic health record

Numerous authors have expressed concerns that the introduction of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) will lead to an escalation of disputes. Some disputes will concern the accuracy of the record whereas others will arise simply due to greater access to health care records. Online dispute resolution (ODR) programs have been successfully applied to cost-effectively help disputants resolve commercial, insurance and other legal disputes, and can also facilitate the resolution of health care related disputes. However, we expect that health differs from other application domains in ODR because of the emotional engagement patients have with their health and those of loved ones. In this study we will be looking at whether the success of an online negotiation is related to how people recognise and manage emotions, and in particular, their Emotional intelligence score

The quality of political information

The article conceptualizes the quality of political information and shows how the concept can be used for empirical research. I distinguish three aspects of quality (intelligibility, relevance, validity) and use them to judge the constituent foundations of political information, that is component claims (statements of alleged facts) and connection claims (argumentative statements created by causally linking two component claims). The resulting conceptual map thus entails six manifestations of information quality (component claimintelligibility, connection claim intelligibility, component claimrelevance, connection claim relevance, component claim validity, and connection claim validity). I explain how the conceptual map can be used to make sense of the eclectic variety of existing research, and how it can advance new empirical research, as a guide for determining variation in information quality, as a conceptual template for the analysis of different types of political messages and their common quality deficiencies, and as a generator of new research questions and theoretical expectations

Establecimiento de líneas argumentativas en la resolución de un problema con enzimas

Este estudio analiza las líneas argumentativas seguidas por estudiantes de 4.º de ESO durante la resolución de un problema abierto en el que debían explicar las causas de la detención de las reacciones enzimáticas. Se parte de las líneas de razonamiento propuestas por Kelly, Regev y Prothero (2008) para elaborar, como herramienta de análisis, las líneas argumentativas, entendidas como una sucesión de fases desde los datos a la conclusión. Los resultados muestran que cada grupo elabora dos líneas argumentativas, las cuales integran más pruebas teóricas que empíricas. El uso de pruebas no apropiadas conduce a que alguna de las líneas argumentativas se considere no adecuada, pues no responde a la causa de la detención de dichas reacciones. El carácter interpretativo de las líneas argumentativas es una de sus limitaciones, pero permiten examinar el proceso argumentativo de los estudiantes.This study analyses the argumentative lines followed by students from 10th grade during the resolution of an open problem, in which they must explain the reasons why the enzymatic reactions stop. The lines of reasoning as proposed by Kelly, Regev and Prothero (2008) are taken as a reference to develop the argumentative lines, which are understood as a succession of phases from the data to the conclusion. The results show that each group develops two argumentative lines, which integrate theoretical rather than empirical evidence. The use of inappropriate evidence implies that some of the argumentative lines are considered inadequate, since students don't answer why enzyme reactions stop. The interpretative feature is one of the limitations of argumentative lines; however, they allow the examination of argumentative process followed by students

Constructing a Religious Worldview: Why Religious Antirealism is Still interesting

After a short overview of anti-realist positions within the philosophy of religion, the following paper argues in favour of a moderate version of religious anti-realism. especially the notions of ”revelation’ and ”religious experience’ seem to suggest that certain dichotomies that are typical for realism cannot be upheld consistently within philosophy of religion. However, the end of the paper shows a different route, which might overcome the realism/antirealism dichotomy as such