Real Intention Research Articles

The Role of Lobbying in the Decision-Making Process in the European Union

Abstract Lobbying in the modern world is becoming part of decision-making processes at the local, state, supranational and global levels. The lobbying process is characterized by the use of various techniques and tools, which is why there are many definitions. In the European Union, it is perceived as a European representation of interests, through which different groups try to influence the decision-making process in the various institutions. Lobbying is often referred to when it is necessary to describe a particular political process, event or phenomenon that has not reached the general public or has remained opaque due to its specific nature. As lobbying becomes increasingly important, this article aims to clarify what lobbying is and what its legitimate and acceptable forms are. It is not without reason that there is a general distrust of the lobbying process and, in particular, of the real intentions of lobbyists. Therefore, many people believe that such activities distort the political process in terms of transparency, integrity and influence. Given the sensitive nature of the topic of lobbying, some good practices from existing lobbying rules at European level will also be considered.

PESSOA COM DEFICIÊNCIA E A OBRIGAÇÃO DE INCLUIR NA EDUCAÇÃO: REFLEXOS DA DECISÃO NA AÇÃO DIRETA DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDADE N.º 5357 E A MARCA HISTÓRICA DO ACESSO À EDUCAÇÃO

This article intends to present the effects of the decision issued in the Direct Action of Unconstitutionality No. 5357 presented before the Federal Supreme Court in the process of inclusion of the disabled person, triggered in Brazil from the edition of the 1988 Federal Constitution. Our purpose is to demonstrate that the trajectory of the real social inclusion of people with disabilities, originated by the text finds obstacles in the interpretation of the Constitution, especially in relation to the hierarchy of international treaties for the protection of human rights when integrated into the Brazilian normative system. We consign that, the divergences related to the understanding of the real intention of inclusion presented by the creators of the Constitution were overcome in the case that we analyzed both by the modification of the Constitution and by the understanding that the Supreme Federal Court gave to the specific case of ADIn no 5357, the which represented an important milestone for the use of education as an instrument of real inclusion in the Brazilian model.

Game patterns in padel: a sequential analysis of elite men players

ABSTRACT The aims of this study were to identify key game patterns and to determine the sequential relationship between each possible combination to assess the usefulness and effectiveness of certain behaviours in elite men padel players. A total of 3,811 stroke-by-stroke actions were collected from 12 sets from five final games of the professional men’s padel championship World Padel Tour (WPT). A multievent sequential data analysis was conducted to determine the interaction and transition probabilities between game patterns. The findings revealed that high-level padel competition is mostly defined by 10 to 40 game patterns and interactions, thus players should mask their real intentions to increase the opponents’ uncertainty. Because volleys and smashes were equally effective but smashes were more likely to fail by an unforced error, players could refine their offensive strategies by a better domain of volleys to solve the point, while reducing the use of definitive smashes for particular situations. Likewise, the use of aggressive backwall counterattacks in response to smashes seems to be an effective offensive strategy in high-level padel players. These findings contribute to a better knowledge of high-level padel game dynamics while providing coaches and players useful information to optimise the training and decision-making strategies.

An overview of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Implications in geo-strategy and geo-politics

China is a very interesting country, and the entire world is looking at it. This is not only because of its spectacular rise in the world stage and the fact that it has become one of the largest markets in the world. China has become a superpower economically as well as militarily. Simultaneously it has a penchant for doing things differently – from the established norms and practices, as followed primarily by the West. It is likely that China will be in a position to challenge USA shortly as the number one power in the world. It is also likely that China will soon be influencing world events in a major way. These are the primary reasons for undergoing this study. The specific objective is to understand in detail one of the grandest and most ambitious schemes floated by any country in modern times - that of the Belt and Road Initiative by China. The author is sure that this project will have a very substantial impact on the strategies and politics of the entire world. The originality of this study is that it takes a macro-view of the entire initiative and dissects the implications for each major region of the entire world - in terms of strategy as well as politics. It wishes to connect Asia and Europe and also bring Africa into the project and thus form a unified market known as Afro-Eurasia. China, also known as PRC (People’s Republic of China), has developed tremendously in the past few decades and has now spare capacities as well as resources. So, it has initiated the project BRI wherein they are giving loans to underdeveloped countries to build infrastructure of these nations. There are two primary routes which PRC aims to develop. One of them is the land route called the BELT, which connects Europe to China over land. The other is the maritime route through the oceans which again connects the Eastern parts of China right up to Europe – and including Africa in between. The countries along these routes are being helped by China to develop their infrastructure like railways or seaports so that they may also emerge as modern logistics and distribution hubs for transporting goods between China and Europe. PRC thus ensures that it receives its continuous supply of energy requirements and other commodities for consumption. It will also be able to increase its exports right up to Western Europe through these routes which will save them a lot of time and costs also. Some nations are however skeptical about the real intentions of China. These countries think that China is emerging as a major superpower of the world and one day, it might want to dominate this part of the world entirely. Whether China has military intentions or not will be clear sometime later. As of today, China claims that its intentions are completely peaceful.

الدعوة إلى العامیة فی المعجمات العربیة للمستشرقین ( معجم تکملة المعاجم العربیة لدوزی نموذجا )

الملخص : ترتبط الدعوة إلى العامية بالاستشراق ارتباطا کبيرا، إذ أصبحت من أهداف المستشرقين الذين يريدون ضرورة معارضة اللغة الفصحى لغة القرآن، وکانت الدعوة إلى العامية سبيلا لتحقيق الهدف الکبير وهو إقصاء القرآن أساسا، ولا يتم إقصاء القرآن حتى تتوارى اللغة العربية، وذلک لا يتم إلا عن طريق وسائل التعليم. والدعوة إلى العامية کذلک محاولة لإيقاف نمو اللغة عن التوسع والحيلولة دون حرکتها مع انتشار الإسلام، ولا يشک عاقل في مدى التلازم الوثيق والارتباط المحکم بين اللغة والدين والأمة، وهذا ما أدرکه العلماء في القديم والحديث، حيث ربطوا ربطا محکما بين اللغة والإسلام. ولخطورة المعاجم في بناء اللغة وفهمها فقد قام المستشرقون بجهود کثيرة في مجال المعاجم العربية، ولعل ما يلفت النظر في جهودهم المعجمية خروجها غالبا عن نسق بناء المعاجم الأصلية، وإدخال کثير من الألفاظ العامية فيها، مما يفرض علي الباحثين العرب ضرورة نقد هذه المعاجم ومناقشة ما فيها بغية الکشف عن النوايا الحقيقية وراء صناعتها، وهل ما ورد فيها من هذا القبيل يرجع إلى جهل صانعيها بضوابط بناء المعاجم أو بسبب سوء النية والترويج للعامية؟ ويأتي هذا البحث ليناقش هذا الطرح (الفرض) من خلال منهج تحليلي نقدي لمعجم من أکبر المعاجم التي صنعها المستشرقون وهو معجم تکملة المعاجم العربية للمستشرق الهولندي لينهارت دوزي. وسوف أتناول هذه القضية في هذا البحث من خلال تمهيد ومبحثين أولا: مصادر دوزي في معجمه في ضوء قواعد المعجمية وضوابطها. ثانيا: علاقة معجم دوزي بالدعوة إلى العامية. وفي النهاية خاتمة تتضمن أهم النتائج التي توصل إليها البحث. Abstract The call to slang is highly related to orientalism, as it has become one of the objectives of orientalists who want to oppose the classical language of the Qur'an, and the call for slang was a way to achieve the great goal of excluding the Qur'an in the first place, and the Qur'an is not excluded until the Arabic language disappears, and this is done only through means of education. The call for slang is also an attempt to stop the growth of the Arabic language from expanding and preventing its movement with the spread of Islam, and there is no reasonable doubt about the extent of the close correlation between language, religion and the nation, as the scholars of the old and the modern realized, linking the Arabic language with Islam. Because of the seriousness of the dictionaries in building and understanding the Arabic language, orientalists have made many efforts in the field of Arabic dictionaries, and perhaps what is striking about their lexical efforts is their often departure from the pattern of building the original Arabic dictionaries, and the introduction of many collocy in them, which requires Arab researchers to criticize these dictionaries and discuss what is in them in order to reveal the real intentions behind their manufacture, and is it because of the ignorance of their makers about the controls of building Arab dictionaries or because of bad intentions and promotion of colloism? This research discusses this subtraction (imposition) through a critical analytical approach to one of the largest dictionaries made by orientalists, the dictionary Complement of Arabic Dictionaries by Dutch orientalist Linhart Dozi. I will address this issue in this research by preparing and examining First: Dozy's sources in his dictionary in light of the rules and controls of The Arab Lexical. Secondly, the Dozi dictionary has to do with the call to slang. In the end, the conclusion includes the most important findings of the research.

Hepatic Arterial Buffer Response in Liver Radioembolization and Potential Use for Improved Cancer Therapy.

Simple SummaryRadioembolization of hepatic tumors is performed by injecting 90Y or 166Ho loaded spheres into the hepatic artery. A twofold tumor to normal liver absorbed dose ratio is commonly obtained. In order to improve tumoral cell killing while preserving lobule function, co-injection of arterial vasoconstrictor has been proposed, but without success: the hepatic arterial buffer response quickly inhibits the arterioles vasoconstriction. The aim of the study is to investigate whether it is possible to take benefit from this buffer response, by co-infusing a mesenteric arterial vasodilator in order to dump the hepatic lobules arterial flow. Animal studies evidencing such mechanism are reviewed. Some potential mesenteric vasodilators are identified and their safety profile discussed. A four to sixfold improvement of the tumoral to normal tissue dose ratio is expected, pushing the therapy towards a real curative intention, especially in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), more frequent in obese subjects, and where ultra-selective spheres delivery is often not possible.Liver radioembolization is a treatment option for unresectable liver cancers, performed by infusion of 90Y or 166Ho loaded spheres in the hepatic artery. As tumoral cells are mainly perfused via the liver artery unlike hepatic lobules, a twofold tumor to normal liver dose ratio is commonly obtained. To improve tumoral cell killing while preserving lobules, co-infusion of arterial vasoconstrictor has been proposed but with limited success: the hepatic arterial buffer response (HABR) and hepatic vascular escape mechanism hamper the arterioles vasoconstriction. The proposed project aims to take benefit from the HABR by co-infusing a mesenteric arterial vasodilator: the portal flow enhancement inducing the vasoconstriction of the intra sinusoids arterioles barely impacts liver tumors that are mainly fed by novel and anarchic external arterioles. Animal studies were reviewed and dopexamine was identified as a promising safe candidate, reducing by four the hepatic lobules arterial flow. A clinical trial design is proposed. A four to sixfold improvement of the tumoral to normal tissue dose ratio is expected, pushing the therapy towards a real curative intention, especially in HCC where ultra-selective spheres delivery is often not possible.

Making Light of Convicts

Making Light of Convicts

LICENSE OR LIBERTY: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL LICENSURE’S MOVERS AND MOTIVES, 1870s to the 1910s

A profoundly important step in political development is the licensing of professions as quasi-public agencies of societal and especially economic governance. Medical licensing of the 1870s onward ranks as about the most important step in America’s move away from Jacksonian libertarianism toward a progressive social and political order. Social, political, and medical historians have paid little attention to the American medical licensure movement’s leaders and their motives, leaving other scholars to surmise and theorize about why licensing emerged in the 1870s. A near-hegemonic view holds that medical licensing was the work of state medical societies desiring to reduce the supply of physicians and thus prop up their incomes. Public regarding motives were at best secondary, and arguments about them were, supposedly, often subterfuge to hide real intent. An investigation of key figures in ten states behind their early medical practice acts and later improvements from the 1870s onward drastically undermines the pecuniary motive argument. Practically all were public health missionaries. Many were wealthy, and some were not even active medical practitioners. State medical societies only sometimes played a role, and often they were led by the public health missionaries who expected preventive action to reduce, not increase doctors’ incomes. In addition to the paternalistic motive of protecting citizens from unschooled and dangerous healers, they saw licensed physicians as de facto and real civil servants needed for the modern state, among other things, collecting quality vital statistics for tracking and researching disease, staffing public health departments for preventive measures, educating the public on hygiene, and more. Perversely, the initial laws triggered the formation of numerous, low-quality private for-profit medical schools because most laws required no more than a medical degree from a state chartered medical college. The licensure reform movement thus expanded to include reform of medical education, prompting progressive medical reformers and politicians to bring states into the regulation of medical education.

Enriching Social Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching

In this paper, we propose that unreflective use of the term social entrepreneurship may perpetuate the idea that “entrepreneurship” is largely a financial and private reality and that this view of entrepreneurship will eventually trivialize or perhaps undermine the important benefits and the real intentions behind the social entrepreneurship movement. We believe that Catholic Social Teaching can shed important light on this dilemma by emphasizing three specific strategies inherent to entrepreneurship when assessing the moral contribution of the firm. As a result, we argue for the principles of good goods, good work and good wealth as an alternative framework for all good entrepreneurial venture.

The effects of the activation of hostile and non-hostile schemas on intent attribution processes in non-aggressive individuals: An ERP study

ABSTRACT We investigated the influences of hostile and non-hostile schemas activations in non-aggressive individuals on their intent attribution processes in various social contexts. 38 non-aggressive participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups, one primed with negative words, to be conditioned as temporarily hostile (TH), and the other with positive words, be conditioned as temporarily non-hostile (TNH). They were asked to read social scenarios composed of positive or negative behaviors of others whose intentions are ambiguous followed by a disambiguation of others’ real intentions (hostile vs non-hostile) behind their behaviors. Neural activity related to spontaneous intent attribution processes was measured using electroencephalography (EEG). The results showed that when non-hostile intentions were revealed following ambiguous-negative behaviors of others, the N400 effect was observed only in the TH group. Similarly, when hostile intentions were revealed following ambiguous-positive behaviors of others, the N400 effect was observed only in the TNH group. In other words, non-aggressive individuals were led to attribute either hostile or non-hostile intentions to the same ambiguous behaviors of others depending on which concepts or thoughts (hostile vs non hostile) were activated and accessible in memory by priming at the time of social interactions.

Towards a New Framework Architecture for a Dynamic Composition of Components Using Context Awareness and User Goal

The dynamic composition of components is an emerging concept that aims to allow a new application to be constructed based on a user’s request. This is achieved by dynamically composing and assembling disturbed components with home ones. This paper presents a framework architecture for the dynamic composition of components that can extract pertinent contextual data and combine them with explicit/implicit intent, in order to compose the relevant components to meet the real requirements of the user. The proposed architecture includes a user feedback system that is appropriate for the use context in terms of the user profile and technical/domain knowledge. Our platform can consult the end user in order to resolve eventual composition ambiguities. The dynamic aspect of our proposition involves (i) the detection of environmental changes in response to dynamic triggers; (ii) interactive adaptation to internal changes and external stimuli; (iii) determination of the real intent of the end user; and (iv) dynamic generation of different composition plans and selection of the most appropriate option, based on context data and user intent.

Radioiodine therapy of Graves' disease.

Graves' disease (GD), the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, is an autoimmune disease directly caused by circulating autoantibodies that bind and activate the TSH receptor, inducing metabolic activation of the thyroid gland; this may be associated with important cardiac (atrial fibrillation) and ocular (ophthalmopathy) complications. Treating GD with real curative intent implies the full elimination of the functioning thyroid parenchyma using surgery or radioactive iodine therapy (RAI). RAI has been used in humans with hyperthyroidism since 1941, thanks to the pioneering work of a physician (Dr. Saul Hertz) and a physicist (Dr. Arthur Roberts). The rationale of RAI is based on the effect of radiation of 131I on target cells leading to DNA damage, both directly, through breakage of molecular bonds, and indirectly through the formation of free radicals. In particular, irradiation causes a broad spectrum of cellular damage due to the production of reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation of the plasma membrane. Thus, RAI-related cellular death takes place through both apoptosis and necrosis. The aim of this review was to summarize indications, efficacy, safety profile, and dosimetric aspects of RAI treatment in patients affected by GD.

Understanding equity repurchase motives for different firm set-up: Indian evidence

Corporates express their intention to reward shareholders during repurchase announcements by maximizing their wealth. However, most empirical research finds that stocks’ performance is poor when repurchase announcements are made, and there are no significant abnormal returns. In the Indian context, the present study examines firms’ real intention behind repurchase decisions. The sample comprises 132 firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) from 2012 to 2018. A Tobit regression model has been used on different firm set-up. The empirical results reveal that low stock valuation is the prominent reason for buybacks among corporates. Firms prefer repurchases to provide abnormal returns to the investors; however, the Indian market does not react much positively to the repurchases, and this might be the reason for less encouraging buybacks in the Indian market. Further, the tender offer is the most preferred mode to open market repurchases. In the case of service firms, undervaluation, low earnings, and low debt ratios are the contributing factors impacting repurchases. Firms with low dividend intend to have more buybacks to reduce their tax burden. Acknowledgment The infrastructural support provided by FORE School of Management, New Delhi in completing this paper is gratefully acknowledged.

Der Kaiser mit der Tiara. Spiegelungen und Wandlungen des ersten Romzuges Friedrichs III. in der italienischen Kunst

The journey to Rome which Frederick III undertook for his coronation as emperor was portrayed in a number of works of art, which were conceived along the route through Italy. However, these works of art were meant to serve as propaganda for the emperor only indirectly. As a matter of fact, those commissioning the works considered the symbolic power of the events and the authority of the Imperator Romanorum far more important in terms of ‘self-portrayal’. These works of art were indeed commissioned to celebrate the numerous promotions to the aristocracy or to a higher position within the aristocracy that Frederick III performed during his journey. Through the images depicted on medals and on illuminated manuscripts, the ennobled ones, who commissioned these works, aimed at associating their personal image and their memoria with the emperor. Particularly noteworthy are the panels of two cassoni, where Frederick’s two-day journey, his stay in Florence and the crowning ceremonies in Rome are depicted in multiple scenes. The cassoni were commissioned by the Medici family for Orlando de Medici, upon whom a knighthood was conferred by the emperor and who most likely participated in the crowning ceremony in Rome. However, a differentiated approach must be adopted in order to analyse the realistic representation of the pictures: on the one hand, these pictures have an important documentary value, whereby the topographical factors are also taken into account. On the other hand, they deviate significantly from the historical facts. One of the most striking differences lies in the central motif of the crown used by the pope during the ceremony, which does not reflect the standard type of the emperor’s crown but is portrayed as a variation of the papal tiara. The real intention behind this kind of choice remains unknown, but it does illustrate the cultural clashes related to the public’s perception of this ceremony which was to be the last coronation of an emperor performed in Rome by a pope.

Negotiation Process Between Israel and Syria During the Administration of Y. Rabin

The article is devoted to the study of the Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations. The process had several stages, but the period 1992-1995 can be considered as the most effective. It was during Yitzhak Rabin administration that Israel managed to sign peace agreements with Jordan and the PLO, as well as to build a full-fledged negotiation process with Syria, which has traditionally held the most intransigent stance towards Israel. Studying the evolution of the Israeli-Syrian negotiating process allows us to determine the real intentions and positions of the parties, as well as to sum up the role of the United States as a mediator. The research is based on the memoirs of American politicians and diplomats (B. Clinton, C. Warren, D. Ross, D. Kurtser), who were directly involved in the Israeli-Syrian dialogue, as well as members of the Israeli negotiating group (I. Rabinovich, U. Sagie, U. Savir). In general, the stage of negotiations can be divided into two stages: meetings at the level of ambassadors to discuss the general terms of the agreement and negotiations on security issues with the participation of senior military leaders. At the initial stage, the main issue for Syria was Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights and the restoration of the border before June 1967. For the Israeli side, the priority issue was security guarantees. It was after the decision had been made to focus on security principles that included both pillars that historic progress was achieved. For the first time in the history of the two states, such a compromise was formalized in an unofficial document, which remains the only bilateral agreement between the sides. The analysis of the stage based on memoirs of those who took part in negotiations allows to answer the question that is on the agenda nowadays: was H. Assad ready to sign an agreement with Israel or he pursued other goals during the peace process.

A CRIMINALIDADE ECONÔMICA NA PERSPECTIVA DECOLONIALISTA: REFLEXÕES SOBRE O SIMBOLISMO REPRESSIVO E A ABORDAGEM PREVENTIVA DAS POLÍTICAS DE COMPLIANCE

Based on the work “La nueva criminologia crítica criminológica: criminologia en tiempos de totalitarismo financieiro” by Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni and Ilisson Dias, this article aims to address the criminalization of financial crimes and the necessary reflection on the decolonialist perspective. therefore, the objective was, from the re-reading of works by latin american authors, with a qualitative approach, using the hypothetical-deductive method of Karl Popper, to answer the following question: given the criticisms formulated by Zaffaroni and Dias about the excess of criminal types in legal systems, mechanisms for not applying criminal sanctions in practice and all criminal symbolism, compliance policies could represent an important mechanism in the prevention of white-collar crimes and corruption, or if it would, once again , importing european and american institutes, maintaining the myth of eurocentrism and power structures, corroborating economic and social inequalities? The aim is, therefore, to analyze Sutherland's theory of white-collar crime and its contributions on criminology, in a second moment, to question the real intention in economic crimes, from then on, to present the integrity and comment on the particular latin american reality, especially the brazilian one.

Top-[formula omitted] star queries on knowledge graphs through semantic-aware bounding match scores

Large-scale knowledge graphs containing millions of entities are very common nowadays. Querying knowledge graphs is essential for a wide range of emerging applications, e.g., question answering and semantic search. A star query aims to identify an entity by giving a set of related entities, which is an important query type on knowledge graphs. Answering star queries can be modeled as a graph query problem. Given a query graph Q, the graph query finds subgraphs in a knowledge graph G that match Q. We face two challenges on graph query: (1) existing graph query methods usually find subgraphs that are structurally similar to Q, which cannot measure whether a subgraph match satisfies the semantics of Q (i.e., real query intention), leading to an effectiveness issue, and (2) querying a large-scale knowledge graph is usually time-consuming because of the large search space. In this paper, we propose a Top-k semantic-aware graph query method over knowledge graphs for star queries, which provides semantically similar matches for Q instead of structurally similar matches. The semantic similarity of a match to Q is measured by an online computed bounding match score. By using bounds, we can efficiently prune the unpromising matches with lower semantic similarities without evaluating all matches. Extensive experiments over three real-world knowledge graphs confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of our solution.

Elaborar publicidad generadora de feminismo: hacia una propuesta metodológica sobre "femvertising"

La estrategia de comunicación publicitaria denominada femvertising está siendo utilizada cada vez más por empresas en todo el mundo. Consiste en elaborar una comunicación publicitaria comprometida con la igualdad entre sexos y con un discurso positivo sobre y para las mujeres. Sin embargo, el carácter intrínsicamente comercial de la publicidad siempre pone bajo sospecha las verdaderas intenciones de las marcas, que pueden instrumentalizar en su beneficio aquellos movimientos sociales con prestigio. Es por ello que, en los todavía escasos análisis académicos sobre el fenómeno, suele primar la reflexión sobre la existencia o no de un feminismo espurio, así como la crítica al consumo y el modelo neoliberal, dejando en la oscuridad las cuestiones formales de una fórmula publicitaria que cada vez tiene más presencia. El presente texto, partiendo de la imposibilidad de diagnosticar el compromiso real o interesado de una firma, y aceptando que el consumo también puede implicar compromiso político, propone una metodología para la investigación sobre femvertising que prevalece sobre el debate entre la honestidad de las marcas y la responsabilidad social de sus mensajes.

Gradually evaluating of suicidal risk in depression by semi-supervised cluster analysis on resting-state fMRI.

A timely and effective evaluation of the suicidal ideation bears practical meaning, particularly for the depressive who tend to disguise the real suicide intent and without obvious symptoms. Measuring individual ideation of the depression with uncertain or transient suicide crisis is the purpose. Resting-state fMRI data were collected from 78 depressed patients with variable clinical suicidal crisis. Thirty subjects were well labeled as extremely serious individuals with suicide attempters or as without suicidal ideation. A feature mask was constructed via the two sample t-test on their regional conncectivities. Then, a semi-supervised machine learning frame using the feature mask was designed to assist in clarifying gradation of suicidal susceptibility for the residual forty-eight vaguely defined subjects, by a way of Iterative Self-Organizing Data analysis techniques (ISODATA). Such semi-supervised model was designed purposely to block out the effect of disease itself on the suicide intendancy evaluation. The vague-labeled patients were divided into another two different stages relating to their suicidal susceptibility. The distance ratio of each subject to the two well-defined extreme groups in the feature space can be utilized as the suicide risk index. The re-evaluation of the Nurses' Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR) via experts blind to original HAM-D rates was significantly correlated with the model estimation. The constructed model suggested its potential to examine the risk of suicidal in an objective way. The functional connectivity, locating mostly within the frontal-temporal circuit and involving the default mode network (DMN), were well integrated to discriminative the gradual susceptibility of suicidal.

What's So Special About Human Dignity?

What's So Special About Human Dignity?