Intention, action planning, and decision making in parietal-frontal circuits.

The posterior parietal cortex and frontal cortical areas to which it connects are responsible for sensorimotor transformations. This review covers new research on four components of this transformation process: planning, decision making, forward…

There has been rapid growth in the number of ambulatory surgical centers in the United States over the past few years. Yet little research has been done to assist community health planners and surgeons in decision making and planning for ambulatory…

The need to plan for future health care and residential adjustments increases with age, growing frailty, and restrictions in coverage of long-term care and will continue to grow with population aging. Older adults' lack of financial preparation for…

This paper aims to test the direct predictors of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), action planning and coping planning as predictors of changes in physical activity (PA) in 157 adolescents (mean age: 12). TPB measures, the Action Planning and…

Rational decision making is concerned with the selection of a specific alternative which, within the best available knowledge, is most preferable in terms of some judgment. In this paper we shall model a decision making process which represents how…

Current advances in discharge planning have focused on comprehensive assessment, levels of care, and reducing the length of hospital stays. However, evidence also indicates the importance of involving patients and their families in making decisions…

Much communicative planning is consensus oriented and rests on ideas of deliberative democracy. Planning recommendations made by dialogue are based on the intellectual force of arguments giving reasoned rankings of the planning alternatives.…

In the process of enterprise architecture planning, the As-Is architecture is considered as a baseline architecture, and target-architecture is designed on its basis. The use of enterprise architecture maturity is one of the methods of enterprise…

The sequential organization of events within a script, can be considered as a means to explore the cognitive mechanisms involved in action planning. Scripts are composed of goal-oriented sequences of events that typically occur in a specific and…

Forest resources and related benefits represent an important part of fulfilling the human need for energy, raw materials and quality of life. These potential benefits of forests cover a broad specter of goods and services. Among other things, they…