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Collective Decision-Making and Revenue Sharing
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SOCIAL AND REPUTATIONAL DRIVERS OF SUNK-COST SENSITIVITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
… Additional chapters show that voters reward decision-makers who stay committed and develop a framework explaining both cognitive and social costs of changing course. Together, the work explains when sunk costs bind—and when they don’t.
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Collective Decision Making in Tibetan Macaques: How Followers Affect the Rules and Efficiency of Group Movement
Primate societies must undergo successful collective decision making during group movement to stay cohesive and provide the ecological and evolutionary benefits of sociality. This study investigates how a fan structure facilitates successful group movement in the YA1 group of Tibetan macaques …
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The Vernacularisation of Indigenous Peoples' Participatory Rights in the Bolivian Extractive Sector: Including Subgroups in Collective Decision-Making Processes
One of the most comprehensive collective rights regimes has been developed in the area of indigenous peoples and respective land and resource rights in particular. International legal instruments (ILO C169 and UNDRIPS) and Inter-American jurisprudence (e.g. the Saramaka and Sarayaku cases) …
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Mediators: Participatory Collective Intelligence for Multi-Stakeholder Urban Decision-Making
… and more stakeholders become involved in decision-making, reaching consensus becomes the core challenge and the essence of the urbanism process. This thesis introduces a computational framework for AI-augmented collective decision-making in urban settings. Based on real-world case studies, …
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Comparing Quadratic Voting and Likert Surveys
… or QV, a voting mechanism designed to facilitate collective decision making. We compared the two surveying methods under scenarios in which a decision-maker had to choose among K options. First, we created a pretest that demonstrated the transferability of QV to an HCI context. We designed a large …
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Actualising children’s ideas for health-promoting neighbourhoods through impactful co-design: insights from children and adult decision-makers
… process being utilised to engage children in collective decision-making about neighbourhoods. An enduring gap exists between rhetoric and reality, with practical insights needed to support co-design that facilitates children’s meaningful participation towards tangible outcomes. My thesis aimed …
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Optimal feature selection and machine learning for high-level audio classification : a random forests approach
… learning with specific purposes. A final collective decision-making stage is employed to combine multiple class detectors patterns into one to produce a single classification result for each input frames. The performance of the proposed feature selection technique has been compared with …
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Frames and games : testing a public health orientation to climate adaptation planning
… of local climate-related health risks and collective decision-making capacities, and argue that cities should utilize face-to-face and digital game-based engagement in climate adaptation planning efforts. My dissertation concludes with recommendations for cities on how to use a variety of …
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Locating a Black Planning Tradition and Spatializing Black Nationalism
… understanding of alternative models for collective decision-making and resistance tactics and provides histories of Blackness, Muslimness, and planning practice as they intersect.
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Emergence
… and balance. Emergence is meant to provoke collective decision-making on the future of our species.
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Governance of the drinking water supply service: A case study of three Mexican communities
… attempts to understand the implications of decisions made by formal and informal institutions in order to find suitable ways of management. The theoretical problem this thesis responds to embraces water institutions governing and managing the DWSS. This thesis contributes to conceptualise …
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An Exploration of Palauan Fishing Methods and Fisheries: A Study for the Conservation of Dugongs
… of fishermen's cooperatives to facilitate collective decision-making and promote sustainable fishing practices. By integrating local knowledge and promoting sustainable fishing practices, this research provides a foundation for effective conservation strategies that safeguard dugongs' …
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Some multivariate problems of a spatial model of voting under majority rule
… of outstanding problems in the analysis of collective decision-making. More specifically, we specify the mathematical foundation for a spatial model of voting under majority rule, and, building upon that foundation, we make three contributions to the formal theory of public choice. First, we …
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Improving Swarm Performance by Applying Machine Learning to a New Dynamic Survey
… together as a group or a human swarm to make decisions. These human swarms amplify the decision-making capabilities of both the individuals and the group. One way Unanimous AI increases the swarm’s collective decision-making capabilities is by limiting the swarm to more informed individuals on …
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Improving behavioral decision making in operations and food safety management
… and the resulting group performance in collective decision making. We first investigate three different conditions on group discussion and find that while suggesting a process (without enforcement) significantly enhances information sharing, enforcing the process is a critical enabler …
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Central government instruments of influence upon services delivered by local government
… of Scottish evidence since 1970 shows. Collectively these instruments constitute parameters upon different services at different stages in the delivery of the service and define the discretion of local government actors. Central influence is not, however, to be confused with the use of …
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Voices of Black Youth:Creating Communicative Spaces in the Context of Heart Disease among African American Teenagers in Marion County Indiana
… that is often characterized by dialogue and collective decision making (d) participation in culture centered process is complex and also characterized by tensions about power, individual versus collective subjectivities (e) Reflexivity is a crucial methodological tool in culture centered …
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Challenges Facing Employees’ Career Development:The Case of Medical Stores Department Staff
… fair competition in employees’. Thirdly; to have collective decision making based on mutual consensus and self development.
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