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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Decision making support"”.
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Development of a decision support tool for transit network design evaluation
… As such, the need for efficient, pragmatic decision making on policy direction, infrastructure expenditure, or any transport interventions is becoming very critical. Thus, transport professionals are increasingly in need of tools to help them predict with increased accuracy the outcomes of …
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Increasing the Participation of Persons with Mental Illness in Mental Health Treatment Decision-Making
… participate in mental health treatment decision-making. This thesis answers the pivotal question of how we can increase the participation of involuntarily treated persons in the mental health treatment decision-making process. To achieve this goal, a participatory model of …
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Designing the Enterprise Architecture of an Innovative Plant Engineering Company
… structures and systems that simultaneously support existing and new business initiatives. Furthermore, to aid long-term investment decisions, this study developed a unique data-driven method, the Decision-Making Support Model (DMSM). Applying this model to a plant engineering company as a …
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Analyzing the evolving trends of the sustainable built environment
… of these significant tools and establishing a decision-making support framework to ease the standard selection process for responsible stakeholders, which are the two main research goals for this thesis paper. Besides, predictions of several sustainable building assessment standards and tools …
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The effectiveness of virtual facilitation in supporting GDSS appropriation and structured group decision making
… introduction a quarter of a century ago, group decision support systems (GDSS) have evolved from applications designed primarily to support decision making for groups in face-to-face settings, to their growing use for “web conferencing,” online collaboration, and distributed group …
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Supporting the contraceptive decision-making of adults with intellectual disabilities: A socio-legal examination
… disabilities have been denied the right to make decisions about their own lives. Today, debates continue regarding how to conceptualise decision-making rights and how people with cognitive or psychosocial disabilities should be supported to exercise them. However, relatively little socio-legal …
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Social and economic decision-making in Urbach-Wiethe Disease
… basolateral amygdala as indispensable for social decision-making. This finding has not yet been translated to humans, and has even been partially contradicted by previous findings in patients with amygdala lesions that show generous economic investments in strangers. This thesis therefore aimed to …
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Learning to Improve Clinical Decisions and AI Safety by Leveraging Structure
… health has great potential in providing clinical decision-making support that can improve quality of care and reduce healthcare spending by easing clinical operations. However, the successful development of ML models in healthcare is contingent on data that is complex, noisy, heterogeneous, …
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The administrator's role in reducing stressors in the school environment as identified by teachers in charter schools
… those in need feel safe requesting or accessing support. This study investigates the administrator's role in reducing stressors in the school environment as identified by teachers in charter schools. Specifically, the outcomes of the research answer the following questions: 1. What do teachers …
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The Experience of Decision-Making among Telephone Advice/Triage Nurses
… nurse is both complex and demanding. All decisions are made while assessing patients without seeing or touching patients. In addition, the role is often developed to decrease health care costs which can be perceived by nurses as being in conflict with their nursing beliefs. The ambiguous …
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Pebbles and Urns: A Tangible, Presence-Based Service Delivery Framework
… in new<br />architectures and frameworks that support large-scale IoT deployments beyond research<br />prototypes, simple and inexpensive human-to-device and device-to-device interfaces, and user<br />decision making support with opportunistic information services.<br /><br />This dissertation …
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Development of New Network-Level Optimization Model for Salem District Pavement Maintenance Programming
… challenging. Insufficient use of available smart decision-making tools impedes eliciting effective and efficient maintenance programs. Hence, this thesis presents the development and implementation of a network-level pavement maintenance optimization model which can be used by maintenance managers …
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Intelligent Blockchain Group-based Methodology for Renewable Energy Trading for Local Communities
… on assisting consumers in energy trading decisions based on their preferences is evident. This research addresses these challenges by proposing a novel methodology for community-based renewable energy trading. Leveraging blockchain for marketplace security, and integrating artificial …
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The Application Of Insurance As A Risk Management Tool For Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Implementation In Construction Disputes
… subjective loss. The model can serve as a decision-making support system to help project participants determine whether an ADR implementation insurance policy is attractive for a certain project. To illustrate the benefits of the proposed model, numerical examples are provided for …
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A framework for quality improvement and evaluation of a clinical decision support system in NICU environment in cross-cultural settings.
… quality improvement and evaluation of a clinical decision support system in cross-cultural settings. The framework extends a SPO model to a SPOE model, combines with the CRISP-DM model and the Patient Journey Model Architecture (PaJMa); with the purpose of providing a new approach for quality …
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Toward an Argumentation-based Dialogue framework for Human-Robot Collaboration
… games were developed to provide dialogue support for peer interaction. The work presented in this thesis is the first to apply argumentation theory and three different logic-based argumentation dialogues for use in human-robot collaboration. The research presented in this thesis …
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Biological Image Analysis Through Deep Learning Techniques
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Aviation environmental policy and issues of timescale
Every operational, technological, and policy decision affecting aviation represents a potential tradeoff among economic efficiency and impacts to climate, air quality, and community noise. Furthermore, effects in these domains occur over different temporal and spatial scales and with different …
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A knowledge based system for construction health and safety competence assessment
… inexperienced clients to discharge the duty of making the key decisions in H&S competence assessment. In order to help the client implement H&S competence assessment, it is important to develop a tool that can effectively and efficiently support the client to make reasonable decisions in the …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… find the best possible means of urban design to support the decision making via improving metabolic system and shaping urban form toward the self-sufficient cities to addresses two principal research questions: 1) How does URD contribute to the sustainability of the cities in the urban design …
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