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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Decision-calculus."”.
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The Role of Higher Education in Advancing Nurse Practitioners: A Look at the Institutional Decision Calculus of a Health Sciences University
… practice (DNP). This research examines the decision-making process involved in implementing a web-based DNP program in 2008 at a college of graduate nursing embedded in a health sciences university. Findings from two case studies, one of faculty and one of administrators, provide a narrative …
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The Challenge of Modifying Deviant Behavior: Restructuring Incentives in Renegade Regimes
… the potential for a pressure to restructure the decision process in a non-desired way. This thesis contrasts the expectations of rational choice and expected-utility theory with prospect theory in the decision calculus of renegade regimes. Finally, this thesis creates a basic model for limited …
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Essays on the Management of Online Platforms: Bayesian Perspectives
… and Making in Matching Markets: A Managerial Decision Calculus," extends the empirical model and analytical work to a class of commonly encountered one-sided matching market problems. It provides the conceptual outline of a decision calculus that allows managers to explore the revenue and …
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Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction
… agency action and agency implementation of those decisions as a single process rather than independent events. My theory focuses on three key factors that influence this process: the salience of the issues in a given case, the ideological congruence between the court and agency, and the …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
… an undertheorized and variations on autocrat’s decision calculus for prioritizing repression over co-optation, vice versa. Drawing from this, I make two assumptions that state: 1. Low resource endowment leads to high repression, and 2. High resource endowment leads to low repression and high …
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The behavior of regulatory commissions: a case study of the Virginia State Corporation Commission
… regarding a particular issue. The primary decision variable suggested by all of the theories is the budget of the agency. It was concluded that this measure is too narrow, whether we are dealing with a traditional theory, where budget is a measure of agency vitality, or a bureaucratic …