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Showing 1 to 20 of 1640 for “"decision-makers"”.
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The Iranian hostage crisis decision-makers : victims of groupthink?
This study focuses on the decision-making process which occurs at the highest level of government during a time of political crisis. What makes it different from other studies into small-group decision-making is the use of first-person accounts from the decision-makers, themselves. Eight officials …
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Aggregation and influence in teams of imperfect decision makers
… probabilities of hypotheses. Motivated by human decision makers, this thesis studies how binary decision making is performed when the decision-making agents use imperfect prior probabilities. Three detection models with multiple agents are investigated: distributed detection with symmetric …
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Inventory, investment, and pricing policies for lot-size decision makers
… investment, and pricing policies for lot-size decision makers are examined based on classical economic order quantity. Specifically, we focus on investment in setup operations, investment in quality improvement, and market dependent products such as substitutes and complements. We examine …
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Multimodel Design of Large Scale Systems With Multiple Decision Makers
… situations are studied, which allow the decision makers to use different simplified models of the system. Three different approaches to multimodeling are examined. Firstly, within the framework of multiparameter singular perturbations, we demonstrate the well-posedness of an a-priori …
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Deriving Evidence for Healthcare Decision Makers: The Case of Patient Flow
In an ideal world, decision makers in health systems would make optimal decisions in a timely manner, fully informed by relevant information and evidence delivered in a timely way. This paradigm of Evidence-informed Decision Making (EIDM) is one that health systems can realistically strive for, so …
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Intraurban Industrial Location Factors From the Viewpoint of Manufacturing Decision-Makers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T04:57:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726690.pdf: 7289167 bytes, checksum: e953a6eb933e3d357993c77348619bef (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Capturing Residential Preference Changes through Perception Detections of Rationally Inattentive Decision Makers
… heteroskedasticity of different demographics in decision-making. The proposed methodology is validated by comparing its performance with comparable classical discrete choice models. Overall, the dissertation highlights the importance of high-quality data collection in the context of residential …
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Prediction Achievement and the Use of Simulated Decision-Makers in Information Evaluation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T21:53:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7414573.pdf: 5180618 bytes, checksum: 861d17c04d66dab26c9a5fa9cb538e1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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A Framework for Identifying Key Decision Makers for Institutional Owner Capital Projects
The Federal Government spends $40 billion dollars a year maintaining its facility portfolio. As a result of the size of investment and current economic conditions, the government and other institutional owners are facing increased pressure to optimize their investment in their portfolios. Green …
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PERSPECTIVES ON WATER MANAGEMENT FROM LOCAL WATER DECISION MAKERS IN A COASTAL REGION
… and in utilities, this population of local water decision makers is under-investigated (Cockerill, 2014). This study employed a mixed methods approach of key informant interviews and a survey sent to a broader, representative population of these individuals to gather critical details to elucidate …
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Collective belief models for representing consensus and divergence in communities of Bayesian decision-makers
… game theoretic analysis in large populations of decision-makers. Each individual's beliefs and preferences are represented by a Bayesian network. Based on the result of inference on the networks, a population is separated into collectives whose members agree on the relatively likelihood or …
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A relevant methodology for aiding highway safety decision makers in resolving highway safety problems
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. School of Criminal Justice, 1971
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A study of the pattern of learning style characteristics for adult dependent decision-makers
… style characteristics for adult "Dependent" decision-makers. Then, use those identified characteristics and their associated instructional/learning strategies to suggest instructional interventions for "Dependent“ decision-makers. One hundred and forty-four adult Community College students …
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The measured effects of enthusiasm and caution in a selected sample of educational decision makers
… which could measure enthusiasm and caution in decision makers. A second purpose was to determine if instrument results could identify a decision maker's style as either enthusiastic or cautious.There were 688 instruments mailed to Superintendents of Indiana Public Schools. Superintendents …
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Towards a financial literacy model as a coordinating interface between financial information and decision makers
… comprehensibility of financial information to decision makers in organisations. The way individuals and institutions use the concept of financial literacy suggests that different people attach different meanings to this construct. In order to establish a conceptual model for financial literacy, …
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The investigation of methods to assist decision-makers regarding bridge maintenance, rehabilitation, and restoration activities
… the deterioration pattern of bridges can assist decision makers in determining when and whether to ignore, refurbish/rehabilitate, or replace a bridge. This dissertation formulates and applies two models, one deterministic and the other probabilistic, capable of predicting future condition …
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Developing heritage : activist decision-makers and reproduced narratives in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria
… of the plan and regulations. Instead, local decision-makers are active, collaborative agents who dynamically reshape and reinvent the guidelines for implementation. All decisions regarding the regulation of new uses, and especially those not directly traceable to immediate economic interests, …
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Understanding the Practice of Girl Marriage in Northern Nigeria from the Perspectives of Key Decision-Makers
… of the people involved in girl marriage decisions are however relevant for these local strategies, very few studies have focused on these decision makers (parents and community leaders) within a cultural context.<br/><br/>This gap in the research is addressed in the current study, which …
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