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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"decision-making model"”.
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Strategic decision making model for shared services
… In this research I developed a shared services decision model which provides a formal approach to the evaluation of shared services opportunities of an organisation. The drive to be able to respond to the challenges of the chaotically changing business environment has forced organisations to …
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Decision making model of behaviour in office building fire evacuations
The purpose of the research was to develop a model of decision making in office building fire evacuations. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire and short film. The questionnaire contained separate fire scenarios that corresponded to the order of cue presentation in the film. For each fire …
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Developing a fengshui-based strategic decision-making model for Malaysia's property industry
… to get a sense of confidence to make well-guided decisions is unheard-of. To compound the problem, conscious and subconscious belief-based factors like Fengshui is pervasive in Malaysia's property industry. Although this phenomenon significantly impacts strategic decision (SD) making in the …
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Risk-Based Decision Making Model for the Selection of Flood Mitigation Alternatives
… select from multiple mitigation alternatives, a Decision-Making Models (DMM) is proposed. The first model uses the results from the risk assessment and the mitigation alternatives are evaluated using a Monte Carlo Simulation and probabilistic optimization. The second DMM model incorporates …
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Replication and Extension of an Evaluation of a Functional Analysis Decision-Making Model
… (2021) created, validated, and evaluated an FA decision-making model (DMM) for selecting an initial FA variation with graduate students. The majority of students needed additional training (i.e., CBT, rehearsal and feedback). The purposes of the current study were to replicate and extend Benson. …
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A cloud computing decision making model for small and medium enterprises in South Africa.
… Due to the progress in cloud computing, decision makers are cautious and not entirely open to cloud computing. The Technological, Organizational and Environmental (TOE) framework has been selected as a theory for this study. This study reviews existing decision support methods, …
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An Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision Making Model Under Safety, Workload, and Equity Considerations
… large-scale, airspace planning and collaborative decision-making model (APCDM), that is part of an $11.5B, 10-year, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored effort to increase U.S. National Airspace (NAS) capacity by 30 percent. Given a set of flights that must be scheduled during some …
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A Cost Analysis Decision-Making Model for School Administrators to Compare Costs of Handicapped Programs
… of cost and the type of service delivery model (resource versus self contained), and provided cost indices for various handicapping categories. The criticism of the research was the lack of control in gathering valid cost data, the discrepancies in cost data between programs within a …
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A strategic decision making model on global capacity management for the manufacturing industry under market uncertainty
… strategic planning. Capacity-related investment decisions are often irreversible or prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to change once they are in place. Furthermore, such companies operate in uncertain business environments, which can significantly influence the optimal decisions and the …
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Evaluation of Rope Shovel Operators in Surface Coal Mining Using a Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Model
… rope shovel operators using the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) model. Data used in this research were collected from an operating surface coal mine in the southern United States. The MADM model used in this research consists of attributes, their weights of importance, and alternatives. …
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Shaping the Next Generation Air Transportation System with an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision Making Model
… work is part of this effort and mainly concerns modeling and algorithmic enhancements to the Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model (APCDM). First, we augment the APCDM to study an \emph{Airspace Flow Program} (AFP) in the context of weather-related disruptions. The proposed …
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Slot-Exchange Mechanisms and Weather-Based Rerouting within an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model
We develop and evaluate two significant modeling concepts within the context of a large-scale Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model (APCDM) and, thereby, enhance its current functionality in support of both strategic and tactical level flight assessments. The first major concept …
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Generalized Decision-Making Strategies: Teaching Preservice Teachers to Use a Behavior Decision-Making Model to Manage Problem Behaviors
… that mean percentage scores were higher once the model was introduced for all behavior concepts and/or components. The BDMM was effective at teaching preservice teachers to define and validate problem behavior. In addition, appropriate decision-making was demonstrated in contexts where instruction …
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Development of a Decision Making Model for the Assessment of Electricity Demand Side Management in the State of Kuwait
… process. To achieve the research objective, a model was proposed using multi-criteria decision-making techniques to enable the forecasting and comparison of DSM alternatives that are suitable for buildings. The developed model includes environmental, economic, technical and social …
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Does the police service need a values-based decision-making model: if so, what should that model look like?
UK policing lacked a single decision making model which explicitly required decision makers to consider values affecting their judgement. Motivation for the applied aspect of this work was to develop such a model. The wider research concerned the identification of the values underpinning policing. …
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Premature audit sign-offs and the underreporting of chargeable time in public accounting: examination of an ethical decision making model
… lacked a strong theoretical foundation, the decision model used in this study integrates elements of cognitive moral development, moral evaluation, opportunity, and individual moderators. Accountants employed by six public accounting firms completed a questionnaire designed to measure the …
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Human genetic concept attainment in secondary biology students through the use of specifically constructed bioethical case studies and a student decision-making model
… constructed case studies and a student Decision-Making Model facilitated learning genetic concepts of high school biology students. The study also sought to determine if there were a relationship between: (a) teachers' knowledge of genetics (b) student attitude towards the use of the …
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Exploration of Factors that Influence the use of Psychological Testing in the Treatment and Evaluation of Children: Development of a Clinical Decision-Making Model
… assessment as a continual, dynamic, decision-making process. However, what attributes to a psychologist’s clinical judgment when choosing to conduct testing remains unclear. The purpose of this clinical research project was to explore the contributing factors behind clinical child …
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Nuclear Armament/Disarmament as a Topic in Decision-Making Models in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
… issue as a topic for the moral decision-making model in secondary social studies curriculums and to establish guidelines for its inclusion in future lessons. A review of the relevant literature provided the basis for a questionnaire mailed to four hundred, randomly selected …
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Examining the experiences and decision-making processes of underrepresented students at a post-1992 University
… students. This PhD study created a student decision-making model to represent the journeys to and through university. The model encompasses students’ holistic decision making, based upon their previous experiences and interpretation of higher education. This was based upon life-story …
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