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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"expert advice"”.
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Learning from expert advice framework: Algorithms and applications
… based on recommendations received from a set of experts (users), recommends objects to other users. After a user ``consumes"" an object, his feedback provided to the system is used to assess the performance of experts at that round and adjust the predictions of the recommendation system for the …
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The Role of Expert Advice Formation Individual and Group Decision Making
… decision making when information from multiple experts is available. A total of 767 participants read four scenarios with various forms of expert advice, and then made decisions and gave confidence ratings. As expert advice format became more precise (ambiguous statements to numerical …
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Identification and reduction of pre-analytical errors in clinical chemistry through expert advice
Background: Diagnostics in Clinical chemistry laboratory is a pivotal part of clinical decision-making but is not exempt from ‘human errors’. Scientific innovations such as automation and electronic order test requesting have contributed to substantial improvements in the field of laboratory …
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INTEGRATING A FREELY AVAILABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CUE AND COSTLY EXPERT ADVICE TO MAKE MORE NORMATIVE DECISIONS
… and factors associated with an available expert (the accuracy of the expert and the cost of the expert's advice) on the optimal utilization of the expert. Across all three experiments, participants overutilized the expert (requesting advice when advice was suboptimal) when the expert …
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ONLINE LEARNING, UNIFORM CONVERGENCE, AND A THEORY OF INTERPRETABILITY
… including settings with feedback graphs, expert advice, and delayed feedback. We improve bounds on the minimax regret for undirected, strongly observable feedback graphs and develop nearly optimal algorithms for directed, stochastic feedback graphs without prior information on the …
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Agro Informatics System
… to design a cost-effective system to provide expert advice to farmers and the general public.This project focuses on how information communication technology can be used to better improveagriculture in Zambia.This will be done by implementing an online electronic Agro trading system, a …
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Agro Informatics System
… to design a cost-effective system to provide expert advice to farmers and the general public.This project focuses on how information communication technology can be used to better improveagriculture in Zambia.This will be done by implementing an online electronic Agro trading system, a …
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Mother and infant communication: mothers' experiences and infants' preferences
… young infants. Four themes were identified: expert advice influenced some mother-infant communication; mothers and infants co-regulated some of their communication; maternal communication behaviors were consistent across age and ethnicity; and experience talking to pets influenced some new …
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Feasibility optimality of periodwise static priority policies for a quality of service model in wireless networks and convergence analysis for an online recommendation system
… of an algorithm for the problem of learning with expert advice. At the present time, several web-based recommendation systems use votes from experts or other users to recommend objects to other customers. We apply the `learning from expert advice' framework for this system, and propose a …
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Essays in microeconomics
… to incentive problems in the market for expert advice. Increases in awareness information can be associated with dramatic increases in certainty or uncertainty. The first chapter of this dissertation seeks to unify both phenomena under a single framework of epistemic negligence, or errors …
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A description of learning in a group of well elderly over the age of 75
… visual, and audio material, and readily sought expert advice. From the bases the participants to organized the material, evaluated the information, related the information to their situations, and then used the information to make decisions. All of the participants this process.
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The Modeling Spectrum of Data-Driven Decision Making
… in the framework of multi-armed bandits with expert advice. We extend the setting from finitely many experts to any countably infinite set and provide algorithms that are provably optimal. Second, we explore optimizing perturbations for cell reprogramming in batched experiments. Building upon …
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Integration of transport systems in the UK: fact, fiction or fantasy?
… transport picture. The Commission provides expert advice supported by independent research (CfIT: 2006). There are similar organisations in other countries with major developed transport networks notably in Europe, the USA, Australia and Asia, and these will be researched in the Literature …
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Linking Stream Restoration Success with Watershed, Practice and Design Characteristics
… monitoring reports. Using current literature and expert advice, stream restoration assessment methodologies were developed to assess geomorphic function and design success both in the field and through monitoring reports. Multiple linear regression analysis and related methods were then used to …
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Teleconsultation for diagnosis and care of burn injuries in the Western Cape: Evaluation of healthcare providers intention to use mHealth technology
… could have useful advantages by providing timely expert advice. As part of a larger study on teleconsultation in burn care, a mobile application – the Vula App – was developed and tested in the Western Cape. This study gauges healthcare providers' intention to use this mHealth technology and …
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Implementing a Grand Strategy system—by what method: a case/field study of National Grocers' Peterborough distribution warehouse's Grand Strategy System effort
… the GSS framework in the PDSOF project Documents expert advice on GSS implementation By organizing and presenting a variety of data in a format that is easy to understand and learn from, I have created a reference document that organizations can use in their large scale organizational change …
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Dissecting the 2015 Nepal Earthquake: Rural Response and Way Forward for Nepal
… Based on these findings and the additional expert advice of disaster specialists, recommendations were assimilated with the intention of augmenting current preparedness strategies for the people of Nepal. RESULTS: A major finding of the analysis was that, although detailed response protocols …
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A Jagged Little Pill: Ethics, Behavior, and the AI-Data Nexus
… of historical obstacles to consumer adherence to expert advice, specifically betrayal aversion, in financial contexts. Betrayal aversion, a well-studied phenomenon in economics literature, is defined as the strong dislike for the violation of trust norms implicit in a relationship between two …
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Reducing the Incidence of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers by Enhancing the Role of Unit-Based Skin Champions
… barriers in care delivery, and provided expert advice to peers (Bergquist-Beringer, S., et al., 2009). While a review of literature strongly suggest a multifaceted program, the Skin Champions drove practice changes at the bedside and contributed to positive outcomes. By April 28, 2016, …
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Auditors' Use of Formal Advice from Internal Firm Subject Matter Experts: The Impact of Advice Quality and Advice Awareness on Auditors' Judgments
… issue they often call upon subject matter experts to provide advice. While these experts are the knowledge experts in their area, the quality of the advice depends upon their ability to fully understand and incorporate client specific facts. PCAOB inspection reports suggest that audit teams …
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