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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"rational decision making"”.
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Supporting rational decision-making in civil engineering
… continued safe and economical operation, where decisions such as whether or not to suspend operations are based on uncertain knowledge concerning the state of the structure. Modern development in technology has made available several accurate monitoring devices providing Structural Health …
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Investment in training: a matter for rational decision making?
… are faced with exogenous forces that make decision making prone to irrational choices. This study attempts to fill the gap in research on post entry screening by examining a series of longitudinal data. The approach has been through the use of interviews with trainees from selected …
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Circles of Influence: Rational decision-making, strategic positioning, and the formation of charter school clusters in New Jersey
… and often segregated landscapes. Drawing on rational choice theory and previous research into the profit maximizing behavior of firms, I argued that charter schools have strong incentives to locate in areas that allow them to effectively balance consumer demand with the potential negative …
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Three papers on belief updating and its applications
… has long been established in the literature of decision science. However, psychology and experiments suggest that while rational decision making is ideal, it is rarely achievable for ordinary people. Therefore, it is important to explore the foundations and consequences of rational decision …
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Decision-making in higher education and intercollegiate athletics: case study on the Big Ten Conference realignment
This study focuses on the decision-making institutional leaders use during the process of conference realignment at the Division I level. Intercollegiate athletics has existed within higher education for well over a century. Conflicting values and objectives have persisted between intercollegiate …
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Self-Regulation and Adolescent Decision-Making
… for a more specific approach to describing decision-making and consideration of information contexts risks occur in. The current study utilizes a task that allows for a behavioral distinction between risk-taking and rational decision-making (i.e., expected value sensitivity). 150 early …
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Making decisions in mental healthcare : a phenomenological study
People who are involved within the decision-making processes of mental healthcare understand and respond to distress in differing ways with important consequences for clinical practice. Within different knowledge systems, rational decision-making is thought to be impeded by biological, …
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Decision-making in the micro-business
… our knowledge of such businesses by focusing on decision-making in the micro-business. The research involved 55 semi-structured interviews with the owner-managers of micro-businesses in three contrasting sectors: accounting, building and printing. The study found that micro-businesses play an …
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What imagination teaches
… It is argued that imagination can aid in rational decision-making, even in cases which may involve substantial transformation of the agent. Finally, a case is made that we can improve our capacity to gain knowledge of the mental states of others by careful application of imagination.
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The Endowment Effect: A Self-Enhancement Perspective
… various domains because of its implications for rational decision-making. The endowment effect has been explained as a manifestation of loss aversion from the reference point of ownership.</p> <p>Though prior research has examined various cognitive and affective processes underlying the endowment …
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Investigating How Individual Differences in Organisations are Associated with Employee Performance, Job Satisfaction and Climate for Innovation: A Quantitative Study in Jordan’s Middle Eastern Context
… Team Roles, Conflict Management Styles, and Decision Making Styles. Some personality characteristics and styles have been identified as ‘healthy’ and productive, whilst others are considered ‘unhealthy’ and dysfunctional. Measuring individual differences in the workplace is seen as highly …
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Investigating how individual differences in organisations are associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation : a quantitative study in Jordan's Middle Eastern context
… Team Roles, Conflict Management Styles, and Decision Making Styles. Some personality characteristics and styles have been identified as ‘healthy’ and productive, whilst others are considered ‘unhealthy’ and dysfunctional. Measuring individual differences in the workplace is seen as highly …
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Contexts of Exchange and the Pricing of Art
… often take more than one approach to pricing decisions, either at different stages of their career or coterminously. I examine the diversity of pricing decisions for visual art by investigating the exchange contexts within which art is sold. Exchange contexts are examined both in terms of the …
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
… habit of saving than about teaching economically rational decision-making. These findings indicate that asset-building is consistent with a neoliberal outlook that focuses on disciplining the poor to be market compliant irrespective of whether this compliance helps overcome or reinforce living in …
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
… habit of saving than about teaching economically rational decision-making. These findings indicate that asset-building is consistent with a neoliberal outlook that focuses on disciplining the poor to be market compliant irrespective of whether this compliance helps overcome or reinforce living in …
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Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives
… epidemiological and economic models to inform rational decision-making. First, this thesis estimates the premature deaths as 43,000-73,000 valued at 10-23 billion USD in India attributable to exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from crop residue burning, and finds Punjab, …
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THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES ON THE IOWA GAMBLING TASK AND REAL-WORLD DECISION MAKING
… Task (IGT) was created to assess real world decision making deficits in patients with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and has become a clinical diagnostic measure of real world decision-making for vulnerable populations (i.e., substance abusers, gambling addicts, depressives). To …
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The Context-Sensitivity of Rationality and Knowledge
… beliefs, desires, and preferences that count as rational may change from one deliberative context to another. The argument rests on the premise that rational deliberation requires one to identify all the possibilities that are relevant to a decision problem. How does a decision maker accomplish …
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Tax Assessment in the Age of Information Technology - The Impact of Information Technology on the Decision-Making Process and Its Consequences for Public Administration
… information technology applications for routine decision-making in public administration has increased rapidly in the 1990's. Computer programs actually make the decisions in routine cases instead of only providing support for decision-making. The research problem in the study is, whether the …
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A Planner's Dilemma: Hostile Public Opinion and Land Use Planning in Rural Southwest Missouri
… In so doing, the planning process becomes more rational than the older, static forms of traditional planning. This thesis questions whether rational decision making in planning is possible to acheive. Furthermore, public opinion is explored, and the use of it to rationalize or aid in the …
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