agent based modelling of social emotional decision making in emergency situations

... Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent- Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes This page intentionally left blank DYNAMICS IN HUMAN AND PRIMATE SOCIETIES Agent- Based Modeling of Social ... gathering information (the input), the agent processes it by linking the input to already stored information (the agents' internal representation of the world), and performs acts (the output) in ... Jim Doran points out in chapter 5, agentbased approaches have the ability, in principle, to take into account rules, 14 Putting Social Sciences Together Again norms, differential learning contexts,...

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... decision making, including its origins, a theoretical framework for thinking about its implementation in education, and a brief overview of existing literature Section two draws on crosscutting ... data-driven.” In recent years, the education community has witnessed increased interest in data-driven decision making (DDDM)— making it a mantra of educators from the central office, to the ... useful for decision making than state test results Interim progress tests are one type of local assessment growing in popularity, particularly in the areas of mathematics and reading Administered...

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... Knowledge Based Urban Development (KBUD) using agent based modelling RENGARAJAN SATYANARAIN (B.TECH, INDIA) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN URBAN PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF ... mixed-use planning, KnowledgeBased Urban Development (KBUD), Agent- Based Modelling (ABM) LIST OF TABLES TABLE 1.1 AN ILLUSTRATION OF ACTORS PARTICIPATING IN A KBUD [‘URBAN INNOVATIVE ENGINE’] ... cluster of R&D activities, high-tech manufacturing of knowledge-intensive industrial and business sectors linked by mixed-use environment including housing, business, education and leisure within...

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... Association of arriba-lib with decision making and exploration of additional factors In 70% of the responding patients, we found a perfect match between preferred and perceived decision making Fifty-seven ... MP, Singer E, Ubel PA, Ziniel S, Fowler FJ Jr, Levin CA, Fagerlin A: Deficits and variations in patients’ experience with making common medical decisions: the DECISIONS survey Med Decis Making ... [Shared decision making: an overview of international research literature] Soz Praventivmed 2003, 48(1):11-23 Kaplan RM, Frosch DL: Decision making in medicine and health care Annu Rev Clin Psychol...

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... a list of 51 key articles in the field of shared decisionmaking (including a list of 17 studies that dealt with barriers and/or facilitators to implementing shared decisionmaking in clinical ... be involved in the decision- making process[14] In a recently published review on optimal matches of patient preferences for information, decision making, and interpersonal behaviour[15], findings ... implementation of shared decision- making in clinical practice Implementation Science 2006, 1:16 decision making[ 63] Therefore, in order to not increase inequity in health (patients who are not invited...

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... were [29,30] Furthermore, in Chinese kindergarten classrooms the incidences of sharing and comforting were higher than in American kindergarten classrooms [31] since Chinese societies generally ... groups in the classroom differ in the degree of social- emotional competence at the beginning of the kindergarten year The Latin-American children will more likely show more moral reasoning, more ... beginnings of stories like short, half-structured conflict situations The interviewer starts by telling and playing the beginning of one story with puppets including a conflict Then, the child is being...

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... Despite being a topic of interest in many disciplines, the study of decision making has always been challenging Some of the challenges of investigating decision making in dynamic sports situations ... introduction of decision making as the main theory of focus in this research proposal It includes the definition of decision making, the different types of theories and research in decision making, ... decision making behaviour and its applications in various areas The literature review includes topics such as: o Definition of decision making o Types of research in decision making o Decision making...

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... give rich phenomena including social learning and herding Hence in the past decades, there has been a growing trend of simulating the financial market based on the interactions of agents with different ... particles, agents interact with each other in market with certain behaviors traits If we model market based on interacting agents, the models are named agent- based models In this work, agent behaviors ... herd within the people he/she knows or interact with The interaction structure is defined in terms of network structure of agents, with each individual agent being a node, and each pair of interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:09

... NGO decision- makers use in decision- making? ’, ‘who participates in decision- making? ’, and ‘what are the specific internal and external factors that influence NGOs in their decision- making? ’ Decision- making ... 50 Decision- making and attributes of NGOs 51 Influences on decision- making within Indian NGOs 53 Research on AWARE’s decision- making 57 Evaluation of NGO decision- making ... decision- making, components of project decisions, criteria of decisionmaking, performance of projects and finally the internal and external factors that influence projects’ decisions Decisions...

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... risk of influential interaction between the interviewer and the interviewed during the interviews that could influence the statements of the interviewed e.g., the use of leading questions In the ... veterinarians who primarily followed their own definitions of different scoring values, such as excluding certain scores (see examples in table 1) They find the definitions incorrect If the veterinarian ... the veterinary paradigm shifted in the minds of veterinarians in practice? Herd health programmes often aim at close monitoring of disease incidence to allow timely diagnosis, subsequent intervention...

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... citizens, offering them an increasing number and range of opportunities for accessing information, gaining and exchanging knowledge and realising personal learning goals The core indicators for Internet ... to support learning in an informal way, formal Education and Training is lagging behind in reaping the benefits of ICT to increase and improve learning opportunities The Rise of Social Media Studies ... seeking health-related information (ranging from 10% in Bulgaria to 56% in Finland); and 31% use the Internet for reading online newspapers and magazines (ranging from 18% in Poland to 64% in...

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... the Working Families’ Tax Credit (WFTC), introduced in the United Kingdom in 1999, in combination with the increase in Income Support for unemployed families, led to an increase in births of around ... to be a win-win strategy, presumably increasing the happiness of the prospective parents and at the same time helping to increase fertility rates in a country without interfering with individual ... BEHAVIOUR Work in WP4 investigated different aspects of the relation between childbearing intention and behaviour, including an exploration of the factors influencing the realisation of intentions,...

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... 3rd quarter of 2011 17 The key indicator of gender representation on corporate boards in the EU shows that the proportion of women involved in top-level business decision- making remains very low, ... and men”31, BUSINESSEUROPE fully supports the objective of increasing the proportion of women in decision- making positions They stress the importance of raising awareness and sharing best practices ... of 40 % representation of each sex in nominating or appointing government representatives in public enterprises and other entities of public law, including management and supervisory boards of...

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... so central in the former is strikingly peripheral in the latter For present purposes, it is suYcient to bear in mind Herodotus picture of the intertwining of fate and inherited guilt, of necessity ... at length in Chapter the implications of the doctrine of inherited 13 More is said of diVering kinds of necessity and diVerent perceptions of what is necessary below, in Ch 10 Preliminary Studies ... historical processes by referring them to the causal eYcacy of the divine?2 In any case, the workings of inherited guilt and fate in Herodotus are illuminating for the student of tragedy As we shall...

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... the Latin plain to the Alban mountain and the long line of hills—the last spurs of the Apennines— enclosing the plain to the north, can fail to realise that Rome was originally an outpost of the ... political influence; and power in the provinces; the bankers and money-lenders; origin of the Roman banker; nature of his business; risks of the money-lender; general indebtedness of society; ... followed by business; morning in the Forum; lunch (prandium); siesta; the bath; dinner: its hour becomes later; dinner-parties: the triclinium; drinking after dinner; Cicero's indifference to...

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... Invitation to Participate in Decision- making The absence of invitation to participate in decision- making is clear since the Land is Life analysis85 revealed an almost total lack of information given ... part of decision- making processes The principle is now legitimately capable of generating an international norm, and is found in declarations, resolutions and guidelines enacted in different international ... orientation that will inevitably bring about social and economic implications Equity and fairness is essential during decision- making processes, and also in the outcomes of decision- making. 17 Currently,...

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... involves skill in clinical decision- making The first goal of this chapter is to provide an introduction to the study of clinical reasoning Equally bewildering to the student ... chapter is to provide a brief overview of some of the tools of evidence -based medicine Clinical Decision- Making Clinical Reasoning The most important clinical actions are not procedures or prescriptions ... aspects of clinical medicine flow In the modern era of large randomized trials and evidence -based medicine, it is easy to overlook the importance of this elusive mental activity and focus instead...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... problems, of the sort encountered daily in clinical medicine, with great efficiency Clinicians rely on three basic types of heuristics When assessing a particular patient, clinicians often weigh ... chief complaint who has a 100-pack-year smoking history, a productive morning cough, and episodes of blood-streaked sputum may generate the principal diagnostic hypothesis of carcinoma of the lung ... that this patient's clinical features match those of the class of patients with the leading diagnostic hypotheses being considered In other words, the clinician is searching for the diagnosis...

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... of the examiner to the exclusion of all other inputs until answered, allowing the examiner to move on to the next specific question Negative findings are often as important as positive ones in ... One of the factors that make teaching diagnostic reasoning difficult is that expert clinicians not follow a fixed pattern in patient examinations From the outset, they are generating, refining, ... clues that the initial diagnosis may be wrong Patients often provide information that "does not fit" with any of the leading diagnostic hypotheses being considered Distinguishing real clues from...

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... drugs (including dosages and side effects), and are less likely to overreact to foreseeable problems in therapy such as a rise in creatinine levels or symptomatic hypotension Other intriguing research ... the health of the cities' inhabitants The physicians in New Haven were not aware of using fewer hospital beds for their patients, nor were the Boston physicians aware of using less stringent criteria ... examination has a very low likelihood of structural intracranial pathology Performance of a head CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in this situation would constitute defensive medicine...

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