modeling decision making systems in addiction

... remaining market share in micro financing After reviewing the literature on the positive impact of micro financing in developing countries like Bangladesh, Zambia and Bolivia, it can be inferred ... have a key influence in shaping their interests, attitude and perceptions towards micro financing models The literature review explores the success of micro financing models in the developing countries ... unstructured institutions The borrowers are keen to obtain fund in any way to establish their businesses without having in depth information about the compounding rate of interest, schedule of charges, installment...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... of each individual cow, indicating that decisions can differ both within and between herds At the farm level, the veterinarians seemed to integrate farm-related information into the decision ... definitions of different scoring values, such as excluding certain scores (see examples in table 1) They find the definitions incorrect If the veterinarian strictly follows his/ her own scoring ... her with the same vaginal findings" D, C, L, & H using a variable threshold for treatment and makes individual decision on individual cows based on multiple clinical criteria (incl metritis score)...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... Motivation 1.2 Systems thinking 1.3 Overview of what follows 1 Part Systems and systems thinking: Introduction Systems thinking 2.1 Increased complexity of today’s decision making 2.2 Efficiency ... insights for informed decision making The vast majority of that decision making occurs within organizations or, in other words, within systems Therefore MS/OR can be viewed as a way of thinking ... Management science Decision making through systems thinking This page intentionally left blank Management science Decision making through systems thinking Hans G Daellenbach Donald...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2013, 23:53

... account, etc In U Cebeci / Expert Systems with Applications 36 (2009) 8900–8909 many of such decision- making settings the theory of fuzzy decisionmaking can be of use Fuzzy group decision- making can ... departments/processes, – to determine and coordinate necessary trainings such as on-job training, seminars, – to publish and revise the project plan, – interdepartmental communication When comparing to other sectors, ... Defined? Define the Strategies with Top Management No Yes Are Key Performance Indicators Defined? No Define the Key Performance Indicators Yes Are Human Resources Qualified for Information Systems? ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2013, 11:41

... plaque up to 2.5 mm subgingivally Subgingival scaling is increasingly less effective in areas probing greater than mm Plaque left behind subgingivally following root planing begins to grow and repopulate ... is insufficient for providing useful information for comprehensive therapy The components of a thorough clinical examination, including periodontal probing depths, hard and soft tissue examination, ... measures These include furcation involvements and subgingival restorative margins A clinically maintainable condition will evolve as a result of the previous four criteria having been met In short,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 21:20

... to decision making in all four outcomes; younger women are less likely to participate in decision making than older women Women working for cash are more likely to participate in decision making ... by a single measure In Nepal, Bangladesh and India, as women get older they gain autonomy in household decision making [25] A newly married daughter-inlaw has less decision making power in the ... (20.1%-77.0%) Women in paid employment also have a higher say in decision making Women with more living children (5+) have greater participation in decision making for each outcome variable Making major...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... Overestimating Your Value in Negotiation Self-Serving Biases in Negotiation Anchoring in Negotiations Conclusions 172 174 176 178 Chapter 11 Improving Decision Making 179 Strategy 1: Use Decision- Analysis ... become wiser investors 12  Chapter 1: Introduction to Managerial Decision Making Chapter 9: Making rational decisions in negotiation This chapter outlines a framework to help the reader think about ... Chapter Introduction to Managerial Decision Making The Anatomy of Decisions System and System Thinking The Bounds of Human Rationality Introduction to Judgmental Heuristics An Outline of Things...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... example, 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 ... Theory-driven, using theory of planned behaviour (TPB) as an overarching framework linking different disciplinary perspectives; Taking individual-level decisions and behaviour as paramount; Linking individual ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... for guiding decision making One approach intended to make test scores more informative for decision making is value-added modeling (VAM), which controls for prior achievement in estimating the ... The remainder of this paper is divided into four sections Section one describes what is meant by datadriven decision making, including its origins, a theoretical framework for thinking about ... proclaim, “We are completely 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:24

... believe that the decision routine observed in the interactions instantiates a more general schema for decision- making that may be routinized in various ways In the abstract schema, each decision has ... strategies that would be untenable in face-to-face interaction Data Collection The initial corpus of 32 interactions involving simple decision- making tasks was obtained under conditions which were ... larger corpus in which students engage in a more complex decision- making task These measures provide evidence for the claim that participants in computer-mediated decision- making interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... Voluntary initiatives and good practice implemented by governments and businesses 1.1 Recruiting, training, mentoring and networking programmes In the United Kingdom, the headhunting industry ... 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, although ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... artificial  intelligence  are  also  employed  in the  design  of  decision support  systems.   Intelligent  agents  use  AI  to  assist  in 114  decision making,   especially  in real‐time  decision,  such as determining how to supply a  ... size and complexity of many of these systems make  DSSs  essential  for  effective  decision making.  DSS in supply chain management are  often  called  Advanced  Planning  and  Scheduling  systems.   These  systems typically  ... cover  the  following  areas:  Demand  planning,  supply  planning,  manufacturing  planning  and scheduling.   Typically,  decision support systems use  the  quantifiable  information  available ...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... USER INTERFACE PROGRAMS USER INTERFACE ENGINE PROGRAM Knowledge Base EXPERT ADVICE KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING EXPERT Expert System Development Financial Decision Making ... their expert knowledge-bases into which data and logical reasoning are inputted Expert Systems technology is normally introduced to bring consistency to the decision- making process, as well as to ... approval, loan application processing, money transfer processing, loan monitoring, teller training, financial planning services, and intelligent message understanding These applications usually...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:12

... within the receiving and shipping area Instrumental Issue (1 ):= If space is available, separate receiving and shipping and design the material handling systems in the plant in a U-shape layout Instrumental ... mentioned in the Introduction, initial results on lean level of buffering in serial lines with Rayleigh and Erlang machines have been reported in (Enginarlar et al., 2002) Lean buffering in serial ... capture this aspect of the FDP problem An interesting development in Engineering education is the Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating real-world systems and products (CDIO) collaborative...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:26

... enquiry into the workings of some prominent features of the genre, in particular inherited guilt, curses, Erinyes, and decision making Not all tragedies involve a curse, and curses are not crucial in ... examines some instances in this contemporary author of supernatural causation, moral inheritance within the family, and decision making Herodotus, it will be argued, exhibits fruitful points ... rather to examine some problematic features that are quite crucial in some surviving plays, and prominent in a large number of others In my examination of how guilt, curses, Erinyes, and decisions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:19

... of trustworthy peers In this paper, we consider how to improve the trustworthiness of a group by including trustworthy peers in the group If the group we call a decision making committee can be ... In the scientific computation, huge number of peers are required to be involved in the computation process and offer their computation power In another case like schedule making or decision making ... and are included in the group G At this point, the initiator peer p0 checks for the number of peers in the group G If more number of peers are needed to be included in the group G, the initiator...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... Wireless Communications and Networking During the measurements, the airship was flying over a building in various directions in order to obtain results statistically independent on the azimuth angle ... loss into the ground floor of an office building (i) an office building, (ii) an office building with storeys higher than surrounding buildings, (iii) a brick building, (iv) a prefab residential building ... elevation angle in office building at 2.0 GHz buildings is depicted in Figure The corresponding empirical parameters for model (1) are summarized in Table This dependence can easily be used in system...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... uncertain variables Strategic Variables on Decision Making It is required to define the strategic variables for modeling any decision- making tool and specify the data used for 5.1 Intelligent Decision- Making ... variables so that it is inevitable to be supported by computerized tool on the decision- making process Supporting decision- making requires understanding of both the processes involved and the provision ... policy like (feed -in tariff FIT) for the decision- making of utilities on the investment planning and operation scheduling of renewable energy sources An example process of decisionmaking on renewable...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Communications and Networking formulas are inferred for the path loss, slow- and fastfading, and interference modeling A comparison with a physical-optics-based ray-tracing model is also successfully ... traditionally consist of electromagnetic theory combined with engineering expertise that allows making reasonable assumptions about the propagation mechanisms involved Provided that the correct propagation ... theoretical models are capable of making very accurate predictions in a deterministic manner The output being specific to particular locations rather than being an average value, the model can...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20