short term decision making in finance

... observations regarding Table 1: Table of metritis score definitions and examples of present usage in practice. Scores Clinical signs - vaginal examination Cases Practical scoring Decision making on treatment 0 ... 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 ... followed their own definitions of different scoring values, such as excluding certain scores (see examples in table 1). They find the def- initions incorrect. If the veterinarian strictly follows...

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... FROM INTENTIONS TO BEHAVIOUR Work in WP4 investigated different aspects of the relation between childbearing intention and behaviour, including an exploration of the factors influencing the ... (Fishbein and Ajzen 1975). The TPB has been used in thousands of studies aiming to explain which factors influence the formation of intentions to engage in certain behaviours and which factors in ... childbearing among women of higher childbearing ages, period fertility rates increased in most of the developed countries in 1998-2008, leading to a reversal of the longstanding trend of declining...

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... guiding decision making. One approach intended to make test scores more informative for decision making is value-added mod- eling (VAM), which controls for prior achievement in estimating ... problems in schools receiving the lowest ratings. In several IFL districts, administrators used information gathered in Learning Walks to determine whether teachers and principals were implementing ... e remainder of this paper is divided into four sections. Section one describes what is meant by data- driven decision making, including its origins, a theoret- ical framework for thinking about...

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... Freedom, Decision Making: Eteocles and Others 136 i. Fate 137 ii. Freedom 150 iii. Decision making and states of mind 162 Conclusion 172 References 177 Index Locorum 189 General Index 198 This page intentionally ... fall into, Croesus’ downfall is multiply determined: it is motivated on both human and divine levels, and the divine component of its motivation is not single but multiple. Inherited guilt does indubitably ... both magniWcent and bewildering in its seemingly endless involutions. If anything, the more deeply one is versed in Attic tragedy, the more one stands in danger of taking for granted the complexity...

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... study was to investigate post operative pain management in relation to short term functional mobility in an intervention group receiving concomitant use of an IV narcotic PCA and a continu- ous i ... technique. A loading dose of 20 ml 0.75% ropivacaine and 20 ml 2% ligno- caine was administered in the recovery room prior to commencement of continuous infusion of 0.2% ropiva- caine. Intra venous ... extending an overnight CFNC to four days did not resultinanyincreaseinhealth related quality of life at either seven days or 12 months despite an increase in passive knee flexion during the infusion...

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... study was to investigate post operative pain management in relation to short term functional mobility in an intervention group receiving concomitant use of an IV narcotic PCA and a continu- ous i ... technique. A loading dose of 20 ml 0.75% ropivacaine and 20 ml 2% ligno- caine was administered in the recovery room prior to commencement of continuous infusion of 0.2% ropiva- caine. Intra venous ... post operative pain management in relation to short term functional mobility in an intervention group receiving concomitant use of an IV narcotic PCA and a continuous infusion of local anaesthetic...

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... society, while maintaining public order. A government has the functions of administrating the state, regulating public affairs, decision- making, implementing policies and exercising leadership. ... Figures 6. Decision- Making in Dam Building: Case Study of the Lancang Hydropower Cascade in Yunnan 67 6.1 Introduction 67 6.2 Origins of the World Commission for Dams 67 6.3 Decision- Making Processes ... Technologies Figure 1: Decision- Making Agencies Connected to the Ministry of Energy in Thailand Ministry of Energy State Enterprises Oce of the Prime Minister Ministry of Industry Ministry of Science, Technology...

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... Chapter 003. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 3. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine: Introduction ... problem-solving behavior. Despite the great technological advances of medicine over the last century, uncertainty still plays a pivotal role in all aspects of medical decision- making. We may ... alone. Uncertainty in medical outcomes creates the need for probabilities and other mathematical/statistical tools to help guide decision- making. (These tools are reviewed later in the chapter.)...

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... Chapter 003. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine (Part 2) The following three examples introduce the subject of clinical reasoning:  A 46-year-old man presents to his internist with ... therefore more influential on clinical judgments. The third commonly used cognitive shortcut, the anchoring heuristic, involves estimating a probability by starting from a familiar point (the anchor) ... complaint of hemoptysis. The physician knows that the differential diagnosis of hemoptysis includes over 100 different conditions, including cancer and tuberculosis. The examination begins with...

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... make teaching diagnostic reasoning difficult is that expert clinicians do not follow a fixed pattern in patient examinations. From the outset, they are generating, refining, and discarding diagnostic ... disease is the underlying cause. The absence of a resting Chapter 003. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine (Part 3) Diagnostic Hypothesis Generation Cognitive scientists studying the thought ... 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 establishing...

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... patients. In both cities, physicians unconsciously adopted their practice styles to the available level of hospital beds. Other environmental factors that can influence decision- making include ... are less likely to overreact to foreseeable problems in therapy such as a rise in creatinine levels or symptomatic hypotension. Other intriguing research has shown a wide distribution of acceptance ... lagged behind (a conservative practice style, associated in this case with older physicians). As a group, internists lagged several years behind gastroenterologists. The opinion of influential...

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... Chapter 003. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine (Part 5) Economic Incentives Economic incentives are closely related to the other two categories of practice-modifying factors. Financial ... The purpose of performing a test on a patient is to reduce uncertainty about the patient's diagnosis or prognosis and to aid the clinician in making management decisions. Although diagnostic ... understanding of the patient's problem qualifies as a diagnostic test. Thus, even the history and physical examination can be considered a form of diagnostic test. In clinical medicine, it...

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... favor of the more informative posttest probability. Chapter 003. Decision- Making in Clinical Medicine (Part 6) Calculating sensitivity and specificity requires selection of a decision value ... measure of the information content of a test. Values range from 0.5 (no diagnostic information at all, test is equivalent to flipping a coin) to 1.0 (perfect test). In the testing literature, ... 0.90)]: The term predictive value is often used as a synonym for the posttest probability. Unfortunately, clinicians commonly misinterpret reported predictive values as intrinsic measures...

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