Browsing by Subject "decision making"
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(2018-12-07)Agricultural producers across a diverse set of enterprises face significant risk each year when planting begins, livestock are purchased, or a new investment is made in machinery or facilities. Participants in other ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 2006)The precedent paper, published in ICEBO 2005 presented the approach and methodology for information flow management in the commissioning of low energy buildings. Within this methodology, commissioning and decision making ...
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(ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2005)
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(2014-07-30)Tourism is often a group-based activity, but tourism decision-making research has primarily focused on individual decision making and who makes decisions in families. However, there are numerous situations in which individuals ...
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(2017-08-03)My dissertation examines an underexplored actor on the world stage: the personalist dictator. Personalist dictators are leaders that have consolidated all domestic power for themselves. Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Saddam ...
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(2015-12-10)Higher education is faced with a challenge to its traditional funding structure. As a result, academic programs must seek alternative sources of support. Chief among these sources is philanthropy in the form of major gifts. ...
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(Frontiers Media SA, 2014-06-23)In two experiments we examined the role of emotion, specifically worry, anxiety, and mood, on prospection during decision-making. Worry is a particularly relevant emotion to study in the context of prospection because high ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1958)
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1951)
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(2011-10-21)The purpose of this study is to determine how nonroutine acts performed by iii trained emergency workers developed into routine emergency acts and skills. I will be specifically looking for concepts that are common throughout ...
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Two main components for effective cognitive control are top-down and bottom-up processing. Top-down processing is described as the ability to use previously known information to create, seek out and achieve a goal. Bottom-up ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1968)
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1968)
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Prospect theory is a descriptive model of individual decision-making under risk (Kahneman and Tversky 1979). The central tenet of prospect theory posits that the risk orientation of decision-makers is affected by the gains ...
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(2010-07-14)Scholars have long been interested in how presidents make decisions in foreign policy. Often, the theories about foreign policy decision making focus on the choice to use or not use one particular foreign policy tool. Many ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1985)
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(2017-05-02)Conventional methods for analyzing the influences of water planning decisions frequently miss the dynamic interconnections between water, energy, and food (WEF) resources. This study presents a platform to analyze the ...
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(2020-04-29)Respect for patient autonomy is a fundamental principle of biomedical ethics. However, it holds relatively little weight in pediatric medicine, in which parents act as proxy decision-makers for their children. Challenges ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-05-10)Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. Here, ...
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(2018-11-26)Social resilience after disasters is characterized by two key dimensions, reducing impacts and enhancing recovery. In that context, reducing the number of household that are either forced or choose to relocate due to damage ...