Browsing by Subject "decision-making"
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(2021-12-07)The decision-making process is part of disaster management in communities. It is relevant to define how to allocate resources for the four phases of the events: mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. The design, ...
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(2011-08-08)Excessive risk-taking is a characteristic of several psychopathological disorders. In order to alleviate maladaptive risky behavior, a thorough understanding of the neurobiological and pharmacological substrates of risky ...
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(2014-10-16)This study sought to highlight a specific area of California-agriculturalist behavior—decision-making—that may lend additional insight into how to begin bridging the communication gap between farmers and consumers. ...
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The aim of this study was to examine the effects that personality and decision-making behavior have on charitableness. We assessed the personalities of our participants by running a series of personality tests based on ...
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(2009-05-15)Concurrent construction, in which multiple construction activities are carried out concurrently or overlapping, is a method developed to reduce time-to-market and increase the value of the project to the owner or user. ...
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(2009-05-15)This study proposes an alternative travel decision making model and situates its arguments in the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) theoretical construct. The MOA model suggests that motivation, opportunity, and ability ...
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An Environmental Perspective to Decision-making for the Control of Johne's Disease on Beef Ranches (2010-10-12)Biosecurity practices for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Mptb), the etiologic agent for Johne's disease (JD), are predicated on the fact that fecal-oral is the major route of infection and that Mptb is present ...
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(2021-01-06)The overconfidence effect is a pervasive bias that has been shown to obstruct decisional quality and lead to harmful organizational outcomes. This widespread phenomenon has been observed across an expansive array of ...
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(2018-01-18)The human brain is responsible for constructing how we perceive, think, and act in the world around us. The organization of these functions is intricately distributed throughout the brain. Here, I discuss how functional ...
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(2020-07-29)As ecosystems around the world experience unprecedented anthropogenic impacts, the need for a more nuanced understanding of the human decision-making process and how it shapes social-ecological systems has become clear. ...
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(2014-11-26)Many real applications require decision-making under uncertainty. These decisions occur at discrete points in time, influence future decisions, and have uncertainties that evolve over time. Mean-risk stochastic integer ...
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(2017-06-19)Externalizing proneness, or impulse control and substance abuse problems, has been broadly associated with dysregulation in reward sensitivity. The goal of this investigation was to systematically determine the effects ...
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(2015-01)Decision making for water resources is needed for land-use change due to urbanisation, which impacts hydrological variables such as mean annual runoff (MAR) of catchments. Urbanisation introduces some degree of uncertainty ...
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(2009-05-15)One psychosocial variable, human mate selection, has been studied extensively within the field of evolutionary psychology. A question of interest is how sexual/reproductive decision-making (i.e., dating, marrying, and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation is an analysis of how presidents make foreign policy decisions. Rather than explaining foreign policy decisions by focusing on individuals or institutions, I stress the role of political pressures and ...
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(2013-02-04)Storytelling is a crucial aspect of the human condition, and it has been used since the beginning of civilization in order to communicate and express ideas. This study examines the relationship between storytelling and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Risk based audit (RBA) approaches represent a major trend in current audit methodology. The approach is based on risk analysis used to identify business strategy risk. The RBA has created a new set of research issues that ...
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(2018-08-02)Momentum from a single tourism event can produce a pattern of mass perception. Availability Cascades are processes of collective belief formation where natural social learning causes individuals to incorrectly infer the ...
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(2017-12-01)Cellular decision making is a ubiquitous process among all life forms, and a key step that organisms take to integrate the environmental signals to choose an optimal response to improve their overall fitness. The genetic ...
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(2022-04-19)From 1970 to 2019, approximately 71% of all terrorist attacks were classified as either a bombing or an armed assault. This pattern suggests that other tactical choices are made with less frequency and may need specific ...