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Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are ...
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila +2 more
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Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2021 We systematically study the completion of choice problems in the Weihrauch lattice. Choice problems play a pivotal role in Weihrauch complexity. For one, they can be used as landmarks that characterize important equivalences classes in the Weihrauch lattice.
Vasco Brattka, Guido Gherardi
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Acta Oncologica, 2020 We need to make choices on a daily basis in our practice of medical oncology. In regular times, these choices are evidence-based and backed by science. However, during emergency situations like the current COVID pandemic, these choices are not just tougher to make, but come with the added burden of inadequate evidence to base them on.
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021 Background The ISPOR Special Task Force (STF) on US Value Assessment Frameworks was agnostic about exactly how to implement the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) as a key element in an overall cost-effectiveness evaluation.
Bernarda Zamora +3 more
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What helps volunteers to continue with their work?
South African Family Practice, 2004 Aim: The aim of the study was to understand what volunteers perceived to be the factors helping them to continue working as volunteers, thereby assisting project leaders to improve the recruitment procedures, as well as quality of service, in the future.
G. Marincowitz, C. Jackson, S. Fehrsen
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Who are good home-based care volunteers?
South African Family Practice, 2004 Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of volunteers who remained active in the home-based care project located in Tzaneen (Limpopo Province) and thereby assist the project leaders to improve the recruitment and quality of the ...
G. Marincowitz, C. Jackson, G.S. Fehrsen
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Pharmacoepidemiology, 2023 Though it is well documented that antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of falls in older adults at the drug class level, the comparative risk between individual antidepressants for fall injury in older adults with depression is unknown ...
Ashley Tabah +3 more
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European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2021 Latent class models have long been a tool for capturing heterogeneity across decisionmakers in the sensitivities to individual attributes. More recently, there has been increased interest in using these models to capture heterogeneity in actual ...
Thomas O Hancock, Stephane Hess
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On choice, preference, and preference for choice. [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst Today, 2006 In this paper, we examine several common everyday meanings of choice, propose behavioral definitions of choice, choosing, and preference, and recommend ways for behavioral researchers to talk consistently about these concepts. We also examine the kinds of performance in the contexts of various procedures that might be appropriately described as a ...
Toby L, Martin +3 more
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Фармакоэкономика, 2017 The recently introduced novel drug combinations for the treatment of COPD are based on long-acting beta-agonists (vilantererol / umeclidinum bromide) and long-acting anticholinergics (olodaterol / tiotropium bromide).
E. G. Kosolapov +5 more
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