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Today's Choices, Tomorrow's Changes [PDF]
Provides an overview of the issues in California's November 2008 elections -- the status quo of education, infrastructure, environment, budget, and governance, and the need for change in each ...
Deborah Reed
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Making Choices: Valletta, Development, Archaeology and Society
The European Archaeological Council's working group on 'Making Choices' conducted a survey of EAC member states about the ways in which they make decisions in archaeological heritage management with particular reference to development-led archaeological ...
Barney Sloane
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Procedural Choices in Regulatory Science [PDF]
This paper compares four approaches to using science in regulatory decision making - one very similar to the Science Court proposal. Professor Jasanoff argues generally that that proposal would be less useful than procedures more sensitive to the ...
Jasanoff, Sheila
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Choice poetics is a formalist framework that seeks to concretely describe the impacts choices have on player experiences within narrative games. Developed in part to support algorithmic generation of narrative choices, the theory includes a detailed ...
Peter Mawhorter +5 more
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Rehabilitation environments: Service users’ perspective
Background Design of rehabilitation environments is usually “expert” driven with little consideration given to the perceptions of service users, especially patients and informal carers.
Maggie Killington +7 more
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COVID-19: underpowered randomised trials, or no randomised trials?
A recently published trial of face mask use to protect against COVID-19 demonstrated a key barrier to carrying out randomised trials in public health: the need for unattainably large sample sizes.
Atle Fretheim
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Rational adversaries? evidence from randomised trials in one day cricket [PDF]
In cricket, the right to make an important decision (bat first or field first) is assigned via a coin toss. These "randomised trials" allow us to examine the consistency of choices made by teams with strictly opposed preferences, and the effects of ...
Atherton +18 more
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Stress transiently affects pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
Stress bias decision-making processes by favoring the shift to habits as a result of changes in corticostriatal circuits. Given that these same circuits are implicated in action control and outcome encoding implicated in adaptive responses we herein ...
Pedro eMorgado +7 more
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Optimal Number of Choices in Rating Contexts
In many settings people must give numerical scores to entities from a small discrete set. For instance, rating physical attractiveness from 1--5 on dating sites, or papers from 1--10 for conference reviewing.
Ganzfried, Sam, Yusuf, Farzana
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Are people ethical? An experimental approach [PDF]
Do ethical motivations and attitudes affect behaviour? We examine this issue in six Prisoner´s Dilemma and Prisoner´s Dilemma related games using an online experiment where individuals were asked to make choices and subsequently to express the ...
Dietrich, M., Rowen, D.
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