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Decision-Making by Children [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child resistance.
Shelly Lundberg   +2 more
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Decision‐making competence and cognitive abilities: Which abilities matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Decision-making competence is a skill that is associated with numerous positive life outcomes. Even though multiple cognitive abilities have been shown to predict decision-making competence, few studies have incorporated a large test battery tapping into
Gustav Tinghög   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Letter to the Editor regarding the article: "identifying pre-hospital factors associated with outcome for major trauma patients in a regional trauma network: an exploratory study"

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2017
The aim of this Letter to the Editor was to report some methodological shortcomings in a recently published article. Issues regarding missing values and overfitting are mentioned.
Charlie A. Sewalt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Product Sampling for New Product Diffusion Incorporating Multiple-Unit Ownership

open access: yesAbstract and Applied Analysis, 2014
Multiple-unit ownership of nondurable products is an important component of sales in many product categories. Based on the Bass model, this paper develops a new model considering the multiple-unit adoptions as a diffusion process under the influence of ...
Zhineng Hu, Yurong Pei, Ruikun Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Institutions and corporate decision-making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter explores the relationship between institutions and firm level decision making. The former draws on and compares economic and socio-economic (comparative) traditions, and especially, the distinction between rights and relationship approaches ...
Wood, G
core   +1 more source

Pregnant women’s views on how to promote the use of a decision aid for Down syndrome prenatal screening: a theory-informed qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background For pregnant women and their partners, the decision to undergo Down syndrome prenatal screening is difficult. Patient decision aids (PtDA) can help them make an informed decision.
Titilayo Tatiana Agbadjé   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of an online patient decision aid for kidney failure treatment modality decisions

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2022
Background Patient decision aids (PtDAs) support patients and clinicians in shared decision-making (SDM). Real-world outcome information may improve patients’ risk perception, and help patients make decisions congruent with their expectations and values.
Noel Engels   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analogy in Decision Making [PDF]

open access: yesMathematics of Operations Research, 2015
In the context of decision making under uncertainty, I formalize the concept of analogy: an analogy between two decision problems is a mapping that transforms one problem into the other while preserving the problem’s structure. After identifying the basic structure of a decision problem, I introduce the concepts of analogical reasoning operator and of
openaire   +2 more sources

Selecting Personnel with the Weighted Cross-Entropy TOPSIS of Hesitant Picture Fuzzy Linguistic Sets

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics, 2021
Personnel selection is a key important role for the human resource department of organization, and hesitant picture fuzzy linguistic sets (HPFLSs) elaborated the advantages of both hesitant linguistic set and picture fuzzy set, which is more flexible and
Xiao-Hui Wu, Lin Yang, Jie Qian
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The decay in the proficiency of the native language (L1), known as first language attrition, is one of the least understood phenomena associated with the acquisition of a second language (L2).
Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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