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Decision-making through sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
From immemorial time, dams have contributed significantly for the progress of civilizations. For this reason, nowadays, there is a vast engineering heritage.
Aguado de Cea, Antonio   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Radial Basis Function Neural Network with Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Regional Logistics Demand Prediction

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2014
Regional logistics prediction is the key step in regional logistics planning and logistics resources rationalization. Since regional economy is the inherent and determinative factor of regional logistics demand, it is feasible to forecast regional ...
Zhineng Hu, Yixin Zhang, Liming Yao
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Decision Making [PDF]

open access: yesVeterinary Record, 2016
Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) are a standardised, succinct summary of research evidence organised around a clinical question, using a form of evidence synthesis based on the principles of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) and evidence‐based veterinary medicine (EBVM).
Gwen, Rees   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Decision-making process framework at the planning phase of housing development project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Every housing development project needs to go through several procedures which consist of a decision-making process. By practising the decision-making process since the planning phase, the relevant decision-maker is assisted in analysing and organising ...
Mohd Sofberi, Nurul Atiqah
core   +1 more source

A Dynamical Innovation Diffusion Model with Fuzzy Coefficient and Its Application to Local Telephone Diffusion in China

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2013
This paper studies the innovation diffusion problem with the affection of urbanization, proposing a dynamical innovation diffusion model with fuzzy coefficient, and uses the shifting rate of people from rural areas stepping into urban areas to show the ...
Zhigao Liao, Jiuping Xu, Liming Yao
doaj   +1 more source

Beliefs in Decision-Making Cascades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This work explores a social learning problem with agents having nonidentical noise variances and mismatched beliefs. We consider an $N$-agent binary hypothesis test in which each agent sequentially makes a decision based not only on a private observation,
Goyal, Vivek K   +4 more
core   +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

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

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

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

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