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Discretionary Lane Change Decision Making using Reinforcement Learning with Model-Based Exploration

International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2019
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques have been used to solve a discretionary lane change decision-making problem and are showing promising results.
Songan Zhang, H. Peng, S. Nageshrao, H. E. Tseng   +3 more
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Weight in discretionary decision-making

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1999
House of Lords authority in Tesco v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] 1 WLR 759 has reinforced the well-established principle that judicial review will distinguish between relevant and irrelevant considerations pertaining to the exercise of a power, and leave the weighing of the relevant ones to the decision maker. It has also problematized
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Understanding and improving discretionary judgment and decision-making in child protection practice: Towards a whole-of-system policy evaluation

Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 2019
Discretionary judgment is a necessary and desirable attribute of child protection practice and decision-making. Increasingly, approaches towards accountability in child protection services act to constrain the use of practitioner discretionary judgement ...
David Hodgson, Lynelle Watts, D. Chung
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Management Changes and Discretionary Accounting Decisions

Journal of Accounting Research, 1973
A number of papers have appeared in recent years which describe empirical investigations of changes in accounting methods.1 Explanations have been offered regarding the motivations for accounting changes, such as the desire to smooth periodic income, to create ad hoc fluctuations in income, to maximize or minimize reported income and so on. In addition
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Discretionary Methodological Decisions in Applied Research

Sociological Methods & Research, 1977
The process of completing any piece of empirical research requires that a large number of methodological decisions be made at each step in the undertaking. Some of these decisions are very clearly prescribed by conventional practice, while others allow for wide discretion.
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McCleskey and the Discretionary Death Decision

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
While reflecting on his fifteen-year tenure as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Lewis Powell stated that, if given the chance, he would change his vote in only one of the hundreds of cases decided during his time on the Court.
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Discretionary Accounting Decisions and Income Normalization

Journal of Accounting Research, 1970
The purpose of this paper is to report on another study aimed at determining whether the motive of income smoothing or income normalization can explain management's selection of accounting alternatives.1 Like Dascher and Malcom (see pages 253-59 in this issue), I designed the study to avoid some of the methodological problems discussed by Copeland.2 In
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Self-serving behavior in managers' discretionary information disclosure decisions

Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1996
Abstract Research has shown that managers display self-serving behavior in a variety of discretionary information production decisions. We test whether such behavior is also manifest in discretionary information disclosure decisions — in particular, in the common stock return performance comparisons now required in corporate proxy statements. We find
Wilbur G. Lewellen, Taewoo Park, Byung T. Ro   +2 more
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JUSTICE, MERCY, AND EQUALITY IN DISCRETIONARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING

Journal of Law and Religion, 2020
AbstractThis essay examines whether, in exercising their discretion, criminal justice officials should do justice, grant mercy, and treat alleged or convicted offenders equally. Although it endorses doing justice, the essay maintains that officials should almost never reduce a just punishment simply to be merciful. Public officials are fiduciaries, and
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Bank Managers' Heterogeneous Decisions on Discretionary Loan Loss Provisions

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2001
This study examines bank managers' three major motivations for discretionary behavior with respect to loan loss provisions: signaling, income smoothing, and capital management. To do so, it utilizes a bank-specific time-series regression approach that captures heterogeneity in the banks' priorities and strategies for alternative motives and compares ...
Gerald J. Lobo, Dong-Hoon Yang
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