Programmed decisions

A significant proportion of patients and informal caregivers favor an active role in decisions concerning their health. Simultaneously, governments aim to shift treatment from a professional care setting to a community setting, in light of an ageing population, a decreasing number of health workers and allocation of scarce resources.

12p vishanshan 27-06-2024 1 1   Download

Part 2 of ebook "The paradox of points: Theoretical foundation and empirical evidence of medium magnitude effects in loyalty programs" provides readers with contents including: empirical examination of medium magnitude effects; conclusions influencing participation and redemption decisions;...

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This study aims to identify students' styles of career choices. The second aim is to investigate what factors influence career choice style. The third aim is to determine whether all students of education programs want to become teachers one day. This research model is a relational model that uses multinomial logistic regression.

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This paper reviews research on leveraging genetic algorithms (GAs)–adaptive bioinspired search techniques–to enhance decision-making in construction management spanning planning, scheduling, and control.

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—Through a correlative comparative analysis, the purpose of this study is to utilize LP and the data accumulated between (2009 - 2017) to investigate the optimality of the current transportation strategy of actual costs to transport major Jordanian exports and imports. Study findings reveal that current exporting and importing strategies are ineffective. Results assert that decision-makers have not developed nor have taken the required action needed to resolve excessive expenditures.

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Part 2 book "Rules of thumb for chemical engineers - A manual of quick, accurate solutions to eievday process engineering problerns" includes content: Pneumatic conveying, blending, process evaluation, reliability, metallurgy, safety, controls, troubleshooting, startup, energy conservation, shortcut methods for decisions, process modeling using linear programming, properties, approximate conversion factors.

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Pathogenic germline variants (PGVs) in certain genes are linked to higher lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and can influence preventive surgery decisions and therapy choices. Public health programs ofer genetic screening based on criteria designed to assess personal risk and identify individuals more likely to carry PGVs, dividing patients into screened and non-screened groups.

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Ebook "Agricultural research management" will provide those individuals who manage research with methods and procedures that can be used in their management organization. Agricultural research is one of the most widespread forms of organized research in the world, in both developed and developing countries. Management of agricultural research involves many decisions that have scientific, social and political consequences.

396p tachieuhoa 28-01-2024 4 2   Download

Ebook "Decision support for forest management" has been developed as a textbook of decision support methods for students and can also serve as a handbook for practical foresters. It is based on the research we have carried out and lectures we have given over the past years. We have set out to present all the methods in enough details and examples that they can be adopted from this book.

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Ebook "The forest and the city: The cultural landscape of urban woodland" introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal.

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Ebook "Stochastic optimization methods in finance and energy: New financial products and energy market strategies" presents a collection of contributions dedicated to applied problems in the financial and energy sectors that have been formulated and solved in a stochastic optimization framework. The invited authors represent a group of scientists and practitioners, who cooperated in recent years to facilitate the growing penetration of stochastic programming techniques in real-world applications, inducing a significant advance over a large spectrum of complex decision problems.

499p tuongnhuoclan 28-11-2023 8 5   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Cost accounting: Analysis and control" provides readers with contents including: relevant costs for decisions; direct costing and absorption costing; budgetary planning; budgetary control; standard costing; linear programming and cost accounting; capital budgeting; project financing and the cost of capital; the analysis of capital investment decisions; risk and uncertainty in capital budgeting;...

164p tuongnhuoclan 27-11-2023 9 4   Download

Part 1 of ebook "CIMA's official study system: Management accounting - Decision management (Managerial level)" provides readers with contents including: revision of basic aspects, classifications and approaches to cost accounting; absorption costing, activity-based costing and marginal costing; breakeven analysis; relevant cost and short-term decisions; linear programming; pricing; risk and uncertainty; investment appraisal;...

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Ebook "Modeling performance measurement: Applications and implementation issues in DEA" presents unified results from several authors’ recent DEA research. These new DEA methodology and techniques are developed in application-driven scenarios that go beyond the identification of the best-practice frontier and seek solutions to aid managerial decisions. These new DEA developments are well-grounded in real world applications.

417p loivantrinh 29-10-2023 9 2   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "The car care book" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 9 - Suspension and steering; Chapter 10 - Heating, air conditioning, and optional equipment; Chapter 11 - Your maintenance program; Chapter 12 - A look at repairs; Chapter 13 - The repair-it/replace-it decision; Chapter 14 - Buying tips for parts and insurance; Chapter 15 - Buying a new car; Chapter 16 - Leasing; Chapter 17 - Electric and hybrid cars;...

229p dangsovu 20-10-2023 6 5   Download

Ebook "Introduction to machine learning" includes content: Preliminaries, boolean functions, using version spaces for learning, neural networks, statistical learning, decision trees, inductive logic programming, computational learning theory, unsupervised learning,... and other contents.

209p haojiubujain07 20-09-2023 6 2   Download

Ebook "Physical modeling in MATLAB® (Version 3.0.0)" presents the entire modeling process, including model selection, analysis, simulation, and validation. I explain this process in Chapter 1, and there are examples throughout the book. ˆ Simulation is an approach to modeling that uses computer programs to implement models and generate predictions. This book shows how simulations are used to run experiments, answer questions, and guide decision making.

169p tieulangtran 28-09-2023 4 1   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Sales and distribution management: Decisions, strategies, and cases" provides readers with contents including: sales force management; sales personnel management; recruitment and selection; sales training; motivating sales personnel; compensating sales personnel; managing expenses of sales personnel; sales meetings and sales contests; controlling sales personnel, evaluating and supervising; controlling the sales effort; the sales budget; targets and sales management;...

370p thamnhuocgiai 24-09-2023 6 5   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Search methodologies: Introductory tutorials in optimization and decision support techniques" provides readers with contents including: classical techniques; integer programming; genetic algorithms; scatter search; genetic programming; artificial immune systems; swarm intelligence; tabu search; simulated annealing; GRASP: greedy randomized adaptive search procedures; variable neighborhood search;...

344p thamnhuocgiai 24-09-2023 6 4   Download

Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Search methodologies: Introductory tutorials in optimization and decision support techniques" provides readers with contents including: very large-scale neighborhood search; constraint programming; multi-objective optimization; sharpened and focused no free lunch and complexity theory; machine learning; fuzzy reasoning; rough-set-based decision support; hyper-heuristics; approximations and randomization; fitness landscapes;...

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