Tag: Decision

The Concise Guide to Decision Making and Ethics in Dysphagia 2017


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English | ISBN: 1907826262 | 2017 | 80 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Much is known about swallowing problems in terms of what might be done to fix or ameliorate things from a biomechanical or physiological perspective. We can also recite the mantra of evidence-based practice in our sleep. And yet decisions and interventions are still fraught with tension, anxiety and sometimes even conflict. The Concise Guide to Decision Making and Ethics in Dysphagia explains why decision in dysphagia are difficult, what frameworks might help structure a more robust process, and links evidence to ethics to cases. The reader is guided through theoretical principles of risk analysis and bioethics to support real clinicians dealing with patients, their families, and carers on a day-to-day basis. A substantial list of references guides the reader to the evidence base and source material to support students and clinicians at all levels.

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Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support


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English | 2009 | pages: 501 | ISBN: 0521883342, 0521709784 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making. Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support explores perspectives from many different disciplines to show how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions. It considers both the use of computers and databases to support decisions as well as human aids to building analyses and some fast and frugal tricks to aid more consistent decision making. In its exploration of decision support it draws together results and observations from decision theory, behavioural and psychological studies, artificial intelligence and information systems, philosophy, operational research and organisational studies. This provides a valuable resource for managers with decision-making responsibilities and students from a range of disciplines, including management, engineering and information systems.

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Crossroads Of Decision The State Department and Foreign Policy, 1933-1937


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English | 2002 | ISBN: 0813190576 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.2 mb
In this provocative interpretation of New Deal diplomacy, Howard Jablon challenges the view that the State Department was wiser and more expert at international maneuver than was President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early years of his presidency. These were years of growing world tension, with the preliminary shots of World War II being fired as Japan took over Manchuria, Italy made Ethiopia an extension of its new Roman Empire, and all the European great powers tried out their new weaponry in Spain. The author argues that the department’s advice in this period actually led to unfortunate decisions which later had a considerable impact on events leading to World War II.

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Finance for IT Decision Makers A Practical Handbook for Buyers, Sellers and Managers


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1999 | 214 Pages | ISBN: 3540762329 | PDF | 4 MB
Purpose The purpose of this book is to explain to information technology (IT) decision makers those aspects of finance that most affect their work. Most IT decision makers belong in one of two categories. Some know a lot about IT, but less about finance; the others know a lot about finance, but less about IT. In my experience, those in the first category often have to make financial decisions. Those in the second also, of course, have to make financial decisions, but about things whose characteristics stretch the normal financial and accounting rules up to, and sometimes beyond, their elastic limit. Among the characteristics of IT that provide interesting challenges for financial people are the following: * The accelerating rate of change * The short and unpredictable useful life of IT assets * The mixture of hardware, software and services * Upgradability * Networks that cross country boundaries * IT jargon Asked what characteristics of finance provide interesting challenges for IT people, many of them would answer – "Everything". However, items in the following selection are often particular causes of wonder: * Leasing * Why financial models always shrink benefits but never costs * Being told that a company with a mountain of profit is about to fail through lack of cash * Discovering that their budget has been charged with £113 485.

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Implementation and Benefits of Digital Twin on Decision Making and Data Quality Management


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3658444525 | 231 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
Digital twin technology is becoming important for the realization of Industry 4.0 using cyber-physical systems (CPS) and information technology. CPS form the backbone to support the creation of a network for decentralized and autonomous decision-making. The design principles for Industry 4.0 serve as guidelines for virtualization concepts that are virtual copies of the physical world and create a link between the real and virtual worlds to collect data and monitor processes, the so-called digital twin. In this book, a theoretical digital twin-driven decision-making model has been developed that combines corporate data quality management, a process digital twin, and a model-driven decision support system. It leverages the benefits of the digital twin to create, test and build a process in the virtual world that supports decision making by combining data, analytics and visualization of insights to help managers make better decisions

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