... supporting five university -based research teams and funded their efforts to recruit forecasters, set up websites for eliciting forecasts, hire statisticians for aggregating forecasts, and conduct ... you might want to move very fast, before you fully process the information That’s all wellknown and discussed elsewhere For us, we’re finding more evidence for the value of thoughtful system-two ... useful for our forecasting tournament To make a forecasting tournament work we have to translate that hedgehog-like hunch into a testable proposition like, will Greece leave the Eurozone or formally...
Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:34
... ‘guardians’ Shun force Be efficient Shun trading Make rich use of leisure Come to voluntary agreements Promote comfort and convenience Exert prowess Be ostentatious Be honest Dissent for the sake ... largesse Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens Invest for productive purposes Adhere to tradition Be exclusive Respect hierarchy Show fortitude Compete Be industrious Respect contracts Be thrifty ... will not be taken as a personal criticism and will even be rewarded This reinforces the independent-equal construct for physicians Dissent by a physician in an administrative setting, however,...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Problems of decision making in rural development NGOs a case study from india
... Organisation for International Development Cooperation (Translated from Dutch) OXFAM - The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief PDS – Public Distribution System PRADAN - Professional Assistance for Development ... Sameeksha Thakur a research assistant for FORD; and Mr M.K Bhat, former consultant to NOVIB 46 Consequently, among the beneficiaries, who were interviewed for projects in the three domains, most ... significant for Dharma or moral code of conduct of Hindu life Dana was believed to be essential for attaining Moksha or salvation.90 In ancient and medieval India, voluntarism had many forms For example,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11
Báo cáo toán học: " Decision making for cognitive radio equipment: analysis of the first 10 years of exploration" potx
... position paper Fixed tv white space solutions for wireless isp network operators [Online]: http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/tv-white-space-position -paper- fixed-tv-white-space-solutions -for- wireless-isp-networkoperators/1115419 ... operations before given specific orders to the actuators (i.e., before reconfiguration in CR contexts) Depending on the level of sophistication, this step can deal with metric analysis, performance ... dimension of the design space For instance, some constraints on the environment such as, “imposed fixed waveform” might limit some objectives such as “find a waveform that maximizes the spectral...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20
báo cáo khoa học: "Rationality versus reality: the challenges of evidence-based decision making for health policy makers" ppt
... search for a solution; therefore, they 'satisfice', by choosing the first alternative that meets or 'satisfies' minimum criteria for solving the problem rather than continuing the search for the ... which to process incoming information [63] The nature of goals as drivers of information processing suggests that goals filter information processing and determine what information is attained, retained, ... storage that is then brought forward as matching information General knowledge contains one's information about how the world functions Goal knowledge consists of information one possesses about...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22
báo cáo khoa học: " The economics of health and climate change: key evidence for decision making" pdf
... 550 ppmv by 2170 The table presents results for 550 ppmv For the 750 ppmv scenario, the costs vary US$ 4.5 to US$ 5.4 billion The variation is accounted for mainly by uncertainties in the number ... latter used disease figures from Ebi (2008) For the health impacts, Ebi drew on the WHO Global Burden of Disease Study The table presents results for 550 ppmv For the 750 ppmv scenario, the costs vary ... considerations Therefore, a review of studies should be carried out that provides a climate change angle - for example, assessing how costs and benefits would be altered under climate change Based on determinants...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " Experiences of treatment decision making for young people diagnosed with depressive disorders: a qualitative study in primary care and specialist mental health settings BMC Psychiatry " pps
... time Information received was lacking or poor Many clients sought information elsewhere Some clients felt reluctant or unable to ask for more information Information valued as important for decision-making ... important that this information accounted for their values and preferences Some clients felt unable to ask for information, even though they felt that they didn’t have sufficient information to be ... health to better inform himself Some clients Page 21 of 47 felt reluctant or unable to ask for more information from their clinician, particularly if the rapport was compromised Yet information was...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records"
... the importance of generating data for valid epidemiological analyses across herds They would therefore both score metritis and make decisions on treatments in a more uniform way across herds, ... metritis scoring is enforced by law This was the primary motivating factor for running the herd health programme, rather than, for example, creating possibilities to perform epidemiological analyses ... improved before analysing the data on national level Causal analysis of cow-level and herd-level risk factors for metritis at the national level based on Danish central data base files was performed...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of an English Achievement Test for Third-year Non- major students at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University and some suggestions for chan
... summarized in the form of the table called A checklist for Test Evaluation The checklist is for rating of the adequacy of a test for any given purpose -8- Table 2.1 A checklist for test evaluation ... consistent in rating subjective items and rounding rules It is true for the writing and translation tasks For example, two test papers of 5.5 were rounded either up to or down to For the writing ... not form part of formal assessment procedures, their construction and scoring need not be purely towards the intermediate objectives on which a more formal progress achievement tests are based...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05
A STUDY ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE FINAL ACHIEVEMENT COMPUTER-BASED MCQS TEST 1 FOR THE 4TH SEMESTER NON - ENGLISH MAJORS AT HANOI UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
... Scoring format for each semester Table The syllabus for 4th semester (for non English majors) Table Time allocation for language skills and sections Table Specification grid for the final computer -based ... Daily assessment 20% Daily assessment 20% Paper test 10% Paper test 10% Computer -based 70% Computer -based 70% MCQs test MCQs test Table 2: Scoring format for each semester This study is only focused ... were adopted to obtain information for the study: - Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 for internal consistency reliability estimate - Item difficulty and item discrimination formulae mentioned in section...
Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46
Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... services for the lower classes He further discussed that MFIs should offer flexible and customized lending services for the lower income groups rather than strict and uniform loan products for all ... experiencing rapid progression in technology and human development for attaining high efficiencies and long term sustainability In its efforts for making the world a better place to live in, nations worldwide ... potential to alleviate poverty while paying for itself and perhaps even turning a profit—“doing well by doing good.” This phenomenon formed the basis for the emergence of microfinance in the globalized...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48
Tài liệu KRONE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR KRONE® HIGHBAND 1 PAIR TEST PLUG SET pptx
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 13:15
Accounting for managers interpreting accounting information for decision making
... book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in which at least two trees are planted for each one used for paper production For Loredana and Alexis Contents ... non-financial performance measurement, a subject of steadily increasing importance for those managers who are responsible for achieving performance targets, as well as for accountants (performance measurement ... information and the broad spectrum of ‘users’ of that information While the primary concern of this book is the use of accounting information for decision-making, the book takes a ACCOUNTING FOR...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 11:32
Validity of the achievement written test for non major, second year students at economics department, hanoi open university
... for each short answer - for each 20% lexical option or open cloze: factual text grammar Narrative and and factual of Skill re-ordering 80 words 10 (2 for each) 10% 10 (2 for each) 10% 10 (2 for ... definitions: syllabusbased and theory -based construct definitions Syllabus -based construct definitions are likely to be most useful when teachers need to obtain detailed information on students’ ... syllabus -based construct definitions, theory -based construct definitions are based on a theoretical model of language ability rather than the contents of a language teaching syllabus For example,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:45
Tài liệu Topical Fluoride Recommendations for High-Risk Children Development of Decision Support Matrix pptx
... interventions for high-risk children Members of the expert panel participated in facilitated discussions during the 2-day meeting to reach consensus on several key areas for the purpose of informing ... from the field, MCHB identified a need for a straightforward document that could provide guidance and elected to develop a decision support matrix that could inform programs when making decisions ... decisionmaking tool for use in group settings that is straightforward, believing that the ease of use would facilitate oral health interventions As such, the target audience for the decision support...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20