Browsing by Subject "decision making"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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(2009-12-03)Department: NeuroscienceHow does the brain select visual targets for eye movements? We recorded neural activity while macaques performed visual search in which they were trained to move their eyes to a target stimulus among an array of distractor ...
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(2013-04-08)Department: PsychologyPerceptual decision making is a fundamental component of goal-directed behavior. Even simple perceptual decisions require interactions among different neuronal populations within and across brain areas. To relate neuronal ...
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(2022-1)Brava (pseudonym) is the leading social network for athletes. In conversations with Brava’s executive leaders in the fall of 2020, they identified excessive complexity in decision-making practices as a consistent problem ...
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(Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020-02)Background Clinical application of population pharmacokinetics (popPK) is of increasing interest to patients with hemophilia, providers, and payers. Routine use of popPK profiles in factor replacement prophylaxis decision ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 2009)We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
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(2012-02-09)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis research project examines school superintendents’ advice-seeking behavior as it relates to strategic decision making. Using an exploratory design intended to launch follow-on studies to pioneer this field of research ...
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(2013-08-12)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation develops a methodology that provides information to make optimal decisions with respect to the mission and maintenance of a system. A great amount of information is needed about a system to make such ...
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(2013-05-02)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis project is concerned with clinician and family communication in critical care. In this thesis I address the development of expectations by clinicians and family members in critical care settings, the processes involved ...
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(2020-01-20)Department: PsychologyEvery day, we engage in countless interactions with others. Navigating these interactions requires us to think about others’ minds. We use our observations to make inferences about the beliefs, desires, and goals of the ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
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Uncertainty Quantification and Decision Making in Hierarchical Development of Computational Models (2009-07-27)Department: Civil EngineeringAs engineering systems grow in size and complexity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to assess their performance through full scale testing. Modeling and simulation fill the gap left by the lack of full scale testing ...