Browsing by Subject "decision-making"
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(2017-03-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Integrated Computational Decision ScienceMy overarching modeling goal for my dissertation is to maximize generalization – some function of data and knowledge – from one sample, with its observations drawn independently from the distribution D, to another sample ...
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(2013-04-10)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation uses cognitive fit to present a novel approach to choosing whether to analyze clinical data assuming a categorical or dimensional latent variable structure. Cross-sectional and longitudinal models assuming ...
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(2022-02-11)Department: Nursing ScienceBackground: Despite newer research and professional organizational recommendations supporting shared decision-making and vaginal breech birth as a reasonable option for appropriately screened candidates, planned vaginal ...
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(Neuron, 2008-12)This article reports the discovery, from the first full-scale law and neuroscience experiment, of the brain activity underlying punishment decisions. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: PsychologyThe orbitofrontal cortex has been speculated to play an important role in the processes that allow emotional factors to influence decision-making. In recent neuroimaging studies, orbitofrontal activity patterns have been ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)The purpose of this study is to understand differences in rapid decision-making processes between anesthesiologists with excellent, medium, and poor critical event management skills. A panel of expert clinicians and educators ...
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(2023-08)Black Women Education Leaders, Inc. (BWEL) is a national, nonprofit professional organization that seeks to amplify the voices of Black women in educational leadership roles offer professional development, and award ...
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Women's Decisional Conflict, Anxiety and Coping Strategies Following Diagnosis of Fetal Abnormality (2008-05-12)Department: Nursing ScienceFor most women pregnancy is a positive transition in their life. The diagnosis of a fetal abnormality creates an uncertain outcome for the transitional process of becoming a parent. A prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality ...
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(2010-08-12)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores women’s decision-making and experiences with the medical, social, and moral issues of open-uterine surgery to repair spina bifida. Part I identifies the medical and ethical discourses that typically ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)Reward processing studies of anhedonia have provided a great deal of support to the idea that this common symptom of depression and schizophrenia is characterized in part by decreased motivation to pursue rewards. However, ...