Search results for "decision"

Present State of Research Regarding University Choice and Attractiveness of the Study Area

2013

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the present state, trends and focus of research regarding the factors that influence the decision making process in choosing a university in which a potential student will study. The study has been accomplished using the methodology of bibliographic study and qualitative research, using various secondary sources. The study focuses on the analysis of the present state of research concentrated on Germany's area and constitutes the basis of a comparative management research Romania-Germany. From various German studies it is shown that for most of the students the most important factor in choosing their university is represented by the study spec…

Simulation Assessment of Cognitive Readiness

2013

Simulation-based scenarios are used in different approaches for research on complex problem-solving processes. The micro-world approach in this respect has become well known. Despite its attractiveness, there still are concerns about the validity that can be achieved in measuring cognitive functions by means of this method. The chapter refers to an alternative. Quasi-experimental simulations are applied to indicate the individual’s underlying capacity to function in complex, dynamic scenarios. Typically participants get deeply involved in the defined task, resulting in high motivation. The participants’ responses, within the ongoing events, mirror their performance in real-world tasks which…

The Influence of Task and Context-Based Complexity on the Final Choice

2011

In this chapter, we present a new approach for the design of choice task experiments that analyze the final respondent’s choice but not the decision process.1 The approach creates choice tasks with a one-to-one correspondence between decision strategies and the observed choices. Thus, a decision strategy used is unambiguously deduced from an observed choice. Furthermore, the approach systematically manipulates the characteristics of choice tasks and takes into account measurement errors concerning the preferences of the decision makers. We use this approach to generate respondent-specific choice tasks with either low or high complexity and study their influence on the use of compensatory an…

Altered neural responses to social fairness in bipolar disorder

2020

Highlights • Bipolar disorder is characterized by impaired processing of social fairness. • BD patients exhibit increased rejection of moderate unfairness in Ultimatum Game. • BD patients display decreased response to moderate unfairness in anterior insula. • BD patients deactivate posterior and middle insula in response to unfairness. • Trait impulsivity positively correlated with deactivations in posterior insula.

2013

To identify factors limiting performance in multitone intensity discrimination, we presented sequences of five pure tones alternating in level between loud (85 dB SPL) and soft (30, 55, or 80 dB SPL). In the “overall-intensity task”, listeners detected a level increment on all of the five tones. In the “masking task”, the level increment was imposed only on the soft tones, rendering the soft tones targets and loud tones task-irrelevant maskers. Decision weights quantifying the importance of the five tone levels for the decision were estimated using methods of molecular psychophysics. Compatible with previous studies, listeners placed higher weights on the loud tones than on the soft tones i…

How is Visual Recognition Entrained by Auditory Background Rhythms?

2014

AbstractRecent studies have reported that the oscillations of auditory attention entrained by a background rhythmic sequence can influence performance in visual recognition tasks. We have designed an experimental paradigm in which a visual item (either a bisyllabic word or a familiar face) is displayed on screen in two consecutive parts while a musical rhythm is played in the background. Depending on the timing conditions, the first or the second part of the item could be presented either in-synchrony or out-of-synchrony with the beats of the auditory rhythm. In a first series of experiments, participants performed a lexical decision task on bisyllabic 5-letter strings. Results show that wh…

Database Versioning 2.0, a Transparent SQL Approach Used in Quantitative Management and Decision Making

2015

Abstract Managerial decisions are based on accurate information and in today's time raw data is produced even with a stroke of a key. Regardless of the data creating process one needs to know how the information was extracted and which pool of data was used. One important factor is time therefore we need to structure it in layers of data history in such a way that it can be analyzed, (post)process, in order to be able to retrieve valuable information. The simplest way is to use a Database Management System (DBMS), but even with such a management system we face the issue of making it a self-contained database on each version of data added. Our proposed system, a continuation of previous work…

Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) applied to the adaptation of the automobile industry to meet the emission standards of climate cha…

2021

Abstract Facing global climate change challenges entails a sustainable development of transportation. Governments and automobile manufacturers are highly aware of how a large-scale deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigate global warming. This study aids the design of the adaptation strategies of the automotive industry to meet global goals on climate change by means of a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), which makes it possible to measure the level of actors’ satisfaction. This allows identification of a combination of factors leading to the outcome while dealing with uncertain environments due to the heterogeneous nature…

Le intese restrittive della concorrenza nell'attività dell'AGCM (anno 2012)

2013

La rassegna analizza sinteticamente le decisioni in materia di intese restrittive della concorrenza, adottate, nel corso del 2012, dall’Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato (qui di seguito « Agcm »). In quest’arco temporale, non si ravvisa alcuna significativa inversione di tendenza nella prassi dell’Agcm; in particolar modo, per quel che concerne le nozioni di « pregiudizio al commercio tra gli Stati membri », « mercato rilevante », « impresa » e « intesa », ai sensi dell’art. 2 della l. n. 287/1990 e dell’art. 101 del Tfue. Si segnala, inoltre, il fatto che, in ottemperanza ad alcune decisioni del tribunale amministrativo, in più occasioni l’Agcm ha dovuto rideterminare le san…

LE INTESE RESTRITTIVE DELLA CONCORRENZA NELL’ATTIVITÀ DELL’AGCM (ANNO 2014)

2015

L’esame dei provvedimenti assunti in materia di intese restrittive della concorrenza dall’Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato (qui di seguito « Agcm ») nel corso del 2014 mostra un significativo incremento numerico rispetto agli anni immediatamente precedenti. Parallelamente, è da ravvisare un’iniziale inversione di tendenza nell’aumen- to dei procedimenti conclusisi con l’accettazione degli impegni e con la pronuncia di non violazione per mancanza di sufficienti indizi probatori circa la sussistenza dell’intesa illecita. L’Agcm, infine, ha confermato la propria attenzione nei confronti del settore farmaceutico, delle libere professioni e dei contratti di distribuzione (special…