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Peter Gardenfors
Decision, Probability, and Utility

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Description: Decision theory and the theory of rational choice have recently been the subjects of considerable research by philosophers and economists. However, no adequate anthology exists which can be used to introduce students to the field. This volume is designedto meet that need. The essays included are organized into five parts covering the foundations of decision theory, the conceptualization of probability and utility, pholosophical difficulties with the rules of rationality and with the assessment of probability, and causal decision theory. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the field and introductions to each part. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521336589
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Bobby R. Patton, Timothy M. Downs
Decision-Making Group Interaction: Achieving Quality (4th Edition)

— y.
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Description: Formerly entitled `Decision-Making Group Interaction,` the new edition of this popular small group book features a new title that reflects the substantial and exciting revision it has undergone. Long known for its unique focus on issuesof quality group interaction, Patton &, Downs` book introduces the communication practices, patterns, and circumstances that promote or inhibit group performance. The Fourth Edition includes several new chapters addressing the most recent developments in the field and a wealth of new case studies, in addition to new and expanded information on a variety of issues: multiculturalism and diversity, strategic planning, conflict management, uses of technology in group contexts, ethics, benchmarking and quality assessment processes, and how to present findings of a group project or work team. For anyone interested in small group communication and/or group decision making. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0321049195
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Nicola Friederike Maaser
Decision-Making in Committees: Game-Theoretic Analysis (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

2010 y.
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Description: Political and economic institutions are typically governed by committees that face the challenge to reconcile the preferences of their members. How should decision rules be designed to generate fair and sustainable agreements, for example if committee members represent groups of different sizes? This book uses game-theoretic concepts and models to address the issue of political decision-making processes. In addition to providing a survey on basic game-theoretic tools in the analysis of political decisions, the author looks at specific issues such as two-tiered voting systems or the influence of lobbyists on legislative committees, and shows how the models can be applied to real-world contexts such as the EU decision-making institutions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3642041523
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Decision-Making in Engineering Design: Theory and Practice (Decision Engineering)

2006 y.
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Description: We use our brains when we create plans and designs. The resulting plans and designs take physical form, however, what we thought about, the alternatives we tried, and the constraints we recognized while we were making these plans and designs are usually not written anywhere. Therefore, those who only get to see the results, e.g. the final text and drawings, do notA learn what led the designer to reach such conclusions and as a consequence neverA understand the real design. Decision-making in Engineering Design is the first monograph to provide a much-needed insight into the ways in which our minds behave when we make decisions, focusing particularly on decisions made about design. Written by members of ‘The Practice of Machine Design Research Group’ and consisting of four parts, Decision-making in Engineering Design uses case studies to illustrate the decisions made by engineers in a variety of situations. A variety of diagrams are also used to express the decision… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1846280001
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John Peterson, Elizabeth Bomberg
Decision-Making in the European Union (European Union)

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Description: The European Union is a uniquely successful experiment in international cooperation and modern governance. The creation of a single currency and impending eastern enlargement make EU decision-making more important than ever before in determining howEurope is governed. Based on exhaustive and original research, this book provides a clear and theoretically grounded analysis of how the European Union makes decisions. The book provides in-depth coverage of a number of major policy sectors: the internalmarket, external trade, agriculture, cohesion, the environment, research and technological development, and the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Its central themes--that informal norms often matter more than formal rules, that agency often matters more than structure, and that abrupt change often punctuates deadlock--are developed systematically throughout. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312225210
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Paul B. Pedersen, Daniel Hernandez
Decisional Dialogues in a Cultural Context: Structured Exercises

— y.
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Description: Cultivating sensitivity to ethnographic, demographic, status and affiliation differences between people, this practical and creative resource provides a workbook approach to learning interviewing skills. Numerous activities and exercises are provided to help the interviewer understand the cultural context of decisional interviewing. Case studies are also included to illustrate the types of multicultural situations an interviewer might experience. The book will guide readers toward more accurate interview assessments and appropriate interventions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0761903038
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James A. Murtha
Decisions Involving Uncertainty : An @RISK Tutorial for the Petroleum Industry

— y.
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Description: A great extension of Dr. Murtha`s highly successful seminars on the use of @RISK in the petroleum industry. You start with 2 chapters to get up to speed on the philosophy of risk analysis and the requisite principles in probability, statistics, and MonteCarlo simulation. Following are the basic steps you?d take to actually build, run, and interpret results for a real risk analysis model in @RISK. To make it as hands-on as possible, Dr. Murtha includes lots of petroleum examples - an accompanying CD includes all these examples pre-built in Excel worksheets. Volumetric reserves, exponential decline, porosity and water saturation, waterflood prospect, and competitive bidding are some of the examples. This is a rare offering in that you`ll learn aboutthe concepts of risk analysis while also getting some very solid hands-on experience with risk analysis modelling in @RISK 4.0. A trial version of @RISK 4.0 is also included! [detailed...]

ISBN: 1893281027
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Holmes F. Crouch
Decisions When Retiring: Enhancing Your Nest Egg Between 50 &, 70 with New Elective Contributions &, Catchups (Series 300: Retirees &, Estates)

— y.
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Description: Appropriate for those dealing with retirement issues and decisions, this tax guide is also ideal for those who are forced to retire early. It broaches unmentionables such as the taxation of social security benefits and the mysteries of Form 1099-R. The income woes of premature retirement are explained, the opportunities of retiring late are presented, and private medical savings are covered. Also detailed are distributions from IRAs, home equity conversion, and nonresident state returns. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0944817696
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Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa
Decisions With Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs

— y.
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Description: Many of the complex problems faced by decision makers involve multiple conflicting objectives. This book describes how a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a reasonable and responsible choice among alternatives, can systematically probe his true feelings in order to make those critically important, vexing tradeoffs between incommensurable objectives. The theory is illustrated by many real concrete examples taken from a host of disciplinary settings. The standard approach in decision theory ordecision analysis specifies a simplified single objective like monetary return to maximize. By generalizing from the single objective case to the multiple objective case, this book considerably widens the range of applicability of decision analysis. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521438837
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Kim D. Ward
Decisions Without Mistakes: Common Sense Decision-Making Strategies for Today`s Managers and Leaders

— y.
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Description: Managing and Leading others in the workplace today can be a very challenging experience. With everything changing so quickly and dramatically, the ability to make the right decisions at the right time and for the right reasons is critically important. Employees need and want effective, management/leadership. This book is a very small distillation of some of the common sense principles, attitudes, strategies and techniques that are proven to be most effective in today s fluidly changing business environment. The content in these pages can help any manager/leader develop better business relationships, build more powerful teams, achieve higher goals, reduce stress in themselves and others, but most importantly make Decisions Without Mistakes! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0595258662
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Donald G. Saari
Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected

— y.
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Description: This highly accessible book offers undergraduates and professionals a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow`s and Sen`s theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated. These include inter alia legislative cycles, supply and demand economics, statistical paradoxes, and diverse voting/election paradoxes. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521004047
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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, V. 348, August 31, 2006, Through December 29, 2006

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0160804388
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James G. March
Decisions and Organizations

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Description: For over 30 years, James March has provided perhaps the most profound, sustained and innovative contribution to the field of organizational theory. His work on the nature and process of decision-making in organizations has come to dominate contemporary understanding of not only this issue, but the workings of organizations generally. This book collects together for the first time over 20 of James March`s key essays, including those co-authorized with R.M. Cyert and J.P. Olsen and others. The coverage ranges from his early work on the behavioural theory of the firm, through conflict and adaptive rules in organizations, to decision-making under ambiguity (including the famed `garbage can` model). The book includes a new introduction, summarizing the development of the author`s work and ideas up to the present day. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0631168567
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David A. Welch
Decisions, Decisions: The Art of Effective Decision Making

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Description: You`re tempted to accept a promising job offer in another city, but moving would entail considerable sacrifice on the part of your family. What should you do? Your elderly mother can no longer take care of herself but she doesn`t get along with yourspouse and dreads the prospect of moving into a nursing home. What is the solution? Whether you`re faced with decisions momentous or trivial, how you go about resolving everyday dilemmas will definitely affect your degree of satisfaction in life. In this engrossing and entertaining guide, David Welch, who has studied the decision-making process at the highest levels, shows how both the science and the art of decision making are essential to us all. Welch lays out nine steps to effective decision making and then shows us how to apply these steps to real-world situations. You`ll learn how to assess your own strengths and weaknesses because self-knowledge is critical for making the right decisions. This enjoyable, clearly… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1573929344
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Paul W. Glimcher
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain : The Science of Neuroeconomics (Bradford Books)

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionIn this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the most difficult problems that any environment could present, eliminating the need for dualism by eliminating the need for a reflex theory. Such a mathematically rigorous description of the neural processes that connect sensation and action, he explains, will have its roots in microeconomic theory. Economic theory allows physiologists to define both the optimal course of action that an animal might select and a mathematical route by which that optimal solution can be derived. Glimcher outlines what an economics-based cognitive model might look like and how one would begin to test it empirically…. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262072440
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Paula Marshall
Deck and Patio Design Guide

2008 y.
Publisher: Wiley
Description: Filled with inspiring ideas and dependable planning advice, this resourceful book takes readers through the process of choosing the right kind of outdoor space, creating a smart design, and selecting the best materials for the location and budget. Clear, detailed illustrations and photos visually instruct readers on how designs work to meet the requirements of different settings. Step-by-step overviews of constructing decks and patios ensures complete understanding of what is involved in the building process. Discussions of the pros and cons of a wide range of material choices help homeowners shop for supplies or work with contractors on selections. Expert design ideas for furnishings, lighting, cooking spaces, and more enhance any outdoor living area. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0696236079, 978-0696236075
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Decks (Better Homes &, Gardens Do It Yourself)

2008 y.
Publisher: Wiley
Description: This homeowner`s resource guides do-it-yourselfers to build the deck of their dreams from start to finish. It is filled with detailed photographs and illustrations along with essential how-to information for enhancing any home with a deck. Step-by-step instructions walk readers through the deck-building process in detail, so they have all the information they need at every stage. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0696236591, 978-0696236594
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Alan F. Zundel, Alan Zundel
Declarations of Dependency: The Civic Republican Tradition in U.S. Poverty Policy

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ISBN: 0791447227
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Lucy E. Hornstein
Declarations of a Dinosaur: 10 Laws I`ve Learned as a Family Doctor

2009 y.
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Description: Not long ago, the family doctor provided one-on-one care to patients. Today, that doctor is a dying breed—replaced by medical groups who serve larger numbers of patients more efficiently and professionally, but not quite as personally. In 10 Laws of the Dinosaur, Dr. Lucy E. Hornstein shares her views about being a doctor in solo practice—she recounts both the rewarding and the frustrating. Through engaging stories, Dr. Hornstein explains some of the challenges the family doctor experiences, not only in medicine and patient care, but also in dealing with today’s challenges of running a small business while catering to patients. Every doctor in private practice will identify with these stories, as will anyone who has ever been a patient of an oldfashioned family practitioner. Dr. Hornstein lists the “laws” that have come to dominate her life as a family physician, which can be funny (like, “It is impossible to make an asymptomatic patient feel better”) to serious (“Sometimes people… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1427798702
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Marty A. Bergen
Declarer Play the Bergen Way

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description`Declarer Play the Bergen Way` has been chosen as `The 2005 Bridge Book of the Year.` [detailed...]

ISBN: 0974471429
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Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall

2003 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Формат: 11 см x 18 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-18748-8
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Kathryn Rudie Harrigan
Declining Demand, Divestiture, and Corporate Strategy

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ISBN: 1587981963
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Elizabeth McMillian
Deco &, Streamline Architecture in L.A: A Moderne City Survey

2004 y.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Description: Dramatic photos and fascinating text explore the rich angular ornament, towers, graphics, and exaggerated works created by architects and designers in 1920s to 1940s Los Angeles. Students and admirers of the Art Deco and Streamline styles will delight in the remarkable array of public buildings, office towers, theaters, restaurants, religious structures, apartments, hotels, and individual homes. Many of the leading architects of the era are featured, including Claude Beelman, Morgan, Walls &, Clements, A.C.Martin, Walker &, Eisen: and John &, Donald B.Parkinson. Celebrating populist, progressive, machine-age Los Angeles, this wonderful book showcases the two main categories of Art Deco styles: the zigzag, perpendicular Deco style of the 1920s and the aerodynamic, cubist style of the Streamline 1930s and early `40s. Allied to these are the many L.A. works known as PWA and Classical Moderne, as well as the playful Regency Moderne. With both exterior and interior views, this is an essential… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7643-2008-4
Book size: 230x310; Page extent: 240.

 

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Carolyn Hatch
Deco Lalique: Creator to Consumer

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0888544472
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Andrew Trees
Decoding Love: Why It Takes Twelve Frogs to Find a Prince, and Other Revelations fromthe Science of Attraction

2009 y.
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Description: A smart, entertaining, and eye-opening look at the science of love. Relationships should be so simple. You meet someone. You fall in love. If all goes well, that person falls in love with you. You live happily every after. As Andrew Trees reveals in Decoding Love, this ?romantic storyline? has shaped our thinking about relationships for centuries. But the fairy tale is deeply flawed. Researchers today are making shocking discoveries about how and why we choose the people we love. Drawing from the latest studies in economics, brain science, game theory, evolutionary psychology, and other fields, Decoding Love takes on a topic we all think we understand?how we fall in love?and illustrates that most of our assumptions are wrong. Along the way, Andrew Trees offers surprising new insights into the nature of attraction and desire as well as an intimate look at the strange intersection of romance and the modern world of dating. Throughout, Decoding Love reveals the frequently bizarre… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1583333312
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Charles Seife
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes

2006 y.
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Description: As Charles Seife reveals in this energetic new book, information theory, once the province of philosophers and linguists, has emerged as the crucial science of our time, shedding new light on the mysteries of physics, the nature of space and time and the creation and destruction of the universe itself. With his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible and entertaining, Seife explains how theorists came to understand that information is not a construct of the mind but a fundamental element of the physical world, something that sits inside every living cell and surrounds every black hole in the cosmos. It exists, like energy, even if there is no life to observe it. Starting with the breaking of the Enigma code during World War II and building momentum with the computer revolution, information theory has taken its place at the forefront of theoretical physics as scientists begin to use it to reconcile the paradoxes of relativity and quantum mechanics that have… [detailed...]

ISBN: 067003441X
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Charles Seife
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes

2007 y.
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Description: The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world. Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines cryptology, physics, biology, and mathematics to cast light on the new understanding of the laws that govern life and the universe. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0143038397
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W. M. Adams, Martin Mulligan, William M. Adams
Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era

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ISBN: 1853837490
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Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management

2008 y.
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Description: This book provides a detailed understanding of the issues associated with these processes. The depth and breadth of the treatment is such that the book is suitable as a text book for graduate and post-graduate courses, and will also be useful to those involved in decommissioning projects and radioactive waste management practices, such as project managers, engineers, health physicists and regulators. Although decommissioning is percieved as the dismantling and demolition of existing facilities, the book demonstrates that there is more to it and there are challenging technical issues to face. The book has been divided into three parts. Part I (Radiation Science) is the enabling part covering radiation, biological effects of radiation, radiological protection, and statistical methods. These subject matters are used and referred to throughout the rest of the book. Part II incorporates the whole aspect of decommissioning, project management, safety aspects, environmental impact… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1420073486
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Godfrey Nolan
Decompiling Java

— y.
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ISBN: 1590592654
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Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach
Decomposition Methodology For Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining: Theory And Applications (Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence)

2005 y.
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Description: Data Mining is the science and technology of exploring data in order to discover previously unknown patterns. It is a part of the overall process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). The accessibility and abundance of information today makes data mining a matter of considerable importance and necessity. This book provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on advanced decomposition methods in general data mining tasks and for classification tasks in particular. The book presents a complete methodology for decomposing classification problems into smaller and more manageable sub-problems that are solvable by using existing tools. The various elements are then joined together to solve the initial problem. The benefits of decomposition methodology in data mining include: increased performance (classification accuracy), conceptual simplification of the problem, enhanced feasibility for huge databases, clearer and more comprehensible results, reduced runtime by solving… [detailed...]

ISBN: 9812560793
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