todays, decision makers in the organization need toconstantly monitor changes in the environment and organization andmake necessary changes. therefore knowledge about the environmentand organization is necessary in decision making. knowledgemanagement is a key factor for competitive business environment andorganizations are investing heavily in creating centralized knowledgerepositories to impr...

ravel demand forecasting as widely practiced today deals inadequately with uncertainty. Methods currently used to forecast travel at the regional level simplify the world for which they forecast by relying heavily on point estimates. Forecasts are developed through the application of sequences of independent models in which the outputs from one become inputs to others. The current transportatio...

Michael S. was born in 1984 to unmarried teenage parents who were without health insurance. He was born with necrotic small bowel syndrome. Surgery at-birth determined that he would not be able to process food in the normal way. Hence, he would have to remain in an intensive care unit, fed via total parenteral nutrition (TPN). After six months the hospital administrator approached the attending...

Olsen, Christine S.; Shindler, Bruce A. 2007. Citizen-agency interactions in planning and decisionmaking after large wildfires. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNWGTR-715. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p. This report reviews the growing literature on the concept of agency-citizen interactions after large wildfires. Because large wildfires h...