An effectiveness measure for comparing alternative organizational structures is derived and then applied to the evaluation of two three-person organizations. The modeling and analysis of the organizations is carried out using an information theoretic framework in which decisionmakers are described by a two-stage model consisting of a situation assessment and a response selection stage. The tota...

The purpose of this study was to apply the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to assist decision-making when planning animal health programmes, by assigning priorities to issues of concern to producers in Chile's main goat production region. This process allows a multi-criteria approach to problems, by analysing and ranking them in a hierarchical structure. Industry experts have highlighted the f...

Problems of refusal of care, among the most common ethical dilemmas in the emergency department, are also often the most difficult to resolve, pitting 2 conflicting duties, that of helping patients and that of respecting their autonomy, against each other. Using a case presentation as a backdrop, this article offers a practical approach to patients who refuse treatment, including assessment of ...

The title of this paper comes from an incident that occurred while I was participating in morning rounds on the pediatric and surgical intensive care unit of a large, midwest tertiary care center. The patient under discussion was an eight-week-old girl who had been born without kidneys, and who had been cared for on the unit for seven weeks. In the previous week, the baby's condition had gone s...

A major factor that contributes to the high rates of medical error in the treatment of patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases is the complexity of the tasks that physicians must complete. SimCare is a model of the clinical care setting for patients with type 2 diabetes. The model was designed to support investigation of physician cognition and decisionmaking activity. SimCare is dyna...

A theorem characterizing fractional Brownian motion by Index Terms -Wavelet transform, fractional Brownian motion.the covariance structure of its wavelet transform is established.

The oil-and-gas industry is known to be part of the most safety-critical domains. Safety culture has prompted such companies implement new systems support decision-making. In this paper, we explore use digital twins situation awareness as a crucial real-time decisionmaking processes. Therefore, paper presents requirements for development an eight components twin. Human-centered approach contrib...

We examine whether performance is higher in firms that emphasize decisionmaking based on data and business analytics (which we term a data-driven decisionmaking approach or DDD). Using detailed survey data on the business practices and information technology investments of 179 large publicly traded firms, we find that firms that adopt DDD have output and productivity that is 5-6% higher than wh...