sociologists have long been interested in the study of the relationships between members of families. also, in the last decades, sociologists and scholars in social and human sciences have shown an interest in the study of the effects of globalization on the micro and macro structures of societies. the aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between globalization and the division o...

BACKGROUND In Japan, there is no decision-making guide regarding long-term tube feeding that specifically targets individuals making decisions on behalf of cognitively impaired older persons (substitute decision makers). The objective of this study was to describe the development and evaluation of such a decision aid. METHODS In this before-and-after study, participants comprised substitute d...

the non-definite multi-attribute decision making problem is the further expansion of research to the traditional multi-attribute decision making problem. In the actual decision-making, because of policy-making question's complexity, decision-making information acquisition costs and other reasons, the decision information which the policy-maker can obtain are mostly ambiguous, so in the real lif...

Managers at tactical and operational levels in many organizations frequently encounter similar decision problems. Decisions taken by different managers for a given problem in an organization vary due to differences in their decision making styles and/or subjectivity. Discovering classes or categories of decision makers with similar decision making styles can contribute towards organizational le...

In Deutsche Bank Research – the independent think tank of Deutsche Bank Group – a group of analysts is delivering foresight for the company's decision-makers, the clients of Deutsche Bank Group, and the interested public. Since a bank's business is assessing, transforming and taking on risk, one of the main tasks of Deutsche Bank Research ́s Macro Trends team is to quantitatively and qualitative...