daniels, porteny and urrutia et al make a good case for the idea that that public decisions ought to be made not only “in the light of” evidence but also “on the basis of” budget impact, financial protection and equity. health technology assessment (hta) should, they say, be accordingly expanded to consider matters additional to safety and cost-effectiveness. they also complain that most hta re...

Reliable Multicasting in Ad Hoc Networks by Venkatesh Rajendran This thesis presents the Reliable, Adaptive, Congestion controlled multicasT protocol, or ReACT, designed to provide reliable and timely multicast delivery in a wide range of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) scenarios. ReACT combines source-based congestionand error control with receiver-initiated localized recovery. It demonstrates t...

the hub location decision is a long term investment and any changes in it take considerable time and money. in real situations, some parameters are uncertain hence, deterministic models cannot be more efficient. the ability of two-stage stochastic programming is to make a long-term decision by considering effects of it in short term decisions simultaneously. in the two-stage stochastic programm...

Flow shop sequencing problem is included in NP-hard problems and a number of heuristic methods have been developed to solve it. Most of these methods are offered for the crisp processing time. However fuzzy algorithm is appropriate for the problems with fuzzy processing time. This paper presents a method in which an algorithm is used to minimize make span of flow shop with fuzzy processing time...

Competitive and skilled management accountants are needed for the companies' survival in an ever-changing world and also a world without borders. Therefore, the problem is what components in a decision maker brings out the best decision. Since learning is continuous and continuous learning is essential in an ever changing world in order for the company to survive. The aim of this study is to de...

this article deals with the relationship existing between the emotional aspect and decision-making processes. more specifically, it examines the links between emotional intelligence, decision biases and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms. the primary purposes of this article are to: consider emotional intelligence like new research ideas that make important contributions to society; off...

Bilevel decision addresses the problem in which two levels of decision makers, each tries to optimize their individual objectives under certain constraints, and to act and react in an uncooperative and sequential manner. Given the difficulty of formulating a bilevel decision problem by mathematical functions, a rule-sets based bilevel decision model was proposed. This paper presents an algorith...

We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...