results all the frames that were examined leaded to significant framing effects: when the asia disease problem was described in a positive frame, the participants preferred the conservative frame than the risky one, while if in a negative frame, the preference reversed (p < 0.01). if the drug effect was described as “of 100 patients taking this kind of medicine, 70 patients became better”, peop...

implementation of the risk management concepts into construction practice may enhance the performance of project by taking appropriate response actions against identified risks. this research proposes a multi-criteria group decision making approach for the evaluation of different alternative response scenarios. to take into account the uncertainties inherent in evaluation process, fuzzy logic i...

An overview of the use of the discrete Sugeno integral as either an aggregation tool or a utility function is presented in the qualitative framework of two decision paradigms: multi-criteria decision-making and decision-making under uncertainty. The parallelism between the representation theorems in both settings is stressed, even if a basic requirement like idempotency should be explicitely st...

the purpose of this research was to study organizational climate and faculty members&apos; participation in decision making in physical education faculty of tehran university. for this purpose, 30 faculty members of physical education faculty were selected with census method as the statistical sample. data were collected by two questionnaires: organizational climate (?=0.92) and participation i...

decentralisation has been described as an empty concept that lacks clarity. yet there is an enduring interest in the process of decentralisation within health systems and public services more generally. many claims about the benefits of decentralisation are not supported by evidence. it may be useful as an organising framework for analysis of health systems but in this context it lacks conceptu...