In dynamic environments, optimal deliberation in the decision-theoretic sense is impossible. Instead, it is sometimes necessary to trade potential decision quality for decision timeliness. One approach to achieving this trade-o is to endow intelligent agents with meta-level strategies that provide them guidance about when to reason| and what to reason about|and when to act instead. In this pape...

Recent studies indicate that dual tasks can be performed with a serial or parallel strategy and that the parallel strategy is preferred even if this implies performance costs. The present study investigates the hypothesis that parallel processing is favored because it requires less mental effort compared to serial processing. A serial or parallel processing strategy was induced in a sample of 2...

BACKGROUND The hemoglobin threshold for transfusion of red blood cells in patients with acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is controversial. We compared the efficacy and safety of a restrictive transfusion strategy with those of a liberal transfusion strategy. METHODS OBJECTIVE The objective was to prove that the restrictive threshold for red blood cell transfusion in patients with acute...

The main objective of the paper is to minimize use conventional generators and optimize fuel cost. To generators, solar thermal power plant (STPP) proposed in this paper. An approach for optimal location STPP also cost, firstly unit commitment (UC) applied generators. Then genetic algorithm (GA) used cost committed suggested method tested on an IEEE 14 bus test system 24 hr. schedule with varia...

This study aims to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of fraud prevention factors on village fund management. It also examines role organizational justice as a moderating variable through an associative method. The population used consists 120 respondents from Village Government Apparatus in Muaragembong District, Bekasi Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia. Furthermore, data were col...

Commitment is a necessary prerequisite for gaining sustainable competitive advantage. By the way of commitment a firm is able to establish mobility barriers for capital bound in specific assets and to protect thereby supernormal profits against competition by entry barriers. The main underlying mechanism creating commitment is the irreversibility of decisions. Irreversibility not only can give ...

Abstract This study investigates the relation of further training and employees’ affective commitment by disentangling relevance a firm’s general support for individual’s actual participation. Using linked employer-employee data, we consider both perspective control several HR instruments additionally to usual demographics job characteristics. We also distinguish between subgroups employees reg...