Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach

Values in Health Policy – A Concept Analysis

Background Despite the significant role “values” play in decision-making no definition or attributes regarding the concept have been provided in health policy-making. This study aimed to clarify the defining attributes of a concept of value and its irrelevant structures in health policy-making. We anticipate our findings will help reduce the semantic ambiguities associated with the use of “valu...

The making of a ‘good deal’: dealing with conflicting and complementary values when getting the car repaired informally in Sweden

A model with policy network approach for entrepreneurship policy making

One policy making issue that needs to be addressed more effectively through an intergovernmental and participatory approach is entrepreneurship policy. Entrepreneurship is an area where interdependencies are very high, and the establishment of collaborative relationships such as networks is vital. Therefore, a network approach in the entrepreneurial policy-making process, which leads to the inv...

Dealing with Missing Values in Data

Many existing industrial and research data sets contain missing values due to various reasons, such as manual data entry procedures, equipment errors and incorrect measurements. Problems associated with missing values are loss of efficiency, complications in handling and analyzing the data and bias resulting from differences between missing and complete data. The important factor for selection ...

A TENTATIVE NEW LOGICAL APPROACH FOR DEALING WITH KBS’e

Expert systems rules express relevant relations between their antecedents and their consequents. If the rules are manipulated by a logic (usually classical logic) in such a way that they give rise to new formulas with the form of rules (generated rules), these formulas may not express relevant relations between atecedents and consequents, and then become useless. We propose in this paper, a log...