FEASIBILITY FOUR WAYS

Four Ways to Measure Culture

Four ways we approach ethics.

Most people use four different approaches when making ethical decisions. Some people use one approach predominantly, while others vary their approaches according to the circumstances. In either case, the approaches usually are chosen unconsciously. A main source of conflict in decision making occurs when two parties argue or negotiate their positions from different moral approaches, for these d...

Split prostate cancer four ways, Willett says.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 98, No. 14, July 19, 2006 NEWS 959 infl ammation is more important in cancers that occur later in a man’s life. “ For better or worse, aging is like a slow castration process. Our endogenous hormones, particularly our anabolic hormones like testosterone and insulin-like growth factor, decline, ” said Willett, while presenting the hypothesis at the ...

Impulsivity: four ways five factors are not basic to addiction.

Several impulsivity-related models have been applied to understanding the vulnerability to addiction. While there is a growing consensus that impulsivity is multifaceted, debate continues as to the precise number of facets and, more critically, which are most relevant to explaining the addiction-risk profile. In many ways, the current debate mirrors that which took place in the personality lite...

When Four Distinct Ways to Measure Utility Are the Same

Assuming that binary rankand sign-dependent utility holds for gambles and that riskless choice utility can be constructed using the binary operation of joint receipt of consequences, there are four distinct measures of utility over gains: the two, one from gambles and the other from joint receipt, that arise by working with the trade-offs of just gains and the two that arise by working with the...