Thinking and decision making, bacterial style: Bacterial Neural Networks, Obernai, France, 7th-12th June 2002

The physics of bacterial decision making

The choice that bacteria make between sporulation and competence when subjected to stress provides a prototypical example of collective cell fate determination that is stochastic on the individual cell level, yet predictable (deterministic) on the population level. This collective decision is performed by an elaborated gene network. Considerable effort has been devoted to simplify its complexit...

The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking Skills on the Decision Making Style of Nursing Managers

Background: One of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. This service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skill...

Collective decision making in bacterial viruses.

For many bacterial viruses, the choice of whether to kill host cells or enter a latent state depends on the multiplicity of coinfection. Here, we present a mathematical theory of how bacterial viruses can make collective decisions concerning the fate of infected cells. We base our theory on mechanistic models of gene regulatory dynamics. Unlike most previous work, we treat the copy number of vi...

The Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Managers' Decision Making Style

If you consider different activities of managers, it can be seen clearly that decision making is the essence of all management activities. Decision making is counted as integral components of management and is manifested somehow in any management duty. On the other hand, organizational culture is a pattern from fundamental default that a special group created it in the solution of problems to c...

Statistical Decision Making and Neural Networks