economics has hit the mainstream in the last decade with popular books like freakonomics and the undercover economist reaching the masses. these authors have used their toolkits far beyond the narrow scope of money and finance and answered questions pertaining to anything from social policy to demographics to crime. their appeal has largely been their ability to explain that small underlying fo...

although the importance of patient participation in the design and evaluation of health programs and services is well-documented, there is scarcity of research with regard to patient association (pa) participation in health policy decision-making processes. to this end, the present study aimed to validate further a previously developed instrument as well as to investigate the degree of pa parti...

with regard to the importance of scientific decision-making in power plants prioritization to produce electrical energy (power) from renewable energies (purified), in this paper, research with specialists opinions with respond to questionnaires provided upon three efficient operational criterion in position of three presented power plant in country which used wind, solar water energies for prod...

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 skills on decision making ...

we analyze a sequential decision making process, in which at each stepthe decision is made in two stages. in the rst stage a partially optimalaction is chosen, which allows the decision maker to learn how to improveit under the new environment. we show how inertia (cost of changing)may lead the process to converge to a routine where no further changesare made. we illustrate our scheme with som...