Much of the critical discussion of prescriptive authority for psychologists has focused on the question of whether this is the right direction for the profession. The authors contend that discourse on prescriptive authority should progress to identification of the challenges that lie ahead for psychology as a prescribing profession, with the goal of anticipating and addressing those challenges ...

The Allais Paradox seems as fresh today as it was when first posed some 40 years ago. It has been discussed in the intervening decades and led to many suggestions for modifying, extending or abandoning standard subjective expected utility theory. It has also led to much discussion of the distinction between normative and descriptive models and their rôle in prescriptive decision support. It see...

This article reviews 322 representative contributions to the software process improvement (SPI) literature. The contributions are categorised according to a simple framework: whether their primary goal is prescriptive (to tell SPI professionals what to do), descriptive (to report actual instances of SPI programs in software organisations), or reflective (theoretically analytical). The field is ...

Prescriptive charts have emerged in prenatal care; nevertheless, their use remains very controversial and descriptive are still preferred many countries. This systematic review aimed to assessed the methodological quality of studies that compared prescriptive fetal growth other charts. We undertook a MEDLINE, Scopus, Cochrane Library Grey literature sources search for from 2014 June 1, 2021. Th...

Redressing the imbalance between community expectations and the capacity of the hospital system to meet them will require more than recommendations for prescriptive frameworks and practices.