The objectives of flood control, power generation, water supply and ecology for reservoir operation are neither completely coordinated nor opposed, its optimal decision-making is very complicated. This study proposed a method multi-objective optimization multi-attribute decision making (MODRO). correlation analysis was used to analyze the competitive relationship among extracted objectives, mod...

The European Long-range Research Initiative (LRI) was launched in 2000. The objective of this programme is to provide increased understanding of the potential impact of chemicals on human health and the environment. The aim has been to reduce uncertainty associated with innovation, and to promote evidence-based decision making. In pursuing these objectives the LRI has commissioned independent s...

The e-co-housing project aims to develop and test tools supporting a participatory process from the design brief to the real operation of a housing project (e.g. neighbourhood construction, apartment building renovation). The partners are IFIB (Germany), SINTEF (Norway), DHV (The Netherlands), GTM (France) and ARMINES/ENSMP (France, coordinator). Methods for innovative property development (e.g...

Methods to measure the burden of disease (BOD) on populations have been employed for decades, but have only received increasing attention in the past twenty years. At the same time, a number of concerns have also been raised, especially with the use of summary measures of population health. Seven BOD studies were funded by the Global Forum for Health Research (Global Forum) to explore the appli...

Our paper seeks to assess the decision to adopt organic farming practices. More specifically, we use Duration Analysis (DA) to determine why farmers adopt organic farming and the timing of adoption. We extend previous studies by including farmers’ objectives, risk preferences and agricultural policies as covariates in the DA model. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used as a multi-crite...

The authors examine the economic implications of animal diseases and control programmes at the national level, including the role of government in animal health, the effect of regulations and the use of cost-benefit analysis. Special attention is paid to the role of economic analysis in government decision-making processes. Economics provides a framework for gathering information and for the pr...

INTRODUCTION Tobacco control researchers have recently become more interested in systems science methods and mathematical modelling techniques as a means to understand how complex inter-relationships among various factors translate into population-level summaries of tobacco use prevalence and its associated medical and social costs. However, there is currently no resource that provides an overv...

The objectives of this article are to promote a better understanding of a group of biases that influence therapeutic decision making by physicians/dermatologists and to raise the awareness that these biases contribute to a research-practice gap that has an impact on physicians and treatment solutions. The literature included a wide range of peer-reviewed articles dealing with biases in decision...

BACKGROUND Scientific evidence on how to manage multimorbidity is limited, but GPs have extensive practical experience with multimorbidity management. AIM To explore GPs' considerations and main objectives in the management of multimorbidity and to explore factors influencing their management of multimorbidity. DESIGN AND SETTING Focus group study of Dutch GPs; with heterogeneity in charac...