The paper deals with the issue of decisional efficiency at European level, given EU’s large bureaucracy and complex decision-making system. The functionality of institutions seems to be assured, to large extent, by the development of a parallel system of informal (or semi-formal) rules and procedures for negotiation and decision-making, which complements and sometimes replaces the formal proced...

power is an important social variable in the study of the social structure, institutions, groupsand individuals considered to be a conventional relationship and family is no exception. themain purpose of this article to review the decision making power of women in the family iswhite and its influencing factors. this research is a quantitative survey, which was conductedin 2011 in the town of pr...

Institutions for Civic Technoscience: How Critical Making is Transforming Environmental Research Sara Ann Wylie a , Kirk Jalbert b , Shannon Dosemagen c & Matt Ratto d a Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute , Northeastern University , Boston , Massachusetts , USA b Department of Science and Technology Studies , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy , New York , USA c Pub...

Current approaches examining the effect of institutions on policy processes have difficulty in explaining the results of the legislative process of codecision between European Parliament and Council within the European Union. The formal Treaty changes which gave rise to codecision have in turn given rise to a plethora of informal institutions, in a process which is difficult to understand using...

Science policy makers, university administrators, funding agencies, and prospective students all rely on many factors when deciding which academic institutions to become involved with. Organizations have stepped in to provide information to support such decision makers. From US News and World Report rankings1 to the recently released National Research Council report on academic institutions [4]...

PURPOSE Institutional conflicts of interest (ICOIs) occur when the institution or leaders with authority to act on behalf of the institution have conflicts of interest (COIs) that may threaten the objectivity, integrity, or trustworthiness of research because they could impact institutional decision making. The purpose of this study was to gather and analyze information about the ICOI policies ...

This paper presents the methodology for strategic decision making in higher education (HE). The methodology is structured as a cycle of strategic decision making with four phases, and it is focused on institutional and national perspective, i.e. on decision making that takes place at institutions of HE and relevant national authorities, in case HEIs are public. Case study of e-learning implemen...

While online education keeps expanding, web-based institutions face high dropout rate, pushing costs up and making a negative social impact. Based on the analysis of existing research, personal characteristics and learning behavior were selected as input variables to train a dropout prediction model using neural network algorithm. The outcomes of prediction model were analyzed by calculating th...