Third party service providers are locating logistic hub for operating their tasks. Finding a proper location helps them to have better performance in competitive environment. Multiple characteristics of proper location selection faces the decision maker to have a multi criteria decision making problem. Since the location decision is a long term planning, the robustness of the decision is gettin...

The National Institute on ConsumerDirected Long-Term Care defines consumer-direction as “a philosophy and orientation to the delivery of home and community-based services whereby informed consumers make choices about the services they receive. Consumerdirection ranges from the individual independently making all decisions and managing services directly, to an individual using a representative t...

The pre-decisional process of hypothesis generation is a ubiquitous cognitive faculty that we continually employ in an effort to understand our environment and thereby support appropriate judgments and decisions. Although we are beginning to understand the fundamental processes underlying hypothesis generation, little is known about how various temporal dynamics, inherent in real world generati...

In the current study we explore whether enriching the brain’s supply of glucose will improve the quality and speed of decision making. Prior research shows that glucose enrichment supports cognition and more recent research has shown it can improve decision making on some tasks. To test our hypothesis we used a standardized decision inventory and measured response times. The findings show that ...

The present paper revisits the ethical models of patient--physician relationship from the perspective of patient autonomy and values. It seems that the four traditional models of physician--patient relationship proposed by Emanuel & Emanuel in 1992 closely link patient values and patient autonomy. On the other hand, their reinterpretation provided by Agarwal & Murinson twenty years later emphas...

Our understanding of the role of tactical knowledge in baseball batting preparation is scarce, thereby limiting training guidelines. We examined the verbal reports of baseball players and nonplayers when told to view different edited video sequences of a half-inning of baseball competition under different task conditions: to prepare to bat (problem solve); recall as much information as possible...

Drawing upon an individual's needs, values, and expectations to guide decisionmaking and care giving is integral to long-term care (LTC). Articles in this issue demonstrate that client values and preferences can be elicited and used to guide decisionmaking about LTC. Service delivery and payment features can be shaped to support the patient/consumer, as well as to support and strengthen her or ...

Short-term production plans are the basis for operational mine production schedules. They concentrate on making long-term mine plans operationally feasible. Furthermore, some variables such as ore grade and tonnage govern mine production systems and cause uncertainty in the supply of raw materials to the mills. Due to the quality variation of material, short-term production optimization is an u...

The goal of this project is to develop and estimate realistic models of family decision making concerning long-term care of elderly parents. My theoretical and empirical models are rich in the sense that family members face a wide range of options including nursing home care, formal care provided in the elderly individual’s home (home health care), informal care, and no care. Despite the rich s...