This article examines how people depart from optimality during multiple-goal pursuit. The authors operationalized optimality using dynamic programming, which is a mathematical model used to calculate expected value in multistage decisions. Drawing on prospect theory, they predicted that people are risk-averse when pursuing approach goals and are therefore more likely to prioritize the goal in t...

there are many problems that usually r & d centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. the researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks accordi...

The failure of critical infrastructures may be hazardous to the general population, the economy, even national security. Disruptions in one type of infrastructure often transverse to other dependent infrastructures and possibly even back to the infrastructurewhere the failure originated. Unlike previous studies, this paper proposes a newmethodwhich addresses this interdependency and the feedbac...

Currently, there are a lot of e-learning and collaborative platforms to support distance and collaborative learning, however, all of them were designed just like an application without considering the network infrastructure below. Under these circumstances when the platform is installed and runs in a campus, sometimes it has very poor performance. This paper presents a network and data link lay...

INTRODUCTION Customer orders in international supply networks can have different importance due to e.g. various order sizes or customer values (Pardoe, Stone 2005). Thus, customer orders should be assessed and treated individually in order to distinct between more or less profitable ones, as creating superior customer value is a key element for companies' suc-This concept explicitly focuses on ...

Despite continued public and private research investments in suicide prevention over the past several decades, there is no evidence of an overall decrease in suicide deaths or attempts. The Research Prioritization Task Force (RPTF) has developed the first U.S. research prioritization plan aimed at producing the knowledge necessary to substantially reduce the national suicide burden using multip...

Abstract This article examines the educational and teacher-related policies in Sahel region countries over past decade highlights main issues that hinder their ability to achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The discrepancy between current situation desired pace of change can be attributed lack prioritization teaching policies. proposes an alternative approach, emphasizing selection a...

INTRODUCTION Care coordination (CC) is an important fulcrum for pursuing a range of health care goals. Current research and policy analyses have focused on aggregated data rather than on understanding what happens within individual cases. At the case level, CC emerges as a complex network of communications among providers over time, crossing and recrossing many organizational boundaries. Micro-...