Humans and other animals need to make inferences about their environment under constraints of limited time, knowledge, and computational capacities. However, most theories of inductive inferences model the human mind as a supercomputer like a Laplacean demon, equipped with unlimited time, knowledge, and computational capacities. In this article I review models of fast and frugal inference, that...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether employees with disabilities were initially assigned to jobs with work demands that matched their work capacities. PARTICIPANTS Forty-six employees with various physical, mental, sensory and multiple disabilities working in a sheltered workshop. METHODS Physical and psychosocial work capacities were assessed post-offer and pre-placement using the Ergo-Kit and M...

In this paper, we address a surgery capacity sharing problem with multiple hospitals, and formulate a model where hospitals who have their own capacity (the Operating Room) locally. Each hospital has several surgery teams facing random demands and seeks appropriate capacities to accommodate the demands, so that its total profit is maximized. We first study the allocation of available surgery ca...

BACKGROUND Primary health care (PHC)-based reforms have had different results in Latin America. Little attention has been paid to the enablers of collective action capacities required to produce a comprehensive PHC approach. OBJECTIVE To analyse the enablers of collective action capacities to transform health systems towards a comprehensive PHC approach in Latin American PHC-based reforms. ...

Irrigation management is based upon delivery of water to a crop in the correct amount and time, and the crop’s water need is determined by calculating evapotranspiration (ET) using weather data. In 1994, an ET-network was established in the Texas High Plains to manage irrigation on a regional scale. Though producers used the ET-network, by 2010 public access was discontinued. Why did producers ...

This paper develops a supply chain network game theory framework with multiple manufacturers/producers, with multiple manufacturing plants, who own distribution centers and distribute their products, which are distinguished by brands, to demand markets, while maximizing profits and competing noncooperatively. The manufacturers also may avail themselves of external distribution centers for stori...