Can Decision Making Processes Benefit from a User Friendly Land Use and Transport Interaction Model?

2006 ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guenter Emberger ◽  
Nikolaus Ibesich ◽  
Paul Pfaffenbichler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
User Friendly

scholarly journals The Multivariated Effect of City Cooperation in Land Use Planning and Decision-Making Processes: A European Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Carlos Loures ◽  
Rui Alexandre Castanho ◽  
José Manuel Naranjo Gómez ◽  
Ana Vulevic ◽  
José Cabezas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The added value of European collaboration to improve the uptake of best practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Maassen ◽  
C Sostongs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Intervention Selection ◽  
European Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract In 2019, members of the EuroHealthNet Partnership established the first Thematic Working Group on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programme Registers with the intention of becoming 'the competence engine for Programme Registers in Europe.' The group's objectives include to exchange experience, to initiate joint projects, to identify and further develop common topics relevant to Programme Registers, and to share findings in scientific papers and international conferences. Through such activities, the group builds the foundation for a more systematic and scientific European approach to translating evidence into practice and provides a forum for liaison and exchange between EU Member States, the European Commission, and international partners. Programme registers are only as relevant as they are influential in professionals' and policy makers' decision-making around intervention selection. Facilitating uptake of best practices requires an understanding of incentives, disincentives and decision-making processes, as well as how to make the programme registers more prominent and user-friendly. Outcomes from the 2020 Working Group meeting in Cologne will be presented, including case studies from across Europe, as well as recommendations to improve the uptake of best practices, tailored to portals at different stages of development.

Widen NomoGram for multinomial logistic regression: an application to staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 823-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Ardoino ◽  
Monica Lanzoni ◽  
Giuseppe Marano ◽  
Patrizia Boracchi ◽  
Elisabetta Sagrini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Liver Fibrosis ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Graphical Tool ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
User Friendly

The interpretation of regression models results can often benefit from the generation of nomograms, ‘user friendly’ graphical devices especially useful for assisting the decision-making processes. However, in the case of multinomial regression models, whenever categorical responses with more than two classes are involved, nomograms cannot be drawn in the conventional way. Such a difficulty in managing and interpreting the outcome could often result in a limitation of the use of multinomial regression in decision-making support. In the present paper, we illustrate the derivation of a non-conventional nomogram for multinomial regression models, intended to overcome this issue. Although it may appear less straightforward at first sight, the proposed methodology allows an easy interpretation of the results of multinomial regression models and makes them more accessible for clinicians and general practitioners too. Development of prediction model based on multinomial logistic regression and of the pertinent graphical tool is illustrated by means of an example involving the prediction of the extent of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients by routinely available markers.

scholarly journals The Precarious Absence of Disability Perspectives in Planning Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikiko Terashima ◽  
Kate Clark
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
English Language ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes

One in five people in the world are said to have some type of disability. Disability is not merely individuals’ compromised capability in navigating the built environment, but rather the ‘misfit’ of capabilities with how a given living environment is organized. Planning, therefore, has a crucial role to play in responding to the needs of this significant population through changes to the built and social environment. However, discussion on planning theories and practices with a focus on persons with disability (PWD) has been limited to more specific realms of ‘design,’ and precariously absent in broader planning research. This systematic literature review aims to inform potential directions for planning scholarship by exploring the current and historic planning research investigating the needs of PWD. We compiled relevant papers from five prominent English language planning journals, some of which are long-standing (<em>Town Planning Review</em>, 1910–, <em>Journal of the American Planning Association</em>, 1935–). A very limited number of papers (n = 36) on topics related to PWD of any type have been published in the five journals throughout their existence, with even fewer focusing on the population. The subareas of planning these papers addressed include housing, transportation, land use, policy, and urban design. Many papers called for participation by PWD in the planning and decision-making processes, and some recent papers advocated for the production of evidence related to costs of creating accessible infrastructure. A critical look on some disciplinary divides and enhanced roles of planning research would be beneficial.

scholarly journals Improving Representation of Decision Rules in LUCC-ABM: An Example with an Elicitation of Farmers’ Decision Making for Landscape Restoration in Central Malawi

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Nadia S. Djenontin ◽  
Leo C. Zulu ◽  
Arika Ligmann-Zielinska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Decision Rules ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Restoration Practices

Restoring interlocking forest-agricultural landscapes—forest-agricscapes—to sustainably supply ecosystem services for socio-ecological well-being is one of Malawi’s priorities. Engaging local farmers is crucial in implementing restoration schemes. While farmers’ land-use decisions shape land-use/cover and changes (LUCC) and ecological conditions, why and how they decide to embrace restoration activities is poorly understood and neglected in forest-agricscape restoration. We analyze the nature of farmers’ restoration decisions, both individually and collectively, in Central Malawi using a mixed-method analysis. We characterize, qualitatively and quantitatively, the underlying contextual rationales, motives, benefits, and incentives. Identified decision-making rules reflect diverse and nuanced goal frames of relative importance that are featured in various combinations. We categorize the decision-making rules as: problem-solving oriented, resource/material-constrained, benefits-oriented, incentive-based, peers/leaders-influenced, knowledge/skill-dependent, altruistic-oriented, rules/norms-constrained, economic capacity-dependent, awareness-dependent, and risk averse-oriented. We link them with the corresponding vegetation- and non-vegetation-based restoration practices to depict the overall decision-making processes. Findings advance the representation of farmers’ decision rules and behavioral responses in computational agent-based modeling (ABM), through the decomposition of empirical data. The approach used can inform other modeling works attempting to better capture social actors’ decision rules. Such LUCC-ABMs are valuable for exploring spatially explicit outcomes of restoration investments by modeling such decision-making processes and policy scenarios.

scholarly journals Investigating Decision Mechanisms of Statutory Stakeholders in Flood Risk Strategy Formation: A Computational Experiments Approach

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2716
Author(s):  
Ifigeneia Koutiva ◽  
Archontia Lykou ◽  
Chris Pantazis ◽  
Christos Makropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Strategy Formation ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Decision Mechanisms ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The City

Cities at risk of extreme hydro-meteorological events need to be prepared to decrease the extent of the impacts. However, sometimes, authorities only react to catastrophes failing to proactively prepare against extremes. This can be a result of both absent structural protection measures and problematic governance. While for the first, models exist that can simulate the effect, the effect of the latter is difficult to quantify. This work aims to explore the effects that typical authorities’ behaviour has on the decisions for preparing and protecting a city against floods. This behaviour includes how the different authorities decide, for example, on whether or not to cooperate with each other, build something, assign funding to something, etc. These decisions affect directly the preparedness against and the protection from flood events. For that matter, the institutional analysis framework was used to conceptualise the decision-making processes of authorities responsible for flood risk management. Based on this, an agent-based modelling tool has been created, enabling the exploration of the system’s behaviour under different scenarios. The tool is used as a case study of the responsible authorities for flood protection in the city of Rethymno on the island of Crete, Greece. The tool has a user-friendly interface enabling the end-users to explore the drivers of decision-making processes under different conditions.

Cognitive Processing of Miscommunication in Interactive Listening: An Evaluation of Listener Indecision and Cognitive Effort

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Roche ◽  
Arkady Zgonnikov ◽  
Laura M. Morett
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Mouse Tracking ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Computer Mouse Tracking ◽  
Listening Task ◽  
Processing Effort

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the social and cognitive underpinnings of miscommunication during an interactive listening task. Method An eye and computer mouse–tracking visual-world paradigm was used to investigate how a listener's cognitive effort (local and global) and decision-making processes were affected by a speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication. Results Experiments 1 and 2 found that an environmental cue that made a miscommunication more or less salient impacted listener language processing effort (eye-tracking). Experiment 2 also indicated that listeners may develop different processing heuristics dependent upon the speaker's use of ambiguity that led to a miscommunication, exerting a significant impact on cognition and decision making. We also found that perspective-taking effort and decision-making complexity metrics (computer mouse tracking) predict language processing effort, indicating that instances of miscommunication produced cognitive consequences of indecision, thinking, and cognitive pull. Conclusion Together, these results indicate that listeners behave both reciprocally and adaptively when miscommunications occur, but the way they respond is largely dependent upon the type of ambiguity and how often it is produced by the speaker.

“It's Not Humanly Possible to Do Everything”: Perspectives on Intervention Decision-Making Processes of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erinn Finke ◽  
Kathryn Drager ◽  
Elizabeth C. Serpentine
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individualized Education Program ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Communication Interventions

Purpose The purpose of this investigation was to understand the decision-making processes used by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) related to communication-based interventions. Method Qualitative interview methodology was used. Data were gathered through interviews. Each parent had a child with ASD who was at least four-years-old; lived with their child with ASD; had a child with ASD without functional speech for communication; and used at least two different communication interventions. Results Parents considered several sources of information for learning about interventions and provided various reasons to initiate and discontinue a communication intervention. Parents also discussed challenges introduced once opinions of the school individualized education program (IEP) team had to be considered. Conclusions Parents of children with ASD primarily use individual decision-making processes to select interventions. This discrepancy speaks to the need for parents and professionals to share a common “language” about interventions and the decision-making process.

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