First-time pregnant women’s experience of the decision-making process related to completing or terminating pregnancy - a phenomenological study

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Kjelsvik ◽  
Eva Gjengedal
1970 ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Hassan Hammoud

In collaboration with the United Nations Development Program, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs has completed a survey ' that provides for the first time in 65 years a comprehensive profile of the population in post-war Lebanon. One of its several objectives was to identify the demographic, educational, social, and occupational characteristics of Lebanese society. If properly considered, such information could play a major role in the decision-making process over several public policies in the country. The data of the survey are presented in 187 statistical tables . I will analyse selected tables related to the status and characteristics of women and the family.


2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Maruyama

Abstract In 2008 the Ainu were officially recognized as an indigenous people by the Japanese Government. The recognition arose from the 1997 court’s decision on the Nibutani Dam case which concluded, for the first time in Japanese history, that the Ainu people have the right to enjoy their own culture and that they fit the definition of indigenous people. The plaintiffs were Ainu landowners from the Nibutani Community who claimed the revocation of the expropriation decision. However, the Nibutani Dam was completed before the court’s decision, with the court acknowledging the completion as fait accompli on the grounds that the revocation of the expropriation decision would not be in the public’s interest. This article reveals the flawed legal system in the decision making process for public works as well as a brief history and some cultural background of the Ainu through those plaintiffs’ struggle for justice. Further, the illegitimacy of the Nibutani Dam project is discussed in light of publicness based on the complaint of those plaintiffs, and lastly, publicness of public works is explored in the context of studies on publicness in Japan.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Abad Andrade

How do constitutional courts decide and how do institutional factors affect decision-making processes and their outcomes? This book answers these questions—in a way that is relevant for law and politics—in two steps. In the first place, it develops possible theoretical models of constitutional courts’ decision-making. Thereafter, they are applied to the politically significant Turkish Constitutional Court (1962–2012) for the first time. Using interviews with former judges and analyses of court rulings, the author proposes that ‘unfavourable coupling’ takes place at the Turkish Constitutional Court in the form of a decision-making logic that follows majority principles combined with a process that requires a willingness to compromise and seek consensus for the court to function appropriately. This coupling affects the court’s decision-making process, its case law and, indirectly, even its ability to gain institutional autonomy and authority.


2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 2501-2519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Yazdani ◽  
Pascale Zarate ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Zenonas Turskis

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantage of a combinatory methodology presented in this study. The paper suggests that the comparison with results of previously developed methods is in high agreement.Design/methodology/approachThis paper introduces a combined compromise decision-making algorithm with the aid of some aggregation strategies. The authors have considered a distance measure, which originates from grey relational coefficient and targets to enhance the flexibility of the results. Hence, the weight of the alternatives is placed in the decision-making process with three equations. In the final stage, an aggregated multiplication rule is employed to release the ranking of the alternatives and end the decision process.FindingsThe authors described a real case of choosing logistics and transportation companies in France from a supply chain project. Some comparisons such as sensitivity analysis approach and comparing to other studies and methods provided to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm.Originality/valueThe algorithm has a unique structure among MCDM methods which is presented for the first time in this paper.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Erin Apriani ◽  
Yaktiworo Indriani ◽  
Rabiatul Adawiyah

The study aims to know the decision making, attitude, and satisfaction of consumers towards steam rice package at The Sambel Alu Sultan Agung (RMSASA) Restaurant. The attributes studied consisted of price, scent, taste, size, benefit, side dish variation, dish appearance, cleanliness, location, parking area, comfort and safety place. This research was conducted by survey method.  The respondents of this study consisted of 48 consumers who purchased liwet rice package for the first time. The research data was analyzed by description, Fishbein Multi-attribute Model, Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI,) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA).  The results showed that the consumer's decision-making process of purchasing steam rice package was influenced by consumers' desire to try liwet rice package besides their hunger.  Sources of information obtained by consumers were mostly from people stories.  Alternatives chosen by consumers when the liwet rice package ran out was switching to another menu. The calculation of attitude of consumers showed that consumers like the liwet rice package with multi-atribute value of 182.06.  The highest score of attitude was taste, followed by cleanliness, comfort and safety place.  The results of CSI analysis showed that consumers were satisfied with the liwet rice package with CSI value of 77.54.  Meanwhile, based on IPA analysis, the attributes laid in quadrant I were aroma and location; quadrant II were cleanliness, taste, comfort and safety place; quadrant III were parking areas, price, size, and benefit; and quadrant IV were menu variation and dish appearance. Key words: attitude, CSI, IPA, steam rice, the decision making


2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 339-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Guido Tapia Carpio ◽  
Marcus Vinicius Margueron

This paper intends to present a contribution to the development of techniques of decision-making in international projects of exploration and production of petroleum. A case study of the Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) was developed and applied to define priorities among ten offshore exploration investment opportunities around the world offered to a Brazilian petroleum multinational company, according to decision-makers' preferences. The MAUT model proposed shows for the first time a combination of operational, political and technological risks, resulting in a quite complete formulation to describe quantitatively the decision-making process. It is important to emphasize that this paper presents an unpublished model to evaluate political risks whose detailed analysis is currently of extreme importance for international investments in petroleum projects.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
OLEG VYACHESLAVOVICH LAVRICHENKO

<p>Effective control of innovative resources at the enterprise requires new and creative interaction mechanisms (active connect) between decision-makers, and enterprise-wide information systems. The essence of innovation self-organizing business forming technologies is revealed for the first time in the research work, which reveals the authoring theory of active connect basics. The article proves the maximum value of Choquet integral application demand by the decision-making process modeling for the disparity elimination in innovative resources distribution. The method proposed by the author has been tested at the enterprises of the Moscow Industrial Concern "Agat".</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1903) ◽  
pp. 20190720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn N. Geniole ◽  
Valentina Proietti ◽  
Brian M. Bird ◽  
Triana L. Ortiz ◽  
Pierre L. Bonin ◽  
...  

Like other animals, humans are sensitive to facial cues of threat. Recent evidence suggests that we use this information to dynamically calibrate competitive decision-making over resources, ceding more to high-threat individuals (who appear more willing/able to retaliate) and keeping more from low-threat individuals. Little is known, however, about the biological factors that support such threat assessment and decision-making systems. In a pre-registered, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over testosterone administration study ( n = 118 men), we show for the first time that testosterone reduces the effects of threat on decision-making: participants ceded more resources to high-threat (versus low-threat) individuals (replicating the ‘threat premium’), but this effect was blunted by testosterone, which selectively reduced the amount of resources ceded to those highest in threat. Thus, our findings suggest that testosterone influences competitive decision-making by recalibrating the integration of threat into the decision-making process.


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