scholarly journals Investment, Hysteresis, and Layers of Techniques: A Case Study of Agricultural Manufacturing Machinery in Multan Division

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1117-1132
Author(s):  
Toseef Azid ◽  
Muhammad Akbar Noor
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Face

The behaviour of firms is still a little understood matter. Why one firm or industry is investing more than the other or what makes a firm enter or exit from the market, what are the psychological factors that go to make a choice of this kind are questions that have not been answered satisfactorily. Concepts like irreversibility, uncertainty, investment, and the value of waiting are very much there in the literature, e.g., McDonald and Siegel (1985, 1986); Nickell (1974); Schmalensee (1972); Hartman (1972); Henry (1974) and LAM (1989) and others. But the psychology of decision-making on the face of losses has not received much attention in the literature. That the Economic Hysteresis1 and Layers of Techniques2, developed by Professor A. Dixit and Professor P. N. Mathur respectively tackle. The former is discussed by Pindyck (1988, 1991, 1992) and Dixit (1989, 1989a, 1991, 1992); while Mathur (1977, 1989, 1990); Law and Azid (1993); Azid and Ghosh (1998) and Rashid (1989,1989a) have discussed the latter.

scholarly journals Principled Decision-Making Workflow with Hierarchical Bayesian Models of High-Throughput Dose-Response Measurements

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 727
Author(s):  
Eric J. Ma ◽  
Arkadij Kummer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Noisy Data ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian Models ◽  
Melting Temperatures ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Point Data

We present a case study applying hierarchical Bayesian estimation on high-throughput protein melting-point data measured across the tree of life. We show that the model is able to impute reasonable melting temperatures even in the face of unreasonably noisy data. Additionally, we demonstrate how to use the variance in melting-temperature posterior-distribution estimates to enable principled decision-making in common high-throughput measurement tasks, and contrast the decision-making workflow against simple maximum-likelihood curve-fitting. We conclude with a discussion of the relative merits of each workflow.

Research methods as bridging devices: path and context mapping in governance

2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Van Assche ◽  
Raoul Beunen ◽  
Monica Gruezmacher ◽  
Martijn Duineveld ◽  
Leith Deacon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Continuous Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Shifting Balance ◽  
Initial Concept

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential, both analytically and practically, of understanding research methods as bridging devices. Methods can bridge theory and empirics, but it is argued that they can perform several bridging functions: between theory and praxis, between analysis and strategy and between past and future. The focus is on those forms of bridging relevant for understanding and effectuating change in governance, at community level and at the scale of organizations. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a perspective on methods as bridging devices. It uses the newly minted methods of governance path and context mapping as a case study. These methods conceptually derive from evolutionary governance theory (EGT) and were developed and tested in Canadian empirical research. The case helps to develop insight in features, forms and limitations of methods as bridging devices in governance research and practice. The authors then use the case to further develop the initial concept of bridging more generally, emphasizing the shifting balance between methods as bridging and creating boundaries. Findings Both the case study and the theoretical analysis underline the necessary imperfection of any method as bridging device. The authors affirm the potential of method to perform different bridging functions at the same time, while revealing clear tradeoffs in each role. Tradeoffs occur with adapted versions of the method producing new strengths and weaknesses in new contexts. In each of the forms of bridging involved neither side can be reduced to the other, so a gap always remains. It is demonstrated that the practice of bridging through method in governance is greatly helped when methods are flexibly deployed in ongoing processes of bricolage, nesting and modification. Governance enables the continuous production of new framing devices and other methods. Originality/value The idea of methods as bridging devices is new, and can assist the development of a broader understanding of the various forms and functions of research methods. Moreover, it helps to discern roles of research methods in the functioning of governance. The context of governance helps to recognize the multi-functionality of research methods, and their transformation in a context of pressured decision-making. Moreover, this approach contributes to the understanding of governance as adumbrated by EGT.

scholarly journals Teaching Complexity: The Limits of Evidence and the ‘Prospective’ Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Amanda Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Master Of Public Policy ◽  
Lesson Drawing

Policy practitioner–students in a Master of Public Policy programme in New Zealand describe many problems and processes in their work environments as ‘complex’. Yet, they hold firmly to a belief in the merits of ‘evidence’ to guide their advice and decision making in the face of that complexity. This article examines the aims and pedagogy of a two-course sequence designed to help students replace over-reliance on analysing existing evidence with understanding of the ways complexity concepts can aid in estimating possible outcomes of policy interventions. Starting with identifying evidence challenges, students learn how to compare a status quo situation and a prospective case of that status quo in which a new policy has been implemented. This method draws on existing scholarship in lesson-drawing for policy applications. Students are eased into an appreciation of a variety of complexity frameworks and concepts by looking at a case about which there is, strictly speaking, no evidence. 

Father as the primary guardian: based on a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 603 (8) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Magorzata Sitarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
General Concept ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Parental Alienation ◽  
Guardianship Law

The study deals with the general concept of paternity. It analyses the functioning of men as primary parents from the legal, philosophical, psychological, and social perspective. The paper presents the personal and educational competences of fathers who have been authorised by court decisions to act as the primary parent. Given the diversity of legal, psychological and social circumstances of fathers who seek to act as direct carers for their children, the competences to play the role of a primary parent are analysed based on a case study. Based on an analysis of case studies, it has been demonstrated that not every case of direct care results in alienation of the other parent and, consequently, disruption of the bond with the child. The study emphasizes that parental alienation does not stem from faulty decision-making or enforcement of the guardianship law, but rather from incorrect parental attitudes, lack of good will, emotional and social immaturity, and insufficient parenting competences.

scholarly journals Principled decision-making workflow with hierarchical Bayesian models of high throughput dose-response measurements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Ma ◽  
Arkadij Kummer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Noisy Data ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian Models ◽  
Melting Temperatures ◽  
Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Point Data

We present a case study applying hierarchical Bayesian estimation on high throughput protein melting point data measured across the tree of life. We show that the model is able to impute reasonable melting temperatures even in the face of unreasonably noisy data. Additionally, we demonstrate how to use the variance in melting temperature posterior distribution estimates to enable principled decision-making in common high throughput measurement tasks, and contrast the decision-making workflow against simple maximum-likelihood curve fitting. We conclude with a discussion of the relative merits of each workflow.

Case Study: Needs-Based Technology Assessment and Essential National Health Research: Experience in the Philippines

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-699
Author(s):  
Tessa L. Tan-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Health ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Research ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
The Difference

AbstractEssential national health research (ENHR) ensures that health research will be undertaken in priority areas defined by the people and will be used in decision making. Needs-based technology assessment (NBTA) is anchored on the ENHR philosophy. Two case studies are presented, one illustrating a successful application of NBTA and the other a failed approach. Reasons for the difference in success are examined.

How Immigrant Parents and Local Parents Were Involved in Children's Education in Macau

2021 ◽  
pp. 105678792110472
Author(s):  
Shun W. Ng ◽  
Ka W. Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
At Home

The objective of this case study is to analyze how two groups of parents, a group who have newly arrived in Macau from Mainland China and the other who have resided in Macau for more than three decades, interact with the class teachers at the levels of “two-way communication,” “supervision of children at home,” and “participating in decision making” in a secondary school. The findings will redound to the benefits of school leaders, teachers, and indirectly the parents in a sense that looking closely at the ethnic and cultural differences between parents can promote effective cooperation between parents and teachers.

Constitutional Dialogues

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-161
Author(s):  
Alec Stone Sweet ◽  
Jud Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
The Face

Apex courts face a fundamental problem: they cannot succeed in building systematic effectiveness in the face of regular opposition from the other branches of government, but they must sometimes invalidate the acts of those institutions to make rights effective. Chapter 5 considers how a court can build effectiveness while inducing inter-branch cooperation. A key is proportionality, which provides an infrastructure for the construction of dialogic jurisprudence. Constitutional courts delineate “zones of proportionality” within which policymakers enjoy meaningful policy discretion, albeit within guidelines set by the court. The chapter considers how rights-based, constitutional dialogues play out in three contexts, with respect: to legislating, making and enforcement of administrative law, and in the adjudication of private law disputes. These dialogues not only serve to secure other institutions’ acquiescence to the court’s jurisprudence, but drive proportionality reasoning into their decision-making routines, and hence into the legal domains over which they preside.

scholarly journals The other side of “getting by”: A case study of interpreting provision decision-making and consequences for patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1483096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Abbato ◽  
Jennifer Ryan ◽  
Chris Skelly ◽  
Phillip Good ◽  
Rahman Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Other

The Politics of Pronunciation

AJS Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-368
Author(s):  
Isaac B. Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Writing ◽  
The Face ◽  
Practical Question

World Jewry is divisible into two major groups of tradition based on geographic and historical considerations: Eastern or Sephardi and Western or Ashkenazi. They differ in their rites of prayer, customs, and also in many points of Jewish law. Moreover, their pronunciation of Hebrew in the synagogue differs as well. This situation leads to a practical question: May one elect to change his pronunciation of Hebrew from one tradition to the other? More to the point, as we shall see, may one change from the Ashkenazi (Western) to the Sephardi (Eastern)? On the face of it, this is strictly a matter of halakhah (Jewish law). But we will argue that the number of responsa written in the last seventy years that address this question and the highly charged attitudes expressed or implied in them reveal much more than law alone. Responsa in general, we will claim, should be examined through the lenses of the social sciences because they stand at the convergence of sociology and halakhic decision making. In the particular question before us, accent has become a nodal point between religion, legal writing, and sociolinguistics.

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