Leadership and Decision-Making Styles in Large-Scale Sporting Events

In this study, it was aimed to examine the reading habits levels and making the correct decision styles of basketball, handball, volleyball, and football coaches and referees in terms of some variables, the research was carried out with the general survey model, one of the quantitative research designs, the active coaches and referees of basketball, football, volleyball, and handball in İzmir, Denizli and Uşak provinces constituted the universe of the study, the sample of the study, on the other hand, consisted of 98 participants, 52 of whom were coaches and 46 were referees, determined by the simple random sampling method, one sample t-test at a 0.05 significance level was conducted to determine whether the sample represented the universe equally and homogeneously. Melbourne decision making scale I-II, and book reading habits scale were used to collect data in the study. Since the data are suitable for normal distribution, the t-test in comparing the pairwise means; parametric tests such as one-way ANOVA tests were used at 0.05 significance level in comparing the mean scores of more than two groups. In terms of education levels, it has been observed that female coaches and referees studying at faculties of sports sciences have higher levels of reading habit, love of reading, and being influenced by books. In addition, it was determined that individuals who trust and respect the decisions of their families have higher reading habits and correct decision-making styles and do not panic during the decision-making process.

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A Study on the Analytics Tool Used in Decision Making at Small and Medium Enterprise

International Journal of Business Analytics and Intelligence ◽

10.21863/ijbai/2015.3.1.003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Vivek N. Bhatt

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Business Intelligence ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Small Scale ◽

Know How ◽

Decision Making Styles ◽

Routine Basis ◽

Medium Enterprise ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Medium Enterprises

The article focuses on the study of prevailing decision making styles of Small Scale Industrial (SSI) Units. It presents data collected from 200 SSI units from Bhavnagar – a coastal city of Gujarat, India. The objective of writing the article is to depict heuristic decision patterns of small and medium enterprises, and the rare use of analytical or statistical business intelligence tools in decision making processes. It would be interesting to study the design of decision taken on routine basis in small units, poorly equipped with technology and technical know-how. The paper is descriptive in terms, and lays a lucid picture of present decision making processes.

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Applications of blockchain in healthcare (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.17777 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pranav C

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Large Scale ◽

Review Paper ◽

New Technology ◽

Personal Identification ◽

Healthcare Industry ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Paper Briefly ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Audit Trails

UNSTRUCTURED The word blockchain elicits thoughts of cryptocurrency much of the time, which does disservice to this disruptive new technology. Agreed, bitcoin launched in 2011 was the first large scale implementation of blockchain technology. Also, Bitcoin’s success has triggered the establishment of nearly 1000 new cryptocurrencies. This again lead to the delusion that the only application of blockchain technology is for the creation of cryptocurrency. However, the blockchain technology is capable of a lot more than just cryptocurrency creation and may support such things as transactions that require personal identification, peer review, elections and other types of democratic decision-making and audit trails. Blockchain exists with real world implementations beyond cryptocurrencies and these solutions deliver powerful benefits to healthcare organizations, bankers, retailers and consumers among others. One of the areas where blockchain technology can be used effectively is healthcare industry. Proper application of this technology in healthcare will not only save billions of money but also will contribute to the growth in research. This review paper briefly defines blockchain and deals in detail the applications of blockchain in various areas particularly in healthcare industry.

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A DECISION-MAKING MODEL FOR ROAD PROJECTS SELECTION FOCUSING ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROAD-RECOVERY PLAN AFTER A LARGE-SCALE DISASTER

Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser F6 (Safety Problem) ◽

10.2208/jscejsp.74.i_145 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 74 (2) ◽

pp. I_145-I_153

Author(s):

Jun SAKAMOTO

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Large Scale ◽

Recovery Plan ◽

Road Projects ◽

Decision Making Model

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Ban Ki-moon, 2007–2016

10.1093/oso/9780198748915.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Gowan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Decision Making ◽

Security Council ◽

Large Scale ◽

Central African Republic ◽

The United States ◽

Cautious Approach ◽

Peacekeeping Operations ◽

Council Decision ◽

The Face

During Ban Ki-moon’s tenure, the Security Council was shaken by P5 divisions over Kosovo, Georgia, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. Yet it also continued to mandate and sustain large-scale peacekeeping operations in Africa, placing major burdens on the UN Secretariat. The chapter will argue that Ban initially took a cautious approach to controversies with the Council, and earned a reputation for excessive passivity in the face of crisis and deference to the United States. The second half of the chapter suggests that Ban shifted to a more activist pressure as his tenure went on, pressing the Council to act in cases including Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, and Syria. The chapter will argue that Ban had only a marginal impact on Council decision-making, even though he made a creditable effort to speak truth to power over cases such as the Central African Republic (CAR), challenging Council members to live up to their responsibilities.

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BattleNet: Capturing Advantageous Battlefield in RTS Games (Student Abstract)

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.1609/aaai.v34i10.7197 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (10) ◽

pp. 13849-13850

Author(s):

Donghyeon Lee ◽

Man-Je Kim ◽

Chang Wook Ahn

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Decision Making ◽

Real Time ◽

Large Scale ◽

Outcome Predictor ◽

Short Term ◽

Rts Game

In a real-time strategy (RTS) game, StarCraft II, players need to know the consequences before making a decision in combat. We propose a combat outcome predictor which utilizes terrain information as well as squad information. For training the model, we generated a StarCraft II combat dataset by simulating diverse and large-scale combat situations. The overall accuracy of our model was 89.7%. Our predictor can be integrated into the artificial intelligence agent for RTS games as a short-term decision-making module.

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Risk Assessment and Decision-Making Based on Mean-CVaR-Entropy for Flood Control Operation of Large Scale Reservoirs

Water ◽

10.3390/w11040649 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 649 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Quansen Wang ◽

Jianzhong Zhou ◽

Kangdi Huang ◽

Ling Dai ◽

Gang Zha ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Decision Making ◽

Flood Control ◽

Large Scale ◽

Yangtze River Basin ◽

Mean Value ◽

Operation System ◽

Control Operation ◽

Flood Control Operation ◽

Reservoir Flood Control Operation

The risk inevitably exists in the process of flood control operation and decision-making of reservoir group, due to the hydrologic and hydraulic uncertain factors. In this study different stochastic simulation methods were applied to simulate these uncertainties in multi-reservoir flood control operation, and the risk caused by different uncertainties was evaluated from the mean value, extreme value and discrete degree of reservoir occupied storage capacity under uncertain conditions. In order to solve the conflict between risk assessment indexes and evaluate the comprehensive risk of different reservoirs in flood control operation schemes, the subjective weight and objective weight were used to construct the comprehensive risk assessment index, and the improved Mahalanobis distance TOPSIS method was used to select the optimal flood control operation scheme. The proposed method was applied to the flood control operation system in the mainstream and its tributaries of upper reaches of the Yangtze River basin, and 14 cascade reservoirs were selected as a case study. The results indicate that proposed method can evaluate the risk of multi-reservoir flood control operation from all perspectives and provide a new method for multi-criteria decision-making of reservoir flood control operation, and it breaks the limitation of the traditional risk analysis method which only evaluated by risk rate and cannot evaluate the risk of the multi-reservoir flood control operation system.

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