Workshop on STI Policy for SDGs and Gender Equality
Approaches to STI policy-making in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with an emphasis on open science and gender equality. It covers the importance of STI in achieving SDGs, interrelationships between goals, building a robust STI system, and the STI policy cycle. Key elements incl
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Understanding Brain Development and Decision-Making Skills
Explore the fascinating realm of brain development and decision-making skills, focusing on how different brain regions activate during decision-making, the evolution of decision-making abilities from adolescence to adulthood, the importance of practicing decision-making skills, and the influence of
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Enhancing Ethical Decision-Making Process in Business Administration
Explore the steps to improve ethical decision-making in business administration through a process that brings clarity and assists decision-makers in finding viable solutions. The importance of ethics, good governance, and doing the right thing are highlighted, emphasizing the value of following a st
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Making Informed Decisions in Environmental Science
Values play a crucial role in environmental decision-making. Scientific research is essential in addressing environmental issues, but understanding values is necessary before research can begin. This article discusses how values impact environmental decision-making and introduces an environmental de
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Enhancing Career Decision Making Process
Explore the importance of good decision-making, types of decision makers, problems faced in decision making, readiness factors for career decisions, decision-making processes, and the CASVE cycle. Understand the significance of effective decision-making skills and how they impact our lives.
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Understanding Quantitative Decision Making in Biostatistics
Quantitative Decision Making (QDM) in biostatistics enables optimal design of development plans and studies, quantifies decision risks, and minimizes bias. It involves setting targets and evidence levels, anchoring outcomes against targets, and establishing evidence thresholds for positive and negat
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Understanding Policy Analysis Process in Health Administration
Policy analysis involves providing informed advice to clients on public policy decisions, including recommended courses of action based on identified issues and problem statements. This process entails defining the problem, exploring options, and making recommendations to address public policy chall
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Understanding Policy-Making Process for Health Improvement
Policy-making involves defining policy, recognizing its complex nature, identifying windows of opportunity, and framing health issues. The policy-making cycle includes stages like agenda setting, formulation, and implementation. Alignment of problems, policies, and politics is crucial for effective
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Effective Writing and Policy Briefs: Enhancing Impact in Policy-making
A policy brief is a compelling document designed to influence decision-makers by outlining policy alternatives and courses of action. Discover the value of policy briefs, effective characteristics, and strategies for agenda setting and policy formulation in this comprehensive module.
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Understanding Theories of the Policy Cycle in Policy Analysis
The policy cycle theory describes the evolution of policy issues from inception to evaluation, impacting scientific research and policy formulation. It outlines stages from the 1950s, influenced by Lasswell's seven-stage model, serving as a framework for organizing policy processes. Despite the line
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Understanding Public Policy-Making Process in Government
Explore the intricacies of public policy-making in government administration, focusing on the importance of providing equal access to basic services for all citizens. Delve into the nature of public policy, factors influencing policy-making, and the procedural aspects involved, including planning, o
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Understanding Decision Analysis in Work-related Scenarios
Decision analysis plays a crucial role in work-related decision-making processes, helping in identifying decision makers, exploring potential actions, evaluating outcomes, and considering various values involved in the decision. This module delves into the steps involved in decision analysis, provid
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Comprehensive Guide to Decision Making and Creative Thinking in Management
Explore the rational model of decision-making, ways individuals and groups make compromises, guidelines for effective decision-making and creative thinking, utilizing probability theory and decision trees, advantages of group decision-making, and strategies to overcome creativity barriers. Understan
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Mastering the Art of Decision Making: Problem Solving Strategies
Explore the essence of decision making and problem-solving through a comprehensive session outline. Understand the importance, conditions, styles, processes, and ethical considerations in decision making. Learn how identifying problems, finding solutions, and implementing them are crucial steps in t
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Understanding the Decision-Making Process
Decision-making is the process of selecting the best course of action from multiple alternatives to achieve desired outcomes. It involves identifying decisions, gathering relevant information, and following a step-by-step process to make informed choices. Principles and steps like identifying the de
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Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills Workshop Overview
Workshop on problem-solving and decision-making skills by Dr. Tarak Bahadur KC focuses on defining problems, recognizing reactions, explaining approaches, and identifying practices to improve decision-making ability. The content covers classification of decisions, decision-making processes, practice
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Introduction to Decision Theory in Business Environments
Decision theory plays a crucial role in business decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. This chapter explores the key characteristics of decision theory, including alternatives, states of nature, payoffs, degree of certainty, and decision criteria. It also introduces the concept of payoff
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Understanding Decision Trees in Machine Learning with AIMA and WEKA
Decision trees are an essential concept in machine learning, enabling efficient data classification. The provided content discusses decision trees in the context of the AIMA and WEKA libraries, showcasing how to build and train decision tree models using Python. Through a dataset from the UCI Machin
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Group Decision-Making: The Wisdom of Crowds and Stupidity of Herds
This presentation by Richard Zeckhauser of Harvard University delves into the importance of rational analysis and subjective probability in group decision-making processes. It emphasizes the need to focus on collective wisdom while avoiding biases that can affect group decisions. Key concepts covere
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Challenges in Policy Implementation and Lessons Learned
The content discusses the challenges faced in policy implementation, focusing on the gap between policy design and execution. It highlights key steps in policy-making, reasons for implementation failures, and factors influencing successful policy outcomes. Examples from Zambia's National Science and
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Understanding Costs and Revenues for Decision Making
This webinar covers various aspects of cost analysis and revenue calculation essential for decision-making, such as contribution margin, break-even analysis, target profit, contribution to sales ratio, margin of safety, and using break-even analysis in decision-making. Through examples like calculat
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Supported Decision Making as an Alternative to Guardianship
Explore the concept of Supported Decision Making as an alternative to guardianship, addressing the needs of individuals who may require assistance in decision-making. Understand the importance of listening to the incapacitated person, identifying their preferences, choices, and best interests. Learn
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Overview of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Policy Decision Making
This chapter delves into benefit-cost analysis as an essential tool in policy evaluation. It outlines the steps involved in conducting a benefit-cost analysis, emphasizes the significance of defining and quantifying policy problems, and highlights the importance of identifying the seriousness of soc
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Understanding Natural Justice in Legal Decision-Making
The concept of natural justice sets forth the minimum standards of fair decision-making, applicable to anyone making decisions impacting individual rights. It emphasizes unbiased decision-making, fair procedure, and giving parties a chance to present their case. The duty to act fairly requires decis
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Enhancing Government Decision-Making with Health Technology Assessment in South Africa
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) plays a crucial role in informing policy and funding decisions in South Africa, particularly in the context of the National Health Insurance (NHI) aiming for universal healthcare coverage. This multidisciplinary process assesses the value and impact of health techn
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Should Assisted Suicide be Legalized in China? Decision-making with Six Thinking Hats
The content discusses the decision-making process using the Six Thinking Hats method to determine whether assisted suicide should be legalized in China. Various tools and sessions are highlighted, guiding participants through considering different viewpoints, analyzing arguments, and making an infor
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Making Informed Policy Decisions: Lessons from Randomized Controlled Trials
Policy makers face challenges in decision-making without complete evidence. Drawing on a Bayesian approach to evidence, combining different forms of evidence, and considering contextual factors can aid in designing effective policy interventions. Case studies like non-cash incentives for immunizatio
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Sequential Decision Analytics Framework Overview
This content discusses a unified framework for sequential decision analytics presented at Olin Business School, University of Washington. Topics include guidelines for choosing policies, policy function approximations, cost function approximations, value function approximations, and direct lookahead
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Managerial Decision-Making and Information Systems
Understand how computer technologies assist managers in decision-making. Learn about decision support systems and their types, influenced by the World Wide Web. Management is seen as a process to achieve organizational goals with resources. Productivity is crucial at both organizational and national
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The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 in the Criminal Justice Context
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 introduces key reforms such as the abolition of wards of court system for adults, a statutory functional test of capacity, new guiding principles, a three-tier framework for support, and tools for advance planning. It emphasizes functional assessment
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Implementing Group Decision-Making Tools with Voting Procedures at Toulouse E-Democracy Summer School
Decision-making in organizations is crucial, and group decision-making can lead to conflicts due to differing views. Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) are essential for facilitating decision-making processes. The Toulouse E-Democracy Summer School discusses the implementation of voting tools in
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Exploring Decision Models in Neural Networks: Population Dynamics, Perceptual Decision Making, and Theory
Dive into the world of decision models in neural networks with a focus on population dynamics and competition, perceptual decision making with V5/MT involvement, and the theory of decision dynamics including shared inhibition and effective 2-dim models.
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Facilitating an Intellectual Property Ecosystem for Youth Entrepreneurship Growth
In order to facilitate the establishment of an intellectual property ecosystem for the growth of youth entrepreneurship and start-ups, policy makers can take various interventions including revisiting the IP ecosystem, the need for evidence-based decision making, development of startups policies and
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Theories and Strategies for Effective Policy Change
Explore the intricacies of strategic planning, outcome mapping, change theories, policy windows, and more in the realm of policy entrepreneurship and advocacy. Learn about key concepts such as large leaps theory, policy streams theory, and how think tanks can influence policy decision-making process
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Enhancing Decision Making with Institutional Research Data Workshop at IUPUI
The journey of Institutional Research and Decision Support at IUPUI is highlighted, emphasizing the vision to provide timely and accurate information to support decision-making in higher education. The innovative approaches, activities, and key practices to facilitate effective decision-making throu
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Decision Analysis: Problem Formulation, Decision Making, and Risk Analysis
Decision analysis involves problem formulation, decision making with and without probabilities, risk analysis, and sensitivity analysis. It includes defining decision alternatives, states of nature, and payoffs, creating payoff tables, decision trees, and using different decision-making criteria. Wi
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Utilizing Six Thinking Hats for Enhanced Decision Making and Problem Solving
Exploring the concept of Lateral Thinking through the Six Thinking Hats technique, this article delves into how this approach by Edward de Bono can revolutionize decision-making processes. By understanding the objectives and roles of each colored hat - Blue, Red, Yellow, Black, Green, and White - in
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Morality in UK Drug Policy: Policy Constellations Analysis
Morality plays a significant role in shaping drug policy in the UK, as revealed by the research conducted by Professor Alex Stevens at the University of Kent. The study investigates the moral commitments underlying different policy positions in UK drug policy debates, highlighting five ethico-politi
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Simplifying Decision-Making with Yes/No Flowchart Template
The Yes/No flowchart template in PowerPoint simplifies complex decision-making by breaking it down into binary choices, making it ideal for training sessions or meetings requiring clear decision paths. Its step-by-step layout visualizes consequences, aiding quicker and informed decision-making. The
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Industrial Policy: The Old and The New - Insights by Dani Rodrik
Industrial policy, as presented by Dani Rodrik in May 2019, emphasizes the importance of empirical work, the differences between old and new policies, and the targets industrial policy should focus on. The theoretical arguments for industrial policy highlight market imperfections, learning spillover
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