Sentences with phrase «decision analysis from»

She received her Ph.D. in Water Quality Modeling and Decision Analysis from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in 2007.

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Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

Your hiring and firing decisions must come from your best judgment after a careful analysis of an employee or prospective employee's full character.

For example, Endicia uses package data and predictive analysis to guide ecommerce business owners» decisions, ranging from where to plant warehouses to how to improve delivery for the end - consumer through forecasted shipping costs and time in transit.

The signals are then extracted from this expert technical analysis and provided as an opportunity to help traders make more informed decisions and profitable trades with little to no risk involved.

Below is an analysis of Budget 2017 Update from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, outlining some of the government's key announcements and the impact those decisions may have on our Members and our region's business community moving forward.

In my decision to focus my review on Dr. Podles» historical and psychological explanations for the relative dearth of men in church, it never occurred to me that his proposals for reform in chapter ten were quite so independent from his scholarship and analysis in chapters one through nine.

It is both foundational to and prior to conscience, for conscience combines the advocacy of our visions and passionate convictions with the disinterested analysis necessary for moral decision - making, the latter resulting from education.

If such an analysis involves any decision at all, it is the decision to exist; for it distinguishes human Being as existing from the «being to hand» (Vorhandensein)(Vide Heidegger, Existance and Being, p. 185f.

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

The Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Program of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recently released results from a research project on mitigating climate change in Mesoamerican coffee production.

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It's sort of ironic you're asking me for advice on which advice to take, but that's really the crux of the issue, for you and almost everyone heading off to college: You want to make the best decision possible so you talk to as many people as possible, but after a while, it's easy to fall into the paralysis - from - analysis trap — but then again, maybe the next person you talk to will give you the key to unlocking the best decision.

Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

From White House spokesman Nick Shapiro: «The President believes that Phil Mudd would have been an excellent Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis but understands his personal decision and the choice he has made.

It states that Patient Rescue will use data streams from hospitals to build other tools, in addition to Streams, that could carry out real - time analysis of clinical data and support diagnostic decisions.

«Richard Thaler has pioneered the analysis of ways in which human decisions systematically deviate from traditional economic models,» says cognitive scientist Peter Gӓrdenfors of Lund University, Sweden, a member of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.

In the letter, Holt agreed with the Justice Department's decision to bar examiners from stating that a pair of fingerprints «originated from the same source to the absolute exclusion of all» others or expressing a level of certainty that is «absolute or numerically calculated» in an analysis comparing samples collected from crime scenes with those known by authorities to belong to identified sources.

State Sen. Bob Smith (D), a RGGI supporter, said he also thought lawsuits were possible, although he said he would wait for a legal analysis of Christie's action from state officials before making any decisions about an official legislative response.

Now a new analysis is estimating the pace of species movement because of both climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the warming landscape.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

Dr. Rohrich and colleagues write, «Much of this controversy was driven by incomplete information, poor documentation and analysis, and the puzzling decision to withhold key medical evidence from both from investigators and the public.»

Disturbingly, these provisions emerged from a remarkably opaque process with little or no discussion of their policy objectives or analysis of data that would inform these important decisions.

Danny Mills got his PSM in environmental analysis and decision making from Rice.

To learn more about what affects consumer decisions regarding fluid milk purchases, researchers from North Carolina State University used surveys, conjoint analysis, and means - end - chain analysis to uncover the underlying values among dairy milk and nondairy beverage consumers.

Federal agencies such as the U.S. EPA, NASA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Transportation have successfully used similar expert elicitation in support of risk analysis and decision - making on issues ranging from food safety to radio - active waste management.

And since the March guidance, another relevant decision came down from the high court: In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, the judges invalidated a software patent by ruling that a method of financial analysis is an unpatentable «abstract idea,» even when implemented on a computer.

This is the first study of its kind to examine cost - benefit decision - making for alcohol and was the first to apply a framework from economics, called demand curve analysis, to understanding cost - benefit decision making.

Authors include scientists from University of Queensland, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED), UC Santa Barbara, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Imperial College London and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

«It is now clear that almost from the outset decisions were made with too little analysis of the technical challenges involved,» said committee chairman Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York at the hearing.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

Federal agencies such as the U.S. EPA, NASA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Transportation have successfully used similar expert elicitation in support of risk analysis and decision - making on issues ranging from food safety to radioactive waste management.

The second section discusses the decision criteria based on the cost - effectiveness analysis, from which the final decision to adopt or reject new technology, new therapy, or innovative drug, is derived.

NEWARK, Calif., May 31, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEM)(the «Company») today announced its decision to terminate the Company's Phase II Pathway Study in spinal cord injury following an in - depth review of data from the study and after obtaining the concurrence of the study's Interim Analysis Data Monitoring Committee (the «IA - DMC»).

Program staff from NIAID (the primary funder) contributed to study design discussions but played no role in the data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Within 90 days [due approx January 2011] after the date of enactment of this Act, or upon completion of reference designs for the Space Launch System and Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle authorized by this Act, whichever occurs first, the Administrator shall provide a detailed report to the appropriate committees of Congress that provides an overall description of the reference vehicle design, the assumptions, description, data, and analysis of the systems trades and resolution process, justification of trade decisions, the design factors which implement the essential system and vehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by this Act.

Assay, sample and side - to - side variation were quantified by analysis of variance and presumptively incorrect decisions related to high - risk disease were determined using the result from each MRD assay, the mean MRD in the patient as the measure of the true value, and each of 3 different MRD cut - off levels which have been used for making decisions on treatment.

Our professional writers provide tests of the latest models, analysis of the tech, engineering and manufacturing, interviews from the decision - makers, reports on international events and interesting coverage of the people and riders.

People feel less satisfied with their decision after it's made when they have a bunch of different options to choose from, and sometimes people experience paralysis - by - analysis (they give up and don't choose anything at all.).

Economist Guillermo Montes's analysis of data from the massive 2001 National Household Education Survey found that 70 percent of respondents cited a nonreligious reason as the top motivator in their decision to home school.

The work of the fellows and the SDP diagnostic, which comprises descriptive analyses of topics related to college readiness or human capital, uncover important information from data systems for decision - making within a partnership organization.

Doug Reeves suggests that leaders start the conversation with a discussion of the principles on which all stakeholders can agree; make clear what will not change under the new grading policy; be accurate in their risk analysis; and engage in systems thinking to reframe the grading debate from «my grading policies for my classroom» to a collegial responsibility for the decisions of every teacher and administrator in the system.

Because of the work on logic modeling, I feel fairly confident that two years from now, in my final meeting with this group, I will be able to provide them with data analysis that helps them make decisions that guide the future of the project.

The findings from this analysis can be useful to policymakers and school superintendents across the nation as they make funding decisions.

From sales, marketing and communication, to supporting and fostering informal learning, to motivating users, to performing analysis for informed business decisions - TIS web learning portals can enable them all.

In all our programs, MCU ensures that students advance their communication, analysis and decision - making skills, while broadening their appreciation of multiple perspectives and their ability to learn from experience.

Data - based inquiry and decision making is a process in which school personnel engage in ongoing data analysis from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive picture of a school's strengths and challenges.

Author Rochelle Weinstein, whose self - published title What We Leave Behind tracks the love life of the main character from a teenaged first love and into the resulting relationship decisions as an adult, spoke to GoodeReader about how the decision to self - publish is both an automatic response to insightful analysis of the publishing industry as well as one that might not be right for every author.

Regardless of how in - depth and insightful the data analysis and interpretation of both reports may be, the more data is open for public, the better decision authors can make to demand a fair share of their earnings from their signed contract or be better prepared for the self - publishing route to optimize sales.