Sentences with phrase «decisions under conditions»

The inability to make advantageous decisions under conditions of risk is associated with health - risk behaviors such as early - onset alcohol and drug use.

You don't necessarily make good long - term decisions under these conditions, though, because the stress hormones focus your attention on more immediate details.

They looked at the way in which people make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and found that their behavior violated expected utility theory — a fundamental assumption of economic theory that holds that decision - makers reason instrumentally about how to maximize their gains.

Colonel John Boyd revolutionized the way fighter pilots were trained to engage the enemy in dogfights by inventing a theory about how to make decisions under conditions of rapid, constant change.

One is almost always — the «almost» is really an academic fudge — making important decisions under conditions of uncertainty, as Sunstein well recognizes.

My statements on policy relate to how think about policy decisions under conditions of deep scientific uncertainty, and to to assess whether policy responses will have their intended / desired effect and what their unintended consequences will be.

In making such decisions under conditions of uncertainty (Ruth Macklin calls them conditions of ignorance), the construction of best - possible and worst - possible scenarios will probably depend in no small part on the basic orientation of the individuals constructing them.

Not exact matches

The United States could remain in the Paris climate accord under the right conditions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, signaling a shift in tone from the Trump administration, which angered allies with its decision to pull out of the agreement.

The decision follows the government giving the green light to a major coal port expansion for India's Adani Group on the reef coast in December, under some of the strictest - ever environmental conditions.

They don't panic and, even when they do feel stressed under the extreme conditions we often see in boardrooms, they never let it affect their decisions.

While this week's Federal Government decision to rule out a Shell takeover under any conditions clearly weakens the Netherlands - based multinational's strategic position in Australia, Woodside had already undermined that position with a recent deal with US group Phillips.

On June 17, 2014 the National Energy Board issued a decision statement to Enbridge under section 54 (1) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19, s 52 announcing that the federal Governor in Council had approved the Northern Gateway pipeline subject to the 209 conditions recommended by the Northern Gateway panel (The panel report was the subject of earlier ABlawg comments here and here).

Economists and systems analysts have devoted considerable attention to «decision - making under conditions of uncertainty,» and fairly sophisticated ethical machinery has been developed for dealing with these macroethical problems.

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

When a question is raised which for most people demands careful thought and responsible personal decision, people like that will very often simply quote a passage from the Scriptures, frequently in no way directly relevant to the matter under discussion and when relevant only valuable in the context of another age and under other conditions than those which are ours today.

saying that the keynesian conception is about spending what you earn is the opposite of what it stands for (its actually what you haplessly describe as the neoclassical position) beyond the even more meaningless claim that wenger adheres to it... keynes broke with the idea that the economy was simply a collection of perfectly informed individuals and firms responding rationally to price incentives generated by market forces and that the big variables that frame an economies performance — output, employment, price level, wages, etc — tend to move in cycles and are shaped by decisions and judgements made under hugely uncertain conditions that if left to markets generate bad outcomes..

In other words, even in a world where there * were * the perfect conditions for all parents (and I'm under no impression that this world will ever exist), I still wouldn't want to assume that everyone would thereby make the right decisions for themselves.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Those conditions make it more likely that young people will use alcohol to excess, and further increases the chances for poor decision making and bad outcomes when under the influence of alcohol.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

(6) the decision to give directions / impose conditions, purportedly under section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, to disperse those taking part in the Climate Camp protest.»

He added that «the mistake probably is that, the EC has hit the political parties with this tariff just recently and you now have to find the money under emergency conditions; but if you were told four years ago that you have to pay 50,000, you probably would not have a problem with it; so maybe it's the sharpness of the decision which is worrying them; but frankly they should be able to find the money.»

As well as giving you a chance to see how the knowledge and skills you are acquiring can be applied, you will also see the conditions under which scientists work and get a feel for workplace culture — all providing valuable insight for the career decisions you'll be making in your final year.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

The study and its maps are being used by state agencies and land managers to make decisions under changing conditions.

These were a series of experiments in which the software ran and processed images under various conditions, selecting targets and gradually being given more authority to command responses to its decisions, culminating in being allowed to select targets, point ChemCam at them, and fire the laser in a series of pulses as occurs during standard scientific measurements.

Interestingly, under these conditions, almost half of people said they'd defer their decision.

When Chris and I made the decision to move to Houston a few years ago, I agreed under one condition: I must make it back to visit Charleston at least once a year.

«The Children's Court has now implemented changes to make it a condition of bail that parents are involved in the planning for education and clinical decisions before that child returns to school and under what conditions.»

Our goals will be to deepen our own understandings of educational justice, to engage with others about complex ethical judgments across multiple lines of difference, and to learn how to enhance educators» and policymakers» capacities to make ethical decisions under challenging conditions.»

The results will guide measurement professionals, educators, families, students, and elected officials in (1) decisions on introducing computer - adaptive and computer - based testing, (2) interpretation of scores, and (3) establishing when and under what conditions to avoid marrying testing with computer technology.

If teachers were under pressure to improve scores on tests (which were not aligned with the standards), and worked under conditions that restricted their authority and responsibility for instructional decision - making, they were less likely to reconceptualize curriculum and evaluation in their schools.

I use multiple data sources — including eight months of participatory classroom observation; in - depth interviews with educators, school leaders, and staff; and document and media analyses — to probe teachers» decision - making processes and to examine how, why, and under what conditions they elect to employ discipline in relation to particular students.

«Assessment should be more than merely a test at the end of instruction to see how students perform under special conditions; rather it should be an integral part of instruction that informs and guides teachers as they make instructional decisions.»

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

TSS2is designed to support driver awareness, decision making and vehicle operation over a wide range of speeds under certain conditions.

After a few books they decided to «come out» - a decision delayed because Caroline had been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and, until her condition was under control, she couldn't add the pressure and stress of tours.

The type of decisions that serious poker players have to make under conditions of stress and uncertainty bear a number of similarities to those that investors are faced with.

Considering it as an investment tool plus a retirement plan, since after 35 years i.e. at the age of 60 it will give a lump - sum amount, is it wise decision to buy the life insurance under given conditions?

Investing equals decision making under the condition of uncertainty.

They also raise their animals in the home where a puppy purchaser can see the dam and the conditions under which the litter was raised, but they generally lack the knowledge and experience necessary to make prudent breeding decisions.

This will not be the first time we, as a society, have to make difficult decisions under uncertain conditions.

In particular, conditions are shown under which the private investor prefers a pre-announced climate policy, and how this policy affects investment decisions and the deployment of clean technologies.

Indeed, it is difficult to communicate exactly what climate projections mean from a decision standpoint — they simulate what might happen under some conditions but do not preclude other outcomes.

They can work wonders in situations popular among game theorists where decisions are made «under uncertainty:» that is, under conditions where objective evidence is clearly inadequate.

The discussion on which methods of decision making, under what conditions of certainty, with little or no time, etc., etc., is all very nice and academic.

These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present climate variability and change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of climate change; improve our capability to model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and anticipated impacts of climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to climate change by providing climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»

A robust decision can be expected to hold up, and perform reasonably well, under a wide variety of possible conditions.

Attempting to use climate information in the context of expected utility can lead to bad decisions; there are much better ways to approach the decision making under conditions of deep uncertainty.

Looking at other decision making frameworks that are more suitable under conditions of deep uncertainty motivates a different type of analysis and emphasizes assessment of uncertainty and areas of ignorance.