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Prevention No Cure: A Critique Of The Report Of Australia's National Preventative Health Taskforce, Alex Robson, Mark D. Harrison
Prevention No Cure: A Critique Of The Report Of Australia's National Preventative Health Taskforce, Alex Robson, Mark D. Harrison
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Train Schedule Coordination At Interchange Station In An Open Railway Market Through Agent Negotiation, Chi W. Tsang, Tin K. Ho, Kwan Ho Ip
Train Schedule Coordination At Interchange Station In An Open Railway Market Through Agent Negotiation, Chi W. Tsang, Tin K. Ho, Kwan Ho Ip
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In open railway markets, coordinating train schedules at an interchange station requires negotiation between two independent train operating companies to resolve their operational conflicts. This paper models the stakeholders as software agents and proposes an agent negotiation model to study their interaction. Three negotiation strategies have been devised to represent the possible objectives of the stakeholders, and they determine the behavior in proposing offers to the proponent. Empirical simulation results confirm that the use of the proposed negotiation strategies lead to outcomes that are consistent with the objectives of the stakeholders.
Contextual Effects In Modeling For Small Domain Estimation, Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad, David G. Steel
Contextual Effects In Modeling For Small Domain Estimation, Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad, David G. Steel
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Many different Small Area Estimation (SAE) methods have been proposed to overcome the challenge of findingreliable estimates for small domains. Often, the required data for various research purposes are available at differentlevels of aggregation. Based on the available data, individual-level or aggregated-level models are used in SAE.However, parameter estimates obtained from individual and aggregated level analysis may be different, in practice.This may happen due to some substantial contextual or area-level effects in the covariates which may be misspecifiedin individual-level analysis. If small area models are going to be interpretable in practice, possible contextualeffects should be included. Ignoring these effects leads …
Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis Of Theory And Methods, Natalie Jones, Helen Ross, Timothy Lynam, Pascal Perez, Anne Leitch
Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis Of Theory And Methods, Natalie Jones, Helen Ross, Timothy Lynam, Pascal Perez, Anne Leitch
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Mental models are personal, internal representations of external reality that people use to interact with the world around them. They are constructed by individuals based on their unique life experiences, perceptions, and understandings of the world. Mental models are used to reason and make decisions and can be the basis of individual behaviors. They provide the mechanism through which new information is filtered and stored. Recognizing and dealing with the plurality of stakeholder’s perceptions, values, and goals is currently considered a key aspect of effective natural resource management (NRM) practice. Therefore, gaining a better understanding of how mental models internally …
Reflections On Case Studies, Modelling And Theory Builidng, Magnus Moglia, Kim S. Alexander Dr, Pascal Perez
Reflections On Case Studies, Modelling And Theory Builidng, Magnus Moglia, Kim S. Alexander Dr, Pascal Perez
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This paper provides a discussion on how case study research fits into the bigger picture of theory building in the social sciences. In particular, it discusses how case study research, as opposed to more classical quantitative (often statistical) approaches contribute to the progression of collective learning in science. As such, for arguments sake, in this paper these approaches (i.e. qualitative vs. quantitative) are put into a competitive relationship. It is acknowledged that such competitive relationship does not exist in theory, as they are often considered to be complementary, but in practice qualitative research is often more difficult to publish; and …