Decision Making

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A tap water turbidity crisis in Tel Aviv, Israel, due to technical failure: toxicological and risk management issues.

Herein, we report on the actual events linked to an ammonia spillage into the main waterline of the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area and its surrounding municipalities. Based upon a large magnitude increase of unknown origin in the turbidity and ammonia levels ...
Gary Winston, Shlomo Lerman, Shalom Goldberger, Malcolm Collins, Alex Leventhal (Int J Hyg Environ Health, 200306)
tap-water-turbidity-crisis-tel-aviv-israel-technical-failure.asp

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Aging, memory load, and resource allocation during reading.

To test the notion that aging brings an inability to self-initiate processing, the authors investigated the effects of memory load on online sentence understanding. Younger and older adults read a series of short passages with or without a simultaneous ...
Andrew P Smiler, Danielle D Gagne, Elizabeth A L Stine-Morrow (Psychol Aging, 200306)
aging-memory-load-resource-allocation-reading.asp

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Semantic neighborhood effects on the recognition of ambiguous words.

The effect of semantic neighborhood on the processing of ambiguous words was examined in two lexical decision experiments. Semantic neighborhood was defined in terms of semantic set size and network connectivity. In Experiment 1, the variables of ...
Lawrence Locker, Greg B Simpson, Mark Yates (Mem Cognit, 200306)
semantic-neighborhood-effects-recognition-ambiguous-words.asp

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Follow-up data their use in evidence-based decision-making.

Experience with certain perinatal interventions, such as supplemental oxygen and dexamethasone, leads to the conclusion that follow-up data are needed to be well informed about the safety of certain perinatal interventions. Experience with indomethacin ...
T Michael OShea, Donald J Goldstein (Clin Perinatol, 200306)
follow-up-data-evidence-based-decision-making.asp

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Stealing thunder as a courtroom tactic revisited: processes and boundaries.

Stealing thunder refers to a dissuasion tactic in which an individual reveals potentially incriminating evidence first, for the purpose of reducing its negative impact on an evaluative audience. We examined whether it was necessary to frame the negative ...
Lara Dolnik, Trevor I Case, Kipling D Williams (Law Hum Behav, 200306)
stealing-thunder-courtroom-tactic-revisited-processes-boundaries.asp

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Mental workload while driving: effects on visual search, discrimination, and decision making.

The effects of mental workload on visual search and decision making were studied in real traffic conditions with 12 participants who drove an instrumented car. Mental workload was manipulated by having participants perform several mental tasks while ...
Miguel A Recarte, Luis M Nunes (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200306)
mental-workload-driving-effects-visual-search-discrimination-decision.asp

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Sensation-seeking as a moderator of the effects of peer influences, consistency with personal aspirations, and perceived harm on marijuana and cigarette use among younger adolescents.

Concurrent effects of peer influence and protective cognitive variables on marijuana and cigarette use are hypothesized to be contingent on adolescent sensation-seeking. The hypothesis was tested in 1999-2000 using a survey given to eighth graders ...
Michael D Slater (Subst Use Misuse, 200306)
sensation-seeking-moderator-effects-peer-influences-consistency.asp

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Social cognition and the prefrontal cortex.

Social cognitive neuroscience is a rapidly emerging field that utilizes cognitive neuroscientific techniques (e.g., lesion studies, neuroimaging) to address concepts traditionally in the social psychological realm (e.g., attitudes, stereotypes). The ...
Jacqueline N Wood (Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev, 200306)
social-cognition-prefrontal-cortex.asp

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Opinions about surrogate designation: a population survey in France.

OBJECTIVE: Many patients go through periods when they are too ill to give consent or to participate in decisions. When this occurs, patient autonomy is best maintained when a surrogate designated by the patient and familiar with his or her values can ...
Elie Azoulay, Frédéric Pochard, Sylvie Chevret, Christophe Adrie, Pierre-Edouard Bollaert, Frédéric Brun, Didier Dreyfuss, Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Dany Goldgran-Toledano, Mercé Jourdain, Michel Wolff, Jean-Roger Le Gall, Benoît Schlemmer (Crit Care Med, 200306)
opinions-surrogate-designation-population-survey-france.asp

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The shortage of registered nurses and some new estimates of the effects of wages on registered nurses labor supply: a look at the past and a preview of the 21st century.

The US and many other countries are in the midst of a severe shortage of registered nurses (RNs). Labor supply models for currently trained RNs are estimated by gender and marital status using the 1992, 1996, and 2000 data from the National Sample ...
Yvana A Chiha, Charles R Link (Health Policy, 200306)
shortage-registered-nurses-new-estimates-effects-wages-registered.asp