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DECISION SENSITIVITY [5 records]

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Record 1 2017-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Technology (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

In order to obtain successful cloud-based computing services, with the benefits of safety and security as well as legal compliance, an organization must first make an informed business decision about the type and sensitivity of data and service it plans to migrate to the cloud, specific configurations and type of cloud service required(e. g., private, hybrid or public), in order to comply with the organization's legal obligations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technologie de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

A series of studies of Bechara, Damasio, and coworkers indicate that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex plays an important role in adult decision making... The decision-making deficit in ventromedial prefrontal patients consists of a strong preference for immediate prospects combined with a reduced sensitivity to future consequences, positive or negative.

CONT

In other words, teenagers cannot be held fully responsible for their actions because all the wiring to allow adult decision making isn’t completed yet.

Key term(s)
  • adult decision-making

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printed Circuits and Microelectronics
OBS

IC technologty

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits imprimés et micro-électronique

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • The Eye
OBS

Determination if trial is to be "catch"... After selecting a usable target pair, a random decision was made whether to present a 2P2(two pulse temporal resolution) trial or a catch trial(one trial in tar).(H. H Mikaelian, Dept. of Psychology, U. of New Brunswick, "An Investigation of the Effects of Video Display Units on Fundamental Visual Processes : Temporal Resolution and Contrast Sensitivity Function", Fredericton, N. B.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Oeil

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

Many management decisions are made as a result of a calculation. All calculations are made from a set of several forecasts or assumptions any of which may turn out to be wrong. It is sensible to estimate how sensitive any decision is to such errors.(...) A sensitivity test involves doing the original calculation several times over, taking each revised assumption in turn to see how seriously it might affect the conclusion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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