Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata: Handout for METRO Workshop

Handout for the workshop on the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting given for METRO on December 8, 2006

Preference Construction in Difficult Multi-Attribute Health Decisions: Effects of Affect and Coherence Shifting

In shared decision-making, doctors provide patients with information about difficult trade-off treatment decisions so the patient can make an informed choice. Many models of decision-making assume that patients make decisions based on long-term, stable preferences, but research suggests that people dynamically construct preferences for each decision. Affect plays at least two roles in preference construction. First, coherence shifting, or altering preferences prior to choice to make one alternative more attractive, may regulate emotion. Difficult decisions, imagining unpleasant outcomes, and threats to closely held goals produce general negative affect, and coherence shifting may reduce this. Second, preferences for alternatives may be constructed from immediate affective reactions, driving choice. Two dichotomous trade-off health decision scenarios were produced that are highly conflicted on outcome unpleasantness. Experiment 1 compared a serious disease trade-off decision with a job selection task used in prior research on preference construction. Experiment 2 compared decision-making between serious and mild disease treatment decisions differing in outcome severity, also including a physiological affect measure. In both experiments, choice was best predicted by a model including only affect towards alternatives within a decision context. Prediction was not improved by including outcome and attribute ratings independent of decision context, providing support for preference construction over revealed preferences. Coherence shifting of outcome affect and attribute importance ratings was fully or partially supported in all four tasks. Tasks with more severe outcomes or threatening higher-level goals (e.g., survival) produced more aversive feelings but did not lead to stronger coherence shifting

IDEALS - Community Policy

This document outlines the community policy of the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), the institutional repository of the University of Illinois.Ope

The Significance of the Informal Waste Sector in A Minority World Country: A Case-Study of Metropolitan Atlanta

This research examines the informal waste sector in a Minority World context through interviews with informal waste workers, city officials, and material buyers in metropolitan Atlanta. Globally, the informal waste sector is often unacknowledged or explicitly excluded by the jurisdictions in which they operate, and those working in the informal waste sector experience significant vulnerabilities. The empirical findings of this research expose the similarities of the informal waste sector in the Minority World (countries with a disproportionate share of political and economic power) to that of the Majority World (countries historically victimized by colonialism and imperialism, and most recently, capitalism), where the work is precarious and the workers are often vulnerable to economic and political pressures. I also found that the informal metal-recycling sector in metropolitan Atlanta is unacknowledged by the city officials and, in some cases, the sector is criminalized

Null Gravity Simulator Final Report

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Is quality metadata shareable metadata? Presentation for the Association of College and Research Libraries 12th National Conference 2005

Presentation for the Association of College and Research Libraries 12th National Conference 2005 in Minneapolis, MN. See http://hdl.handle.net/2142/145 for full conference paper.Work described funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Getting Started with Data Management Planning Services

This session will cover the why’s and how’s of data management planning and will cover useful tools and strategies for libraries to use whether large or small

Estudio del Foro de Cooperación Económica Asia-Pacífico y el efecto económico que tendría en Panamá

Contenido. 1 Antecedentes del Problema: 1.1 Antecedente de la Política Comercial de Panamá 1.2 Evolución de la Política Comercial 1.3 Estructura Arancelaria De Panamá 1.4 Política Económica y Comercial de Panamá 1.5 El Entorno Económico 1.6 Finanzas Públicas 1.7 Liberación Comercial 1.8 Planteamiento del Problema 1.8.1 Objetivos de la Investigación 1.8.2 Objetivo General 1.8.3 Objetivo Específico 1.8.4 Propósitos de la Investigación 1.8.5 Preguntas Principales 1.8.6 Preguntas Secundarias 1.8.7 Importancia y Justificación del Estudio 1.8.8 Indicadores y Supuestos 1.8.9 Alcances y Limitaciones del Estudio 2. Teoría General de la Integración 2.2 Ventajas y Desventajas de la Integración 2.3 NeoFuncionalismo 2.4 La integración económica 2.5 Modalidades de integración económica: 2.6 Desventajas de la integración económica: 2.7 Formas de integración económica 3 Tipo de Investigación 3.1 Definición del Esquema Investigacional 4 Política Internacional de la APEC 4.1 Foro de Cooperación Asia-Pacífico 4.2 Su Misión 4.3 Antecedentes 4.4 Cronología de la Cumbre Anual de Líderes Económicos de APEC 4.5 Representantes 4.6 Beneficios 5. Recabación Y Tratamiento de Datos 5.1 Observaciones y Comentarios del PIB Mundial versus el PIB de los países que conforman la APEC 5.2 Observaciones y Comentarios del Crecimiento del PIb en porcentajes 5.3 Observaciones y Comentarios acerca de las Plataformas Históricas e Económica de I que integran apec 5.4 Observaciones y Comentarios de las Exportaciones de la APEC 5.5 Observaciones y Comentarios de las Importaciones de los países miembros de la API 5.6 Observaciones y Comentarios del Flujo de inversión de los países que conforman APEC 6. Comparativos de los países con plataforma Similares a la de Panamá, Conclusiones Recomendaciones. 6.1 Problemática de Panamá 6.2 La realidad de Panamá 6.3 beneficios directo que Obtendría Panamá al formar parte de la APEC : 6.4 Pasos a Seguir para Lograrla Integración de Panamá a la APEC. 6.5 Medidas que debe adoptar Panamá para asegurar su crecimiento económico 7. Método de Negociación que Panamá debería Emplear. Anexo. Bibliografía