Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis

TL;DR: Findings from the expert panel provide compelling reasons to provide early, developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive preconception counseling for teens with T2D.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple example problem of material selection for a pressure vessel is introduced and analyzed, and the impact of relaxing some of the assumptions implicitly made in previous work in decision-based design is explored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tackle the problem of analyzing a specific form of reasoning called "sunk costs" in economics and "argument from waste" in argumentation theory, and propose a formal model of argumentation, called practical reasoning, that helps a rational critic to judge which sunk costs arguments are fallacious and which are not.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage target-cost (2STC) arrangement has been proposed as the solution to the missing price during early involvement/selection and the principal-agent setting, which tend to leave the project owner in doubt of the reasonableness of pricing when it is fixed only later after the joint design phase involving the service provider and the owner.