The greatest impairment is found in attention, memory, judgment, decision-making, information processing and language skills.
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Medical informaticists, researchers and innovative companies are focusing on this essential limitation of medical decision-making by designing information systems to be used by physicians at the point of care, during the patient encounter.
Careful decision-making in communicating information to the public seems to reflect lessons learned by a chief executive who has had to navigate the aftermath of attacks or threatened attacks where American lives were lost or threatened.
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Devices that are "good smart" leave us in complete control of the situation and seek to enhance our decision-making by providing more information.
And the consequent decision-making flaws included inadequate contingency planning, insufficient information search and biased assessments of risk, cost-benefits and moral implications.
When a user is provided with useful, targeted, timely information, his decision-making will be better, Fischer said.
Rather, it would also communicate to the user information useful in decision-making, about not just usage, but market prices, and grid conditions as well.
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Former colleagues say Mr. Shuvalov had no inside information on the decision-making process and didn't use his official position to try to affect the share price.
Information for investment decision-making purposes became more accessible.
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When they were faced with tossing or keeping their own items, the hoarders' brain responses also differed from that of the other participants: they showed excessive activation in the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region involved with decision-making, particularly in situations involving conflicting information or uncertainty.
If everyone has their own facts, slightly tweaked to reflect their position, then there is no true north for decision-making and everything, even the most basic information, is subjective.
This will require improvements in the capacity, knowledge, communication and networking available to enhance the flow and quality of information available for informed decision-making on the status of coastal resources, and their effective management in light of climate change impacts.
Therefore it is particularly important to have a well-informed population with access to accurate and independent information from diverse sources, with an understanding of the decision-making processes.
Reliable scientific information and data must inform decision-making processes so as to develop sound policies for the sustainable management of our ocean.
What information sources drive the consumer decision-making process?
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The partners must have the ability to use that information to improve their technologies and decision-making.
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But as human operators struggle to assimilate the information collected by robotic sensors, decision-making by robots seems likely to increase.
The case is stronger: letting people socialize their risks gives them perverse incentives and eliminates the information that would otherwise guide effective decision-making.
The strategy aims to ensure the responsible development of nanotechnology by providing guidance to the Federal agencies that produce the scientific information for risk management, regulatory decision-making, product use, research planning, and public outreach.
Buyers already have cameras that can scan bar codes and provide both the quantity and quality of information that result in rational pricing and informed decision-making.
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Indeed, research has shown that it is entirely natural for decision-making groups, whatever their motivations and guidelines, to tend to suppress information flow, have extreme attitudes, make extreme judgments, be inflexible in adapting their approach to changing circumstances, and--despite all that--have great confidence in their decisions.
The challenge is to know how much information and analysis is needed for each step in a decision-making process.
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The connection patterns reveal valuable information quickly, accurately and allow for faster, more relevant decision-making.
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When information is relevant, standardised and public, it fosters intelligent decision-making.
As an example, today, a hospital can easily develop better patient information management that gives better control over the dissemination of patient data and expediting decision-making.
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Participants welcomed another new law in the pipeline, on the transparency of state institutions to the mass-media, as another effective legal instrument to exercise the right to access information, which is judged to improve good governance and civil society participation in decision-making.
Or a 2012 IDC study, in which 64% of shoppers believe in-store use of their smartphones will turn up information at least as useful for making a decision as going online before coming into the store.
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