A key challenge for cognitive psychology is the investigation of mental representations, such as object categories, subjective probabilities, choice utilities, and memory traces.
When considering LAI antipsychotic use, choice utilities revealed that side effects, pain at administration site, embarrassment and site of administration (gluteal versus deltoid) were all important factors (Table 2).
By introducing social influence attributes into a choice utility function, social network simulation is integrated with the traditional discrete choice analysis in a three-stage process.
(a) The (agricultural) economist perspective, rooted in the seminal works by the 'classic' economists T.R. Malthus, D. Ricardo and J.H. von Thünen, focusses on the interrelation between input factors (land, labour or capital) and outputs (produce) from land, mostly in monetary terms, often entailing a rational choice (utility optimisation) perspective.
Among the variants of decision making models Schneider [ 11] espoused are consumer choice, expected utility, state-dependent utility, prospect, cumulative prospect, endowment/status quo/veil of experience, regret and disappointment, time preferences, poverty and social capital.
True to his heritage, Goldwater casts the issue as one of giving consumers "the freedom to make the best choice". The utilities, he says, "don't like competition.
The Energy Information Administration forecasts that "retirements [will] far outpace new additions" as cheap natural gas and rising construction costs for coal plants make gas the choice of utilities building new facilities.
Xcel Energy, Minnesota's largest utility, buys the electricity under contract for three to four cents a kilowatt-hour, not much more than the cost of power generated by gas-fired turbines, the current source of choice for utilities seeking new capacity.
Without the Cold War, the thorium reactor might well have been the power plant of choice for utilities everywhere.Today, the thorium reactor is a non-starter, at least in America and other countries that have invested heavily in light-water technology.
Moreover, we generalize our analysis framework and show that a broader choice of utilities can be obtained.
While these giant solar power plants have been a favored choice for utilities for meeting renewable energy mandates, they have become less popular.
