Forest management decisions are characterised by a high level of uncertainty because responses reflect a range of interacting ecological processes.
Decisions are characterised by combinations of uncertainty and incomplete information assembled by professionals with different, but highly complementary areas of expertise.
However, it provides a static view and assumes passive commitment to an investment strategy when real world land use and management investment decisions are characterised by uncertainty, irreversibility, change, and adaptation.
A minority of technology adoption decisions were characterised by selecting a technology in the first instance and exploring how this might fit with strategic plans and service needs ('technology push').
Shared decision making is characterised by the bilateral flow of information, between clinician and patient, with deliberation and decision making divided between the two parties.
The intuitive mode of decision making is characterised by heuristics—short-cuts, abbreviated ways of thinking, maxims, 'seen this many times before', ways of thinking.
SDM is commonly contrasted with the paternalistic approach to decision making which is characterised by the expression, 'doctor knows best'.
Scores >37.5 on the overall scale (range 0 100) indicate high decisional conflict, which is characterised by decision delay and/or uncertainty about decision implementation (O'Connor, 1995).
In this technique, the phenotype of an evolved heuristic is characterised by a decision vector with the dimension of K, where K is the number of decision situations (each decision situation includes a number of jobs to be prioritised).
The 'technical school' is characterised by a reliance on rational decision rules, data sets and quantitative analysis.
