The advantage of machine learning methods is that they build decision models that encompass multiple variables at once, allowing the prediction of phenotypes based on combinations of genotypic variables, i.e. two variables that contain no information on their own, but are predictive when assessed together (see Figure 3D) [ 104 106].
Adoption is the process that "involves the multitude of activities, decisions, and evaluations that encompass the broad effort to successfully integrate an innovation into the functional structure of a formal organization" [ 11] (p. 5).
In recent years there have been significant advances in online planning and decision support systems that encompass spatial and statistical analysis and visualisation services.
We have defined the first formal dual-process theory of medical decision-making by taking into consideration the deliberative and the experiential aspects that encompass many of the critical decisions physicians face in practice.
By assigning nine hundred and some odd billion dollars to a tax cut that this bill encompasses, we're making decisions that will make it difficult or different, at least, to make other decisions that we might want to make in the budget.
Deciding about treatment of LPC is one of the most appropriate decisions that fit within this framework because it encompasses careful deliberation of demographic, clinical, practice environment, perceptions of both the decision and of importance of others involved in the decision, and resources to make and implement the decision.
For the purpose of this article, the authors have operationalized the term "ethical challenges" to encompass situations faced when the HCPs perceived themselves to be confronted by decisions that called upon their ethical principles in a problematic manner.
Requirements for "living wills" that encompass hypothetical business plans have to be pored over by regulators; "stress tests" insert government assumptions deep into the decisions banks make about their capital.
This conceptualization encompasses a process of change in which an individual acquires both resources and agency to make and act upon decisions that affect her well-being or that of others [ 27].
