For example, patients needing knee surgery could compare prices from multiple hospitals and choose the highest value option, while providers would have to increase quality and reduce cost to compete for business.
Recently, Noonan and colleagues (Noonan et al., 2010) showed that monkeys with selective medial OFC lesions failed to choose the highest value option in a three-armed bandit decision making task when the value of the next best option was itself much greater than value of the worst option.
Chimpanzee group hunting of monkeys and human collaborative foraging both fit within the general framework of the Stag Hunt from game theory: individuals have a safe low-value option available to them (the "hare"), but if they cooperate, they can both benefit from a higher value option (the "stag").
Which? also wants the government to introduce a stakeholder-style drawdown product that would provide a "low-cost, high-value" option for consumers.
Collapsed across the final two blocks (right panel of 2 a), pigeons chose the risky option for the high-value option about 35% of the time more often than for the low-value option (t5 = 4.91; p = 0.004, Cohen's d = 2.50).
Data and technology now inform the process, and financial institutions want to leverage that empirical insight to surprise and delight their consumers with high-value options.
Both pigeons and humans were less risk averse for the high-value options than the low-value options, even trending towards outright risk seeking by the end of training.
In Model A this results in a substantially smaller increase of several high PHB value options, notably EB10 (combined hedge and ditch management), EC4 (management of woodland edges) and EF4 (nectar flower mix).
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Lentil also provides rotational benefits for management of weeds, diseases and pests, and in many cases offers a profitable, high value crop option for farmers [ 5].
We investigate a 'policy matrix' representation, which assigns a score for each decision option independently and the option with the highest value is chosen, for one-dimensional online bin packing.
