The potential benefits of operationalizing decision rules based on control engineering principles are particularly significant for adaptive interventions that involve multiple components or address co-morbidities, situations that pose significant challenges to conventional clinical practice.
As Bowker and Star (2000: 13) have detailed, a standard constitutes 'any set of agreed-upon rules for the production of (textual or material) objects' which may be 'deployed in making things work together.' Embedding certain standards within a large scale infrastructure operationalizes certain rules of production and practice.
Unfortunately, trial eligibility criteria tend to be written without concern for their computability, thus limiting their ability to be operationalized using rule-engines or database query languages in or in order to satisfy the logical conditions defined by the criteria in an automated manner.
However, users of OQAQ frequently had to develop their own rules for operationalizing the instrument and OQAQ does not reflect current evidence on sources of potential bias in systematic reviews (for example funding source and conflict of interest [68], [69], [70]).
In the next post, I'll look at rankism's many faces, and discuss how targeting it, in all its guises, would systematically operationalize the golden rule.
As we realize that over the long haul dignitarian societies have a competitive advantage, and as less dignitarian groups are absorbed by more dignitarian ones, we gradually operationalize the Golden Rule and extend its writ.
Machine-learning models, which are much more sophisticated than the rules suggested by psychologists in their experiments, represent a potentially valuable way to operationalize the notion that rules rather than discretion can improve real world decision making.
Metalinguistic reflection was operationalized as the verbalized rules and generalizations about English noted by L2 learners in a journal-writing task, while L2 learning was measured by testing grammatical accuracy and receptive and productive vocabulary.
A dynamic treatment regime is a set of sequential decision rules that operationalizes this process.
Given or chosen goals, plans, strategies, and rules are operationalized rather than questioned.
The detailed coding scheme and coding rules to operationalize work interruptions are described elsewhere [ 29].
