Practitioners and academicians alike have developed useful frameworks and prescriptive solutions for enhancing relationships between suppliers and customers.
"We are interested in collaborative, not prescriptive solutions," explains Marla Feldman, MAZON program director.
In general, the greater the risk and likelihood of adverse outcomes, prescriptive solutions are advocated by an organisation or central policy.
The work of Coiffi [ 20, 26] has explored descriptive decision theory to explain midwifery decision-making and the importance of heuristic devices, whilst Rattray [ 27] offers prescriptive solutions (such as clinical decision-making systems) as a prompt to assist timely and accurate decisions in the use of fetal monitoring in low risk labouring women.
Our intention here was to investigate an approach for identifying pelagic protected areas rather than provide a prescriptive conservation solution for the southern Benguela and Agulhas Bank ecosystems.
From a prescriptive point of view, a solution concept is a set of practical recommendations i.e., recommendations about what the players should do in a game.
In Table 3, we examined the correlations among themes, an indicator of how themes might have been packaged together in discussion to offer a diagnostic (i.e. problem definition) and prescriptive (i.e. problem solution) account of the Lacks case or tissue research more generally.
We considered these suggestions indicative of a general dissatisfaction with the current research paradigm, but not necessarily prescriptive of specific and comprehensive solutions.
This means instead of a prescriptive path, people can create custom solutions that work best for them.
However, such a solution is descriptive rather than prescriptive: it characterizes, the optimal spectrum utilizations for sessions but it does not offer a dynamic perspective that can serve as a basis to develop MAC layer algorithms that achieve such optimality.
