Behavioral Simulation
Mostrando 13-22 de 22 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. F-MFG (Functional Mark Flow Graph) and its application in anthropocentric systems design. / Redes F-MFG (Functional Mark Flow Graph) e sua aplicação no projeto de sistemas antropocêntricos.
This work introduces an algebraic formalization of F-MFG (Functional-Mark Flow Graph). This formalization is effective for analysis and simulation of anthropocentric production systems, which is focused on the interaction and interface between human elements and production systems. When approaching anthropocentric systems as Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, t
Publicado em: 1998
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14. Home care for the disabled elderly: predictors and expected costs.
While interest in publicly funded home care for the disabled elderly is keen, basic policy issues need to be addressed before an appropriate program can be adopted and financed. This article presents findings from a study in which the cost implications of anticipated behavioral responses (for example, caregiver substitution) are estimated. Using simulation t
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15. Risk adjustment alternatives in paying for behavioral health care under Medicaid.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of various risk adjustment models in behavioral health applications such as setting mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) capitation payments or overall capitation payments for populations including MH/SA users. DATA SOURCES/STUDY DESIGN: The 1991-93 administrative data from the Michigan Medicaid program were used. W
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16. Extinction as New Learning Versus Unlearning: Considerations from a Computer Simulation of the Cerebellum
Like many forms of Pavlovian conditioning, eyelid conditioning displays robust extinction. We used a computer simulation of the cerebellum as a tool to consider the widely accepted view that extinction involves new, inhibitory learning rather than unlearning of acquisition. Previously, this simulation suggested basic mechanistic features of extinction and sa
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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17. Modeling the Effects of Epidemics on Routinely Collected Data
The use of routinely collected data, such as absenteeism, to provide an early warning of an epidemic will depend on better understanding of the effects of epidemics on such data. We reviewed studies in behavioral medicine and health psychology in order to build a model relating known factors related to human health information and treatment seeking behavior
American Medical Informatics Association.
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18. Simulating the effects of employer contributions on adverse selection and health plan choice.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of employer contribution policy and adverse selection on employees' health plan choices. STUDY DESIGN: Microsimulation methods to predict employees' choices between two health plan options and to track changes in those choices over time. The simulation predicts choice given premiums, healthcare spending by enrollees in ea
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19. Sexual selection driving diversification in jumping spiders
Theory predicts that speciation rates should be accelerated in organisms undergoing sexual selection. In systems involving female choice, sexual selection acts directly on traits that may be important in prezygotic reproductive isolation, potentially fostering rapid divergence of such traits among allopatric populations. Despite the appeal of this concept, i
The National Academy of Sciences.
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20. Experiments investigating cooperative types in humans: A complement to evolutionary theory and simulations
Unlike other species, humans cooperate in large, distantly related groups, a fact that has long presented a puzzle to biologists. The pathway by which adaptations for large-scale cooperation among nonkin evolved in humans remains a subject of vigorous debate. Results from theoretical analyses and agent-based simulations suggest that evolutionary dynamics nee
National Academy of Sciences.
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21. Linkage analysis of ordinal traits for pedigree data
Linkage analysis is used routinely to map genes for human diseases and conditions. However, the existing linkage-analysis methods require that the diseases or conditions either be dichotomized or measured by a quantitative trait, such as blood pressure for hypertension. In the latter case, normality is generally assumed for the trait. However, many diseases
National Academy of Sciences.
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22. Simulating the impact of medical savings accounts on small business.
OBJECTIVE: To simulate whether allowing small businesses to offer employer-funded medical savings accounts (MSAs) would change the amount or type of insurance coverage. STUDY SETTING: Economic policy evaluation using a national probability sample of nonelderly non-institutionalized Americans from the 1993 Current Population Survey (CPS). STUDY DESIGN: We use