Sample records for alj issues decision

  1. 42 CFR 405.1046 - Notice of an ALJ decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ..., Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1046 Notice of an ALJ decision. (a) General rule. Unless the ALJ dismisses the hearing, the ALJ will issue a written decision... must be based on evidence offered at the hearing or otherwise admitted into the record. The ALJ mails a...

  2. 42 CFR 405.1064 - ALJ decisions involving statistical samples.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false ALJ decisions involving statistical samples. 405... Medicare Coverage Policies § 405.1064 ALJ decisions involving statistical samples. When an appeal from the QIC involves an overpayment issue and the QIC used a statistical sample in reaching its...

  3. 42 CFR 405.1064 - ALJ decisions involving statistical samples.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false ALJ decisions involving statistical samples. 405... Medicare Coverage Policies § 405.1064 ALJ decisions involving statistical samples. When an appeal from the QIC involves an overpayment issue and the QIC used a statistical sample in reaching its...

  4. 45 CFR 160.546 - ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false ALJ's decision. 160.546 Section 160.546 Public... GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS Procedures for Hearings § 160.546 ALJ's decision. (a) The ALJ must... be final and binding on the parties 60 days from the date of service of the ALJ's decision. ...

  5. 45 CFR 150.453 - ALJ decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false ALJ decision. 150.453 Section 150.453 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.453 ALJ decision. The ALJ...

  6. 49 CFR 107.323 - ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 49 Transportation 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false ALJ's decision. 107.323 Section 107.323 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY... PROGRAM PROCEDURES Enforcement Compliance Orders and Civil Penalties § 107.323 ALJ's decision. (a) After...

  7. 42 CFR 405.1032 - Issues before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Issues before an ALJ. 405.1032 Section 405.1032..., Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1032 Issues before an ALJ. (a) General rule. The issues before the ALJ include all the issues brought out in the initial...

  8. 42 CFR 423.2032 - Issues before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Issues before an ALJ. 423.2032 Section 423.2032..., and Judicial Review § 423.2032 Issues before an ALJ. (a) General rule. The issues before the ALJ include all the issues brought out in the coverage determination, redetermination, or reconsideration that...

  9. 7 CFR 283.32 - ALJ's initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false ALJ's initial decision. 283.32 Section 283.32 Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF... the State agency submits the notice of appeal and evidence in support of the appeal. The ALJ may...

  10. 42 CFR 423.2046 - Notice of an ALJ decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... making the determination; (2) The procedures for obtaining additional information concerning the decision... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Notice of an ALJ decision. 423.2046 Section 423... (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM VOLUNTARY MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review...

  11. 42 CFR 3.548 - Appeal of the ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY WORK PRODUCT Enforcement Program § 3.548 Appeal of the ALJ's... copy of the Board's decision and a statement describing the right of any respondent who is penalized to... 42 Public Health 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Appeal of the ALJ's decision. 3.548 Section 3.548...

  12. 42 CFR 3.548 - Appeal of the ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY WORK PRODUCT Enforcement Program § 3.548 Appeal of the ALJ's... copy of the Board's decision and a statement describing the right of any respondent who is penalized to... 42 Public Health 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Appeal of the ALJ's decision. 3.548 Section 3.548...

  13. 42 CFR 3.548 - Appeal of the ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY WORK PRODUCT Enforcement Program § 3.548 Appeal of the ALJ's... copy of the Board's decision and a statement describing the right of any respondent who is penalized to... 42 Public Health 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Appeal of the ALJ's decision. 3.548 Section 3.548...

  14. 42 CFR 3.548 - Appeal of the ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY WORK PRODUCT Enforcement Program § 3.548 Appeal of the ALJ's... copy of the Board's decision and a statement describing the right of any respondent who is penalized to... 42 Public Health 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Appeal of the ALJ's decision. 3.548 Section 3.548...

  15. 42 CFR 405.1104 - Request for MAC review when an ALJ does not issue a decision timely.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Request for MAC review when an ALJ does not issue a... under § 405.1016 may request MAC review if— (1) The appellant files a written request with the ALJ to... escalation or 5 calendar days from the end of the applicable adjudication period set forth in § 405.1016. (b...

  16. 42 CFR 405.1104 - Request for MAC review when an ALJ does not issue a decision timely.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Request for MAC review when an ALJ does not issue a... under § 405.1016 may request MAC review if— (1) The appellant files a written request with the ALJ to... escalation or 5 calendar days from the end of the applicable adjudication period set forth in § 405.1016. (b...

  17. 42 CFR 426.468 - Decision to not appeal an ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... without good cause shown waives the right to challenge any part(s) of the ALJ's decision under § 426.465. (b) Unless the Board finds good cause shown for late filing, an untimely appeal is dismissed. (c) If...

  18. 45 CFR 2554.20 - How are issues brought to the attention of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false How are issues brought to the attention of the ALJ? 2554.20 Section 2554.20 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) CORPORATION... § 2554.20 How are issues brought to the attention of the ALJ? (a) All applications to the ALJ for an...

  19. 42 CFR 426.460 - Effect of an ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Effect of an ALJ's decision. 426.460 Section 426.460 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES... decision within 30 days. Any change in policy applies prospectively to requests for service or claims filed...

  20. 42 CFR 426.460 - Effect of an ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Effect of an ALJ's decision. 426.460 Section 426.460 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES... decision within 30 days. Any change in policy applies prospectively to requests for service or claims filed...

  1. 13 CFR 142.19 - How are issues brought to the attention of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false How are issues brought to the attention of the ALJ? 142.19 Section 142.19 Business Credit and Assistance SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION... attention of the ALJ? All applications to the ALJ for an order or ruling are made by motion, stating the...

  2. 45 CFR 681.37 - What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision? 681.37 Section 681.37 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals § 681.37 What are...

  3. 45 CFR 681.37 - What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision? 681.37 Section 681.37 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals § 681.37 What are...

  4. 45 CFR 681.37 - What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision? 681.37 Section 681.37 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals § 681.37 What are...

  5. 45 CFR 681.37 - What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision? 681.37 Section 681.37 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals § 681.37 What are...

  6. 45 CFR 681.37 - What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false What are the procedures for appealing the ALJ decision? 681.37 Section 681.37 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals § 681.37 What are...

  7. 42 CFR 423.2000 - Hearing before an ALJ: general rule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM VOLUNTARY MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT Reopening, ALJ Hearings... subject to the restrictions in § 423.2018, examine the evidence used in making the determination under... conducts a de novo review and issues a decision based on the hearing record. (e) If an enrollee waives his...

  8. 45 CFR 150.417 - Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ. 150.417 Section 150.417 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.417...

  9. 45 CFR 150.417 - Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ. 150.417 Section 150.417 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.417...

  10. 29 CFR 1986.109 - Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. 1986... Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... ALJ concludes that the respondent has violated the law, the ALJ will issue an order that will require...

  11. 29 CFR 1986.109 - Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. 1986... Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... ALJ concludes that the respondent has violated the law, the ALJ will issue an order that will require...

  12. 29 CFR 1985.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1985... orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate findings.... (d)(1) If the ALJ concludes that the respondent has violated the law, the ALJ will issue an order...

  13. 76 FR 53942 - Richard A. Herbert, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-08-30

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 09-33] Richard A. Herbert, M.D.; Decision and Order On June 15, 2010, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Mary Ellen Bittner issued the attached recommended decision. Thereafter, Respondent filed Exceptions to the ALJ's decision. Having reviewed the entire record including Respondent's...

  14. 77 FR 64131 - Zvi H. Perper, M.D., Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-10-18

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 11-34] Zvi H. Perper, M.D., Decision and Order On July 19, 2011, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Gail A. Randall issued the attached recommended decision. The Respondent did not file exceptions to the decision. Having reviewed the entire record, I have decided to adopt the ALJ's...

  15. 29 CFR 1978.109 - Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. 1978... Litigation § 1978.109 Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will... the ALJ determines that the respondent has not violated the law, an order will be issued denying the...

  16. 29 CFR 1978.109 - Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. 1978... Litigation § 1978.109 Decisions and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will... the ALJ determines that the respondent has not violated the law, an order will be issued denying the...

  17. 29 CFR 1987.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1987.... (d)(1) If the ALJ concludes that the respondent has violated the law, the ALJ will issue an order... determines that the respondent has not violated the law, an order will be issued denying the complaint. If...

  18. 45 CFR 79.37 - Initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Initial decision. 79.37 Section 79.37 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.37 Initial decision. (a) The ALJ shall issue an initial decision based only on the record, which...

  19. 6 CFR 13.37 - Initial Decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 6 Domestic Security 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Initial Decision. 13.37 Section 13.37 Domestic Security DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.37 Initial Decision. (a) The ALJ will issue an Initial Decision based only on the record, which will contain...

  20. 10 CFR 13.37 - Initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Initial decision. 13.37 Section 13.37 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.37 Initial decision. (a) The ALJ shall issue an... any portions thereof, violate § 13.3; and (2) If the person is liable for penalties or assessments...

  1. 45 CFR 79.18 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Authority of the ALJ. 79.18 Section 79.18 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.18 Authority of the ALJ. (a) The ALJ shall conduct a fair and impartial hearing, avoid delay...

  2. 6 CFR 13.18 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 6 Domestic Security 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Authority of the ALJ. 13.18 Section 13.18 Domestic Security DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.18 Authority of the ALJ. (a) The ALJ will conduct a fair and impartial hearing, avoid delay...

  3. 45 CFR 150.423 - Communications with the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Communications with the ALJ. 150.423 Section 150.423 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS... Communications with the ALJ. No party or person (except employees of the ALJ's office) may communicate in any way...

  4. 76 FR 48897 - Sheryl Lavender, D.O. Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-08-09

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 10-70] Sheryl Lavender, D.O. Decision and Order On October 28, 2010, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Timothy D. Wing, issued the attached..., I order that DEA Certificate of Registration, BL1667596, issued to Sheryl Lavender, D.O., be, and it...

  5. 76 FR 71370 - Silviu Ziscovici, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-17

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 11-3] Silviu Ziscovici, M.D.; Decision and Order On December 10, 2010, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Timothy D. Wing, issued the... Certificate of Registration, BZ4692756, issued to Silviu Ziscovici, M.D., be, and it hereby is, revoked. I...

  6. 49 CFR 1503.655 - Initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Rules of Practice in TSA Civil Penalty Actions § 1503.655 Initial decision. (a) Contents. The ALJ may... copies of that initial decision available to all parties and the TSA decision maker. (b) Written decision... ALJ is persuasive authority in any other civil penalty action, unless appealed and reversed by the TSA...

  7. 42 CFR 405.1002 - Right to an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Right to an ALJ hearing. 405.1002 Section 405.1002 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MEDICARE..., Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1002 Right to an ALJ...

  8. 29 CFR 24.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... ENERGY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED Litigation § 24.109 Decision and orders of the... cases arising under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act, exemplary damages... brought under the Energy Reorganization Act, when an ALJ issues a decision that the complaint has merit...

  9. 29 CFR 24.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... ENERGY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED Litigation § 24.109 Decision and orders of the... cases arising under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act, exemplary damages... brought under the Energy Reorganization Act, when an ALJ issues a decision that the complaint has merit...

  10. 29 CFR 24.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... ENERGY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED Litigation § 24.109 Decision and orders of the... cases arising under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act, exemplary damages... brought under the Energy Reorganization Act, when an ALJ issues a decision that the complaint has merit...

  11. 29 CFR 24.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... ENERGY REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED Litigation § 24.109 Decision and orders of the... cases arising under the Safe Drinking Water Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act, exemplary damages... brought under the Energy Reorganization Act, when an ALJ issues a decision that the complaint has merit...

  12. 42 CFR 423.2018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 423.2018 Section 423.2018 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2018 Submitting evidence before the ALJ...

  13. 42 CFR 423.2018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 423.2018 Section 423.2018 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2018 Submitting evidence before the ALJ...

  14. 42 CFR 423.2018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 423.2018 Section 423.2018 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2018 Submitting evidence before the ALJ...

  15. 10 CFR 13.16 - Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. 13.16 Section 13.16 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.16 Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. (a) A reviewing official or ALJ in a particular case may disqualify...

  16. 24 CFR 180.210 - Withdrawal or disqualification of ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CONSOLIDATED HUD HEARING PROCEDURES FOR CIVIL RIGHTS MATTERS Administrative Law Judge § 180.210 Withdrawal or disqualification of ALJ. (a) Disqualification. If an ALJ finds...

  17. 77 FR 18862 - Zhiwei Lin, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-03-28

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 10-54] Zhiwei Lin, M.D.; Decision and Order On September 19, 2011, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Timothy D. Wing issued the....C. 824, of the CSA. Calvin Ramsey, 76 FR 20034, 20036 (2011) (other citations omitted); Brenton D...

  18. 45 CFR 150.403 - Scope of ALJ's authority.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Scope of ALJ's authority. 150.403 Section 150.403 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.403 Scope of ALJ's...

  19. 45 CFR 150.403 - Scope of ALJ's authority.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Scope of ALJ's authority. 150.403 Section 150.403 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.403 Scope of ALJ's...

  20. 76 FR 60873 - Jeffery M. Freesemann, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-09-30

    ... considered the ALJ's decision and the record in light of the parties' post-hearing briefs, I have decided to...'s recommended Order. \\1\\ The ALJ made extensive findings under the public interest factors. See ALJ... ALJ Ex. 1; see also ALJ Slip op. at 32. Moreover, there was no application pending at the time of the...

  1. 42 CFR 498.103 - Notice and effect of revised decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Notice and effect of revised decision. 498.103... Departmental Appeals Board § 498.103 Notice and effect of revised decision. (a) Notice. The notice mailed to... decision. (b) Effect—(1) ALJ revised decision. An ALJ revised decision is binding unless it is reviewed by...

  2. 7 CFR 1.631 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 1.631 Section 1.631... Licenses General Provisions Related to Hearings § 1.631 What are the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process...

  3. 7 CFR 1.631 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 1.631 Section 1.631... Licenses General Provisions Related to Hearings § 1.631 What are the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process...

  4. 50 CFR 221.31 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 221.31... General Provisions Related to Hearings § 221.31 What are the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process, consistent with...

  5. 50 CFR 221.31 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 221.31... General Provisions Related to Hearings § 221.31 What are the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process, consistent with...

  6. 43 CFR 45.31 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 45.31... the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process, consistent with the requirements of § 45.60(a), including the powers to...

  7. 43 CFR 45.31 - What are the powers of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What are the powers of the ALJ? 45.31... the powers of the ALJ? The ALJ will have all powers necessary to conduct a fair, orderly, expeditious, and impartial hearing process, consistent with the requirements of § 45.60(a), including the powers to...

  8. 76 FR 71374 - Joseph Giacchino, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-17

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Drug Enforcement Administration [Docket No. 10-54] Joseph Giacchino, M.D.; Decision and Order On July 9, 2010, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Timothy D. Wing, issued the attached... prevail. See, e.g., Bourne Pharmacy, 72 FR 18,273, 18,274 (2007); Agostino Carlucci, M.D., 49 FR 33,184...

  9. 42 CFR 423.2014 - Request for an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Request for an ALJ hearing. 423.2014 Section 423.2014 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES..., and Judicial Review § 423.2014 Request for an ALJ hearing. (a) Content of the request. The request for...

  10. 42 CFR 405.1014 - Request for an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Request for an ALJ hearing. 405.1014 Section 405...'s reconsideration, the deadline specified in § 405.1016 for deciding the appeal begins on the date..., the adjudication period in § 405.1016 begins the date the ALJ grants the request to extend the filing...

  11. 42 CFR 405.1014 - Request for an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Request for an ALJ hearing. 405.1014 Section 405...'s reconsideration, the deadline specified in § 405.1016 for deciding the appeal begins on the date..., the adjudication period in § 405.1016 begins the date the ALJ grants the request to extend the filing...

  12. 29 CFR 1983.110 - Decision and orders of the Administrative Review Board.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 219 OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2008 Litigation § 1983.110... judicial review, of a decision of the ALJ, or a respondent alleging that the complaint was frivolous or... issued denying the complaint. If, upon the request of the respondent, the ARB determines that a complaint...

  13. 29 CFR 1983.110 - Decision and orders of the Administrative Review Board.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 219 OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2008 Litigation § 1983.110... judicial review, of a decision of the ALJ, or a respondent alleging that the complaint was frivolous or... issued denying the complaint. If, upon the request of the respondent, the ARB determines that a complaint...

  14. 45 CFR 79.16 - Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. 79.16 Section 79.16 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.16 Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. (a) A reviewing...

  15. 6 CFR 13.16 - Disqualification of Reviewing Official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 6 Domestic Security 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Disqualification of Reviewing Official or ALJ. 13.16 Section 13.16 Domestic Security DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.16 Disqualification of Reviewing Official or ALJ. (a) A Reviewing...

  16. 29 CFR 1978.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1978... Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... ALJ concludes that the respondent has violated the law, the order must order the respondent to take...

  17. 42 CFR 423.2018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 423.2018 Section 423.2018 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2018 Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. (a) All...

  18. 42 CFR 423.2018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 423.2018 Section 423.2018 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2018 Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. (a) All...

  19. 31 CFR 16.16 - Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. 16.16 Section 16.16 Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury... an ALJ. Such motion shall be accompanied by an affidavit alleging personal bias or other reason for...

  20. 31 CFR 16.16 - Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. 16.16 Section 16.16 Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury... an ALJ. Such motion shall be accompanied by an affidavit alleging personal bias or other reason for...

  1. 13 CFR 142.26 - Can a party informally discuss the case with the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Can a party informally discuss the case with the ALJ? 142.26 Section 142.26 Business Credit and Assistance SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION... the case with the ALJ? No. Such discussions are forbidden as ex parte communications with the ALJ as...

  2. 7 CFR 1.632 - What happens if the ALJ becomes unavailable?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What happens if the ALJ becomes unavailable? 1.632 Section 1.632 Agriculture Office of the Secretary of Agriculture ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS Conditions in FERC Hydropower Licenses General Provisions Related to Hearings § 1.632 What happens if the ALJ becomes...

  3. 29 CFR 1984.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1984... law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate findings, conclusions, and an order... compounded daily. (2) If the ALJ determines that the respondent has not violated the law, an order will be...

  4. 29 CFR 1984.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1984... law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate findings, conclusions, and an order... compounded daily. (2) If the ALJ determines that the respondent has not violated the law, an order will be...

  5. 45 CFR 79.11 - Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. 79.11 Section 79.11 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 79.11 Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. Upon receipt of an answer, the...

  6. 10 CFR 13.11 - Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. 13.11 Section 13.11 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.11 Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. Upon receipt of an answer, the reviewing official shall file the complaint and...

  7. 6 CFR 13.11 - Referral of Complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 6 Domestic Security 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Referral of Complaint and answer to the ALJ. 13.11 Section 13.11 Domestic Security DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.11 Referral of Complaint and answer to the ALJ. Upon receipt of an answer, the...

  8. 10 CFR 13.11 - Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. 13.11 Section 13.11 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.11 Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. Upon receipt of an answer, the reviewing official shall file the complaint and...

  9. 42 CFR 423.2020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM VOLUNTARY MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT Reopening, ALJ...-teleconferencing technology is available to conduct the appearance. (2) The ALJ may also offer to conduct a hearing...-teleconferencing technology is not available; or (ii) Special or extraordinary circumstances exist. (c) Notice of...

  10. 42 CFR 405.1020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... HUMAN SERVICES MEDICARE PROGRAM FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED Determinations... the ALJ finds that VTC technology is available to conduct the appearance. The ALJ may also offer to... technology is not available; or (2) Special or extraordinary circumstances exist. (c) Notice of hearing. (1...

  11. 42 CFR 405.1038 - Deciding a case without a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Deciding a case without a hearing before an ALJ. 405.1038 Section 405.1038 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH..., Redeterminations, Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1038...

  12. 42 CFR 405.1016 - Time frames for deciding an appeal before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Time frames for deciding an appeal before an ALJ. 405.1016 Section 405.1016 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH..., Redeterminations, Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1016...

  13. 42 CFR 405.1016 - Time frames for deciding an appeal before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Time frames for deciding an appeal before an ALJ. 405.1016 Section 405.1016 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH..., Redeterminations, Reconsiderations, and Appeals Under Original Medicare (Part A and Part B) Alj Hearings § 405.1016...

  14. 42 CFR 423.2020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ. 423.2020 Section 423.2020 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2020 Time and place for a hearing before an...

  15. 42 CFR 423.2020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ. 423.2020 Section 423.2020 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2020 Time and place for a hearing before an...

  16. 42 CFR 423.2020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ. 423.2020 Section 423.2020 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2020 Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ. (a...

  17. 42 CFR 423.2020 - Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Time and place for a hearing before an ALJ. 423.2020 Section 423.2020 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND... Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.2020 Time and place for a hearing before an...

  18. 42 CFR 405.1030 - ALJ hearing procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false ALJ hearing procedures. 405.1030 Section 405.1030 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MEDICARE....1016 is tolled from the date of the hearing to the date the evidence is submitted. (e) Good cause does...

  19. 42 CFR 405.1030 - ALJ hearing procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false ALJ hearing procedures. 405.1030 Section 405.1030 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MEDICARE....1016 is tolled from the date of the hearing to the date the evidence is submitted. (e) Good cause does...

  20. 15 CFR 785.7 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Summary decision. 785.7 Section 785.7... INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL REGULATIONS ENFORCEMENT § 785.7 Summary decision. The ALJ may render a summary decision disposing of all or part of a proceeding on the motion of...

  1. 45 CFR 681.10 - What happens if a defendant fails to file an answer?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Procedures Following Service of A... that an initial decision will be issued. (c) The ALJ will assume the facts alleged in the complaint to be true and, if such facts establish liability under the statute, the ALJ will issue an initial...

  2. 45 CFR 681.10 - What happens if a defendant fails to file an answer?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Procedures Following Service of A... that an initial decision will be issued. (c) The ALJ will assume the facts alleged in the complaint to be true and, if such facts establish liability under the statute, the ALJ will issue an initial...

  3. 45 CFR 681.10 - What happens if a defendant fails to file an answer?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Procedures Following Service of A... that an initial decision will be issued. (c) The ALJ will assume the facts alleged in the complaint to be true and, if such facts establish liability under the statute, the ALJ will issue an initial...

  4. 45 CFR 681.10 - What happens if a defendant fails to file an answer?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Procedures Following Service of A... that an initial decision will be issued. (c) The ALJ will assume the facts alleged in the complaint to be true and, if such facts establish liability under the statute, the ALJ will issue an initial...

  5. 45 CFR 681.10 - What happens if a defendant fails to file an answer?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Procedures Following Service of A... that an initial decision will be issued. (c) The ALJ will assume the facts alleged in the complaint to be true and, if such facts establish liability under the statute, the ALJ will issue an initial...

  6. 45 CFR 150.423 - Communications with the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Communications with the ALJ. 150.423 Section 150.423 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.423...

  7. 20 CFR 355.18 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Authority of the ALJ. 355.18 Section 355.18 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES FOR FRAUDULENT CLAIMS OR STATEMENTS..., or hearing on motions in person or by telephone; and (14) Exercise such other authority as is...

  8. 76 FR 24802 - Eliminating the Decision Review Board

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-05-03

    ... review process. We replaced the Appeals Council with the DRB, which reviewed certain ALJ decisions before... process, or in the decision at the administrative law judge hearing and Appeals Council levels (in cases... revises the decision under Sec. 405.601 of this part; (d) You use the expedited appeals process described...

  9. 45 CFR 160.508 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Authority of the ALJ. 160.508 Section 160.508 Public Welfare DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE DATA STANDARDS AND RELATED... scope and timing of documentary discovery as permitted by this subpart; (8) Regulate the course of the...

  10. 42 CFR 405.1010 - When CMS or its contractors may participate in an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false When CMS or its contractors may participate in an... Hearings § 405.1010 When CMS or its contractors may participate in an ALJ hearing. (a) An ALJ may request, but may not require, CMS and/or one or more of its contractors to participate in any proceedings...

  11. 7 CFR 283.16 - Consolidation of issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Consolidation of issues. 283.16 Section 283.16... Claims of $50,000 or More § 283.16 Consolidation of issues. Similar issues involved in appeals by two or...) Disposition of consolidated issues. If the ALJ orders consolidation, the issues consolidated will be...

  12. 42 CFR 1005.4 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 5 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Authority of the ALJ. 1005.4 Section 1005.4 Public... documents at or in relation to hearings; (6) Rule on motions and other procedural matters; (7) Regulate the... Secretary; (5) Review the exercise of discretion by the OIG to exclude an individual or entity under section...

  13. 10 CFR 13.16 - Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Disqualification of reviewing official or ALJ. 13.16 Section 13.16 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.16 Disqualification... other reason for disqualification. (c) Such motion and affidavit shall be filed promptly upon the party...

  14. 42 CFR 423.2022 - Notice of a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... in § 423.2020(c) at their last known addresses, or given by personal service, unless the enrollee or... she must follow the procedures set forth at § 423.2020(i) for notifying the ALJ of his or her...

  15. 42 CFR 423.2022 - Notice of a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... otherwise transmitted to the enrollee and other potential participants, as provided in § 423.2020(c) at... procedures set forth at § 423.2020(i) for notifying the ALJ of his or her objections and for requesting an in...

  16. 42 CFR 423.2022 - Notice of a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... in § 423.2020(c) at their last known addresses, or given by personal service, unless the enrollee or... she must follow the procedures set forth at § 423.2020(i) for notifying the ALJ of his or her...

  17. 42 CFR 423.2022 - Notice of a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... otherwise transmitted to the enrollee and other potential participants, as provided in § 423.2020(c) at... procedures set forth at § 423.2020(i) for notifying the ALJ of his or her objections and for requesting an in...

  18. 42 CFR 423.2022 - Notice of a hearing before an ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... in § 423.2020(c) at their last known addresses, or given by personal service, unless the enrollee or... she must follow the procedures set forth at § 423.2020(i) for notifying the ALJ of his or her...

  19. 42 CFR 405.1018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 405... written evidence they wish to have considered at the hearing with the request for hearing (or within 10 calendar days of receiving the notice of hearing). (b) If a party submits written evidence later than 10...

  20. 42 CFR 405.1018 - Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Submitting evidence before the ALJ hearing. 405... written evidence they wish to have considered at the hearing with the request for hearing (or within 10 calendar days of receiving the notice of hearing). (b) If a party submits written evidence later than 10...

  1. 42 CFR 423.1042 - Hearing on new issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES... Penalties § 423.1042 Hearing on new issues. (a) Basic rules. (1) Within the time limits specified in..., provide a hearing on new issues that impinge on the rights of the affected party. (2) The ALJ may consider...

  2. 42 CFR 422.1042 - Hearing on new issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES....1042 Hearing on new issues. (a) Basic rules. (1) Within the time limits specified in paragraph (b) of... hearing on new issues that impinge on the rights of the affected party. (2) The ALJ may consider new...

  3. 42 CFR 423.2010 - When CMS, the IRE, or Part D plan sponsors may participate in an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Part D plan sponsor to participate must be made within 5 calendar days of receipt of the notice of hearing. (2) Within 5 calendar days of receipt of a request to participate in a non-expedited hearing, the... the timeframe designated by the ALJ. (g) The ALJ cannot draw any adverse inferences if CMS, the IRE...

  4. 42 CFR 423.2010 - When CMS, the IRE, or Part D plan sponsors may participate in an ALJ hearing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Part D plan sponsor to participate must be made within 5 calendar days of receipt of the notice of hearing. (2) Within 5 calendar days of receipt of a request to participate in a non-expedited hearing, the... the timeframe designated by the ALJ. (g) The ALJ cannot draw any adverse inferences if CMS, the IRE...

  5. 43 CFR 30.266 - When is a final decision issued?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PROCEDURES Tribal Purchase of Interests Under Special Statutes § 30.266 When is a final decision issued? This... subject to the tribal purchase option, the decision must so state. (3) A copy of the probate decision... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false When is a final decision issued? 30.266...

  6. 34 CFR 86.401 - What are the authority and responsibility of the ALJ?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ...) The ALJ regulates the course of the proceeding and conduct of the parties during the hearing and takes... limited to determining whether— (1) The IHE received any form of Federal financial assistance after...

  7. 29 CFR 1982.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1982... and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... has violated the law, the order will direct the respondent to take appropriate affirmative action to...

  8. 29 CFR 1982.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1982... and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... has violated the law, the order will direct the respondent to take appropriate affirmative action to...

  9. 29 CFR 1982.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1982... and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... has violated the law, the order will direct the respondent to take appropriate affirmative action to...

  10. 29 CFR 1982.109 - Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and orders of the administrative law judge. 1982... and orders of the administrative law judge. (a) The decision of the ALJ will contain appropriate... has violated the law, the order will direct the respondent to take appropriate affirmative action to...

  11. 29 CFR 502.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 502.41...-Hearing Procedures § 502.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare... shall also include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part...

  12. 29 CFR 501.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 501.41... § 501.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare, within 60 days after... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  13. 29 CFR 501.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 501.41... § 501.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare, within 60 days after... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  14. 29 CFR 503.50 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 503.50... Procedures § 503.50 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ will prepare, within 60 days... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  15. 29 CFR 501.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 501.41... § 501.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare, within 60 days after... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  16. 29 CFR 501.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 501.41... § 501.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare, within 60 days after... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  17. 29 CFR 503.50 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 503.50... Procedures § 503.50 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ will prepare, within 60 days... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  18. 29 CFR 502.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 502.41...-Hearing Procedures § 502.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare... shall also include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part...

  19. 29 CFR 502.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 502.41...-Hearing Procedures § 502.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare... shall also include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part...

  20. 29 CFR 502.41 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 502.41...-Hearing Procedures § 502.41 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ shall prepare... shall also include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part...

  1. 29 CFR 503.50 - Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. 503.50... Procedures § 503.50 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge. (a) The ALJ will prepare, within 60 days... include an appropriate order which may affirm, deny, reverse, or modify, in whole or in part, the...

  2. 43 CFR 45.32 - What happens if the ALJ becomes unavailable?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What happens if the ALJ becomes unavailable? 45.32 Section 45.32 Public Lands: Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior CONDITIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS IN FERC HYDROPOWER LICENSES Hearing Process General Provisions Related to Hearings § 45.32 What...

  3. 7 CFR 1.633 - Under what circumstances may the ALJ be disqualified?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Under what circumstances may the ALJ be disqualified? 1.633 Section 1.633 Agriculture Office of the Secretary of Agriculture ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS Conditions in FERC Hydropower Licenses General Provisions Related to Hearings § 1.633 Under what...

  4. 22 CFR 224.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... limited to any advantage, preference, privilege, license, permit, favorable decision, ruling, status, or... United States Government. Individual means a natural person. Initial decision means the written decision of the ALJ required by § 224.10 or § 224.37, and includes a revised initial decision issued following...

  5. 38 CFR 42.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... advantage, preference, privilege, license, permit, favorable decision, ruling, status, or loan guarantee.... Initial Decision means the written decision of the ALJ required by § 42.10 or § 42.37 of this part, and includes a revised initial decision issued following a remand or a motion for reconsideration...

  6. 12 CFR 308.510 - Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. 308.510 Section 308.510 Banks and Banking FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION PROCEDURE AND RULES OF PRACTICE RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Program Fraud Civil Remedies and Procedures § 308.510 Referral of...

  7. 12 CFR 308.510 - Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 5 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Referral of complaint and answer to the ALJ. 308.510 Section 308.510 Banks and Banking FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION PROCEDURE AND RULES OF PRACTICE RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE Program Fraud Civil Remedies and Procedures § 308.510 Referral of...

  8. 43 CFR 45.33 - Under what circumstances may the ALJ be disqualified?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Under what circumstances may the ALJ be disqualified? 45.33 Section 45.33 Public Lands: Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior CONDITIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS IN FERC HYDROPOWER LICENSES Hearing Process General Provisions Related to Hearings § 45.33 Under...

  9. 25 CFR 162.598 - When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision? 162.598 Section 162.598 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR..., and Enforcement § 162.598 When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision? BIA...

  10. 25 CFR 162.598 - When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision? 162.598 Section 162.598 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR..., and Enforcement § 162.598 When will BIA issue a decision on an appeal from a WSR leasing decision? BIA...

  11. 22 CFR 35.2 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ..., permit, favorable decision, ruling, status, or loan gurarantee. (e) Claim means any request, demand, or.... (k) Initial decision means the written decision of the ALJ required by § 35.10 or § 35.37, and includes a revised initial decision issued following a remand or a motion for reconsideration. (l...

  12. The Space Shuttle Disaster: Ethical Issues in Organizational Decision-Making.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kramer, Ronald C.; Jaksa, James A.

    Arguing that the issue of organizational decision making and bureaucratic responsibility in the use of technologies with potential for creating social harm should concern everyone, this paper explores the ethical issues raised by organizational decisions concerning the launch of the space shuttle "Challenger." The paper first describes a…

  13. Does Evidence Matter? How Middle School Students Make Decisions About Socioscientific Issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Emery, Katherine Beth

    People worldwide are faced with making decisions daily. While many decisions are quick (e.g., what clothes to wear), others, such as those about environmental issues (e.g., overfishing), require more thought and have less immediate outcomes. How one makes such decisions depends on how one interprets, evaluates, and uses evidence. The central objective of this thesis was to investigate environmental science literacy in general, and specifically, to understand how evidence and other factors impact decision-making. I conducted three main studies: First, I provide an example of how decision-making practices affect environmental systems and services through a descriptive case study of Atlantic bluefin tuna overfishing. I reviewed the scientific, historical and cultural factors contributing to a paradox of marine preservation in the Mediterranean and highlighted the need for education and informed decision-making about such social and ecological issues. This study motivated me to investigate how people make decisions about environmental issues. Second, I interviewed middle school students to understand how they describe and evaluate evidence hypothetically and in practice about environmental issues---a key component of environmental literacy. Students discussed how they would evaluate evidence and then were then given a packet containing multiple excerpts of information from conflicting stakeholders about an environmental issue and asked how they would make voting or purchasing decisions about these issues. Findings showed that students' ideas about evaluating evidence (e.g., by scientific and non-scientific criteria) match their practices in part. This study was unique in that it investigated how students evaluate evidence that (1) contradicts other evidence and (2), conflicts with the student's prior positions. Finally, I investigated whether middle school students used evidence when making decisions about socioscientific issues. I hypothesized that holding a strong

  14. 33 CFR 148.236 - What authority does an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) have?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What authority does an... Formal Hearings § 148.236 What authority does an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) have? When assigned to a... the proceeding for unsuitable conduct; (h) Exclude any person for disruptive behavior during the...

  15. 42 CFR 405.1028 - Prehearing case review of evidence submitted to the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Prehearing case review of evidence submitted to the ALJ. 405.1028 Section 405.1028 Public Health CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MEDICARE PROGRAM FEDERAL HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE AGED AND DISABLED Determinations, Redeterminations, Reconsiderations,...

  16. Integrating post-manufacturing issues into design and manufacturing decisions

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Eubanks, Charles F.

    1996-01-01

    An investigation is conducted on research into some of the fundamental issues underlying the design for manufacturing, service and recycling that affect engineering decisions early in the conceptual design phase of mechanical systems. The investigation focuses on a system-based approach to material selection, manufacturing methods and assembly processes related to overall product requirements, performance and life-cycle costs. Particular emphasis is placed on concurrent engineering decision support for post-manufacturing issues such as serviceability, recyclability, and product retirement.

  17. Ethically-based clinical decision-making in physical therapy: process and issues.

    PubMed

    Finch, Elspeth; Geddes, E Lynne; Larin, Hélène

    2005-01-01

    The identification and consideration of relevant ethical issues in clinical decision-making, and the education of health care professionals (HCPs) in these skills are key factors in providing quality health care. This qualitative study explores the way in which physical therapists (PTs) integrate ethical issues into clinical practice decisions and identifies ethical themes used by PTs. A purposive sample of eight PTs was asked to describe a recent ethically-based clinical decision. Transcribed interviews were coded and themes identified related to the following categories: 1) the integration of ethical issues in the clinical decision-making process, 2) patient welfare, 3) professional ethos of the PT, and 4) health care economics and business practices. Participants readily described clinical situations involving ethical issues but rarely identified specific conflicting ethical issues in their description. Ethical dilemmas were more frequently resolved when there were fewer emotional sequelae associated with the dilemma, and the PT had a clear understanding of professional ethos, valued patient autonomy, and explored a variety of alternative actions before implementing one. HCP students need to develop a clear professional ethos and an increased understanding of the economic factors that will present ethical issues in practice.

  18. 42 CFR 405.990 - Expedited access to judicial review.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... considers material and that are not disputed; and (2) Assert that the only factor precluding a decision... accordance with § 405.1002 and a decision, dismissal order, or remand order of the ALJ has not been issued; (B) MAC review in accordance with § 405.1102 and a final decision, dismissal order, or remand order...

  19. 10 CFR 708.34 - What is the process for issuing an appeal decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... appeal decision to all parties and to the Head of Field Element or EC Director having jurisdiction over... 10 Energy 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What is the process for issuing an appeal decision? 708.34..., Hearing and Decision Process § 708.34 What is the process for issuing an appeal decision? (a) If there is...

  20. 20 CFR 30.316 - How does the FAB issue a final decision on a claim?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false How does the FAB issue a final decision on a... Adjudicatory Process Hearings and Final Decisions on Claims § 30.316 How does the FAB issue a final decision on... waives any objections to all or part of the recommended decision, the FAB may issue a final decision...

  1. Risk communication, geoethics and decision science issues in Japan's disaster management system

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Sugimoto, M.

    2014-12-01

    Issues in Japan's disaster management system were revealed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station accident. Many important decisions were based on scientific data, but appear not to have sufficiently considered the uncertainties of the data and the societal aspects of the problems. The issues that arose show the need for scientists to appropriately deal with risk communication and geoethics and issues. This paper discusses necessity of education for risk communication, geoethics and decisions science in school before students become sicentific decision makers in future.

  2. Issue a Boil-Water Advisory or Wait for Definitive Information? A Decision Analysis

    PubMed Central

    Wagner, Michael M.; Wallstrom, Garrick L.; Onisko, Agnieszka

    2005-01-01

    Objective Study the decision to issue a boil-water advisory in response to a spike in sales of diarrhea remedies or wait 72 hours for the results of definitive testing of water and people. Methods Decision analysis. Results In the base-case analysis, the optimal decision is test-and-wait. If the cost of issuing a boil-water advisory is less than 13.92 cents per person per day, the optimal decision is to issue the boil-water advisory immediately. Conclusions Decisions based on surveillance data that are suggestive but not conclusive about the existence of a disease outbreak can be modeled. PMID:16779145

  3. 10 CFR 780.34 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Criteria for decision to issue a license. 780.34 Section 780.34 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PATENT COMPENSATION BOARD REGULATIONS Application for a License Pursuant to Section 153b(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.34 Criteria for decision to issue a...

  4. 10 CFR 780.34 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Criteria for decision to issue a license. 780.34 Section 780.34 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PATENT COMPENSATION BOARD REGULATIONS Application for a License Pursuant to Section 153b(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.34 Criteria for decision to issue a...

  5. 10 CFR 780.34 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Criteria for decision to issue a license. 780.34 Section 780.34 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PATENT COMPENSATION BOARD REGULATIONS Application for a License Pursuant to Section 153b(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.34 Criteria for decision to issue a...

  6. 10 CFR 780.34 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Criteria for decision to issue a license. 780.34 Section 780.34 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PATENT COMPENSATION BOARD REGULATIONS Application for a License Pursuant to Section 153b(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.34 Criteria for decision to issue a...

  7. 10 CFR 780.34 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Criteria for decision to issue a license. 780.34 Section 780.34 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PATENT COMPENSATION BOARD REGULATIONS Application for a License Pursuant to Section 153b(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.34 Criteria for decision to issue a...

  8. Beyond Precision: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in Minimizing Collateral Casualties

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2003-04-28

    possible contributions from moral judgment and decision making . As Fuller himself said, laws “can create the conditions essential for a rational ...BEYOND PRECISION: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in Minimizing Collateral Casualties Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and...28 APR 2003 2. REPORT TYPE N/A 3. DATES COVERED - 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Beyond Precision: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in

  9. 12 CFR 308.501 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) Initial decision means the written decision of the ALJ required by § 308.509 or § 308.536 of this subpart, and includes a revised initial decision issued following a remand or a motion for consideration. (l...”, and “causes to be made, presented, or submitted.” As the context requires, “making” or “made” likewise...

  10. The Effect of Using Socio-Scientific Issues Approach in Teaching Environmental Issues on Improving the Students' Ability of Making Appropriate Decisions towards These Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Zo'bi, Abdallah Salim

    2014-01-01

    This study aimed to identify nature of students' decisions patterns towards environmental issues and the possibility to improve these decisions during teaching process using Socio-Scientific Issues Approach. And to achieve this, the researcher prepared and developed tools of the study represented by a test of open questions focused on…

  11. Great Decisions 1990: Foreign Policy Issues Facing the Nation.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed.

    The 1990 Great Decisions program, part of an annual series on foreign policy issues, is intended to create better better public understanding through information and analyses of important international issues. Current information is presented so that participants may be stimulated toward discussion, form opinions and contribute to the policy…

  12. 29 CFR 1983.110 - Decision and orders of the Administrative Review Board.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 219 OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2008. Litigation § 1983.110... judicial review, of a decision of the ALJ, or a respondent alleging that the complaint was frivolous or... denying the complaint. If, upon the request of the respondent, the ARB determines that a complaint was...

  13. 29 CFR 1983.110 - Decision and orders of the Administrative Review Board.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... COMPLAINTS UNDER SECTION 219 OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2008. Litigation § 1983.110... judicial review, of a decision of the ALJ, or a respondent alleging that the complaint was frivolous or... denying the complaint. If, upon the request of the respondent, the ARB determines that a complaint was...

  14. 45 CFR 681.30 - Are ex parte communications between a party and the ALJ permitted?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Are ex parte communications between a party and... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Hearing Procedures § 681.30 Are ex parte communications between a party and the ALJ permitted? Ex parte communications between...

  15. How Students' Values Are Intertwined with Decisions in a Socio-Scientific Issue

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Demetra; Hadjichambis, Andreas Ch.; Korfiatis, Konstantinos

    2015-01-01

    The present study incorporated a scaffolding decision making procedure on an authentic environmental socio-scientific issue and investigated how students' decisions are intertwined with their values. Computer-based activities provided necessary information and allowed for the consideration of multiple aspects of the issue, the study of the effects…

  16. 77 FR 58150 - Rene Casanova, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-09-19

    ... matter of statutory interpretation logically encompass the factors listed in Sec. 824(a).'' ALJ at 32- 33... usual course of professional practice.'' (ALJ Ex. 1 at 2.) In particular, the OSC alleged that in... greater detail its allegations related to the visits by UC1 and UC2 (e.g., ALJ Ex. 4 at 6-16; ALJ Ex. 7 at...

  17. 24 CFR 180.705 - Attorney's fees and costs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 24 Housing and Urban Development 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Attorney's fees and costs. 180.705... Decision in Fair Housing Cases § 180.705 Attorney's fees and costs. Following the issuance of the final decision, any prevailing party, except HUD, may apply for attorney's fees and costs. The ALJ will issue an...

  18. 42 CFR 405.1042 - The administrative record.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... making the decision under review, including, but not limited to, claims, medical records, written... evidence. (3) A party may review the record at the hearing, or, if a hearing is not held, at any time before the ALJ's notice of decision is issued. (4) If a request for review is filed or the case is...

  19. 43 CFR 45.46 - What sanctions may the ALJ impose for failure to comply with discovery?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What sanctions may the ALJ impose for failure to comply with discovery? 45.46 Section 45.46 Public Lands: Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior CONDITIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS IN FERC HYDROPOWER LICENSES Hearing Process Prehearing...

  20. 7 CFR 1.646 - What sanctions may the ALJ impose for failure to comply with discovery?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false What sanctions may the ALJ impose for failure to comply with discovery? 1.646 Section 1.646 Agriculture Office of the Secretary of Agriculture ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS Conditions in FERC Hydropower Licenses Prehearing Conferences and Discovery § 1.646...

  1. Procedures for Handling Retaliation Complaints Under Section 31307 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). Final rule.

    PubMed

    2016-12-14

    On March 16, 2016, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) issued an interim final rule (IFR) that provided procedures for the Department's processing of complaints under the employee protection (retaliation or whistleblower) provisions of Section 31307 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). The IFR established procedures and time frames for the handling of retaliation complaints under MAP-21, including procedures and time frames for employee complaints to OSHA, investigations by OSHA, appeals of OSHA determinations to an administrative law judge (ALJ) for a hearing de novo, hearings by ALJs, review of ALJ decisions by the Administrative Review Board (ARB) (acting on behalf of the Secretary of Labor) and judicial review of the Secretary's final decision. It also set forth the Department's interpretations of the MAP-21 whistleblower provisions on certain matters. This final rule adopts, without change, the IFR.

  2. 42 CFR 423.2042 - The administrative record.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... marked as exhibits, the documents used in making the decision under review, including, but not limited to... admits. (3) An enrollee may review the record at the hearing, or, if a hearing is not held, at any time before the ALJ's notice of decision is issued. (4) If a request for review is filed, the complete record...

  3. Issues in Distance Education: A Primer for Higher Education Decision Makers

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Beaudoin, Michael

    2016-01-01

    This chapter presents an overview of current issues related to distance learning in higher education. It identifies central questions, issues, challenges, and opportunities that must be addressed by decision makers, as well as key attributes of effective leaders.

  4. Decision-support systems for natural-hazards and land-management issues

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Dinitz, Laura; Forney, William; Byrd, Kristin

    2012-01-01

    Scientists at the USGS Western Geographic Science Center are developing decision-support systems (DSSs) for natural-hazards and land-management issues. DSSs are interactive computer-based tools that use data and models to help identify and solve problems. These systems can provide crucial support to policymakers, planners, and communities for making better decisions about long-term natural hazards mitigation and land-use planning.

  5. Developing Decision-Making Skills for Socio-Scientific Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lee, Yeung Chung

    2007-01-01

    The ability to make informed decisions on science-related social issues is considered an important attribute of scientific literacy. Literature to inform science educators how to bridge the gap between rhetoric and practice--and to assist them in developing this attribute in their students--burgeons. In view of the great diversity of…

  6. Does Evidence Matter? How Middle School Students Make Decisions about Socioscientific Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Emery, Katherine Beth

    2013-01-01

    People worldwide are faced with making decisions daily. While many decisions are quick (e.g., what clothes to wear), others, such as those about environmental issues (e.g., overfishing), require more thought and have less immediate outcomes. How one makes such decisions depends on how one interprets, evaluates, and uses evidence. The central…

  7. The Organizational Decision Making Climate of Issues Management Programs: A Case Study.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wills, Sandra

    A study examined the decision making climate of organizations that are using issues management and what type of model of issues management is followed--theorists have been attempting to define issues management since it began appearing 20 year ago. Subjects, 112 males and 30 females who were professionals working in the area of issues management…

  8. 50 CFR 221.30 - What will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 10 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false What will the Department of Commerce's... FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARINE MAMMALS... will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral? Within 5 days after...

  9. 50 CFR 221.30 - What will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 10 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false What will the Department of Commerce's... FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARINE MAMMALS... will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral? Within 5 days after...

  10. 50 CFR 221.30 - What will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false What will the Department of Commerce's... FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARINE MAMMALS... will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral? Within 5 days after...

  11. 50 CFR 221.30 - What will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false What will the Department of Commerce's... FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MARINE MAMMALS... will the Department of Commerce's designated ALJ office do with a case referral? Within 5 days after...

  12. 21 CFR 1.405 - When does FDA have to issue a decision on an appeal?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false When does FDA have to issue a decision on an... Consumption What Is the Appeal Process for A Detention Order? § 1.405 When does FDA have to issue a decision... final decision within the 5-calendar day period after the appeal is filed. If FDA either fails to...

  13. 21 CFR 1.405 - When does FDA have to issue a decision on an appeal?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false When does FDA have to issue a decision on an... Consumption What Is the Appeal Process for A Detention Order? § 1.405 When does FDA have to issue a decision... final decision within the 5-calendar day period after the appeal is filed. If FDA either fails to...

  14. 21 CFR 1.405 - When does FDA have to issue a decision on an appeal?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false When does FDA have to issue a decision on an... Consumption What Is the Appeal Process for A Detention Order? § 1.405 When does FDA have to issue a decision... final decision within the 5-calendar day period after the appeal is filed. If FDA either fails to...

  15. 21 CFR 1.405 - When does FDA have to issue a decision on an appeal?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false When does FDA have to issue a decision on an... Consumption What Is the Appeal Process for A Detention Order? § 1.405 When does FDA have to issue a decision... final decision within the 5-calendar day period after the appeal is filed. If FDA either fails to...

  16. 21 CFR 1.405 - When does FDA have to issue a decision on an appeal?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false When does FDA have to issue a decision on an... Consumption What Is the Appeal Process for A Detention Order? § 1.405 When does FDA have to issue a decision... final decision within the 5-calendar day period after the appeal is filed. If FDA either fails to...

  17. 10 CFR 708.30 - What process does the Hearing Officer follow to issue an initial agency decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... initial agency decision? 708.30 Section 708.30 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DOE CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEE PROTECTION PROGRAM Investigation, Hearing and Decision Process § 708.30 What process does the Hearing Officer follow to issue an initial agency decision? (a) The Hearing Officer will issue an initial agency decision...

  18. Adults' decision-making about the electronic waste issue: The role of the nature of science conceptualizations and moral concerns in socio-scientific decision-making

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Yu, Yuqing

    Socio-scientific issues have become increasingly important in Science-Technology-Society (STS) education as a means to make science learning more relevant to students' lives. This study used the e-waste issue as a context to investigate two aspects of socio-scientific decision-making: (1) the relationship between the nature of science (NOS) conceptualizations and decision-making; and (2) moral concerns involved in the process of decision-making. This study contributes to the field of socio-scientific issue research and STS education in the following ways. First, it is the first study that performed meta-analysis to seek the relationship between the NOS understanding and decision-making. This study concludes that valuable NOS conceptualizations that are highly related to the socio-scientific issue under investigation, rather than general NOS understanding, exert statistically significant influences on decision-making. Second, this study empirically examined the Multiple Responses Model (MRM), which enables the transfer of qualitative NOS responses into quantitative data, and hence, inferential statistics. The current study justifies the significance of unidimensionality to the application of the MRM. It addresses the limitations associated with the MRM and provides implications for future use of the MRM in other contexts. Finally, the study explores the role of moral concerns in socio-scientific decision-making. Eight participants engaged in interviews that were designed to elicit their reactions and feelings regarding the issue of exporting e-waste to poor countries. Qualitative analyses demonstrated that moral considerations were significant influences on decision-making. In addition, participants' action responses revealed that they were motivated to take action to help the environment. The study has implications for socio-scientific issue studies in other contexts and for teacher education programs that use socio-scientific issues to advance teachers' reasoning

  19. Issues in Peer Review of the Scientific Basis for Regulatory Decisions.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    American Chemical Society, Washington, DC.

    This document is intended to provide a discussion of the issues that need to be addressed in the development of peer review guidelines, the options for addressing the issues, and a range of views about such options. The document focuses on peer review with regard to regulatory decisions and contains major sections which deal with: (1) what should…

  20. 75 FR 39154 - Setting the Time and Place for a Hearing Before an Administrative Law Judge

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-07-08

    ... independence, ALJs make their decisions free from agency pressure or pressure by a party to decide a particular... challenging job facing our ALJs: holding a sufficient number of hearings and rendering accurate, well-reasoned... rules exerts pressure on ALJs to decide claims in a particular way, precludes an ALJ from developing the...

  1. 78 FR 38363 - David A. Ruben, M.D.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-06-26

    ... ``continued registration is inconsistent with the public interest.'' ALJ Ex. 1, at 1 (citing 21 U.S.C. 823(f... Cause Order, which was unopposed by the Government. ALJ Ex. 2. The matter was then placed on the docket... Respondent one additional week to do so. ALJ Ex. 5. \\1\\ Notwithstanding of the date of the Show Cause Order...

  2. Students' Reasoning Processes in Making Decisions about an Authentic, Local Socio-Scientific Issue: Bat Conservation

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    Lee, Yeung Chung; Grace, Marcus

    2010-01-01

    Education for scientific literacy entails the development of scientific knowledge and the ability to apply this knowledge and value judgments to decisions about real-life issues. This paper reports an attempt to involve secondary level biology students in making decisions about an authentic socio-scientific issue--that of bat conservation--through…

  3. Autism Spectrum Disorder and New Jersey Administrative Law Decisions: An Analysis of Case Law Involving Public School Students

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    Barcadepone, Michael J.

    2012-01-01

    The purpose of this case study was to investigate existing New Jersey case law for the special education population classified as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and analyze New Jersey Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) decisions to identify why districts win or lose cases, adding to the limited body of research in New Jersey. In addition, the purpose…

  4. 42 CFR 93.523 - The Administrative Law Judge's ruling.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... POLICIES ON RESEARCH MISCONDUCT Opportunity To Contest ORI Findings of Research Misconduct and HHS Administrative Actions Hearing Process § 93.523 The Administrative Law Judge's ruling. (a) The ALJ shall issue a... decision in whole or in part is the final HHS action, unless debarment or suspension is an administrative...

  5. 42 CFR 93.523 - The Administrative Law Judge's ruling.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... POLICIES ON RESEARCH MISCONDUCT Opportunity To Contest ORI Findings of Research Misconduct and HHS Administrative Actions Hearing Process § 93.523 The Administrative Law Judge's ruling. (a) The ALJ shall issue a... decision in whole or in part is the final HHS action, unless debarment or suspension is an administrative...

  6. Understandings of the nature of science and decision making on science and technology-based issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Bell, Randy Lee

    Current reforms emphasize the development of scientific literacy as the principal goal of science education. The nature of science is considered a critical component of scientific literacy and is assumed to be an important factor in decision making on science and technology based issues. However, little research exists that delineates the role of the nature of science in decision making. The purpose of this investigation was to explicate the role of the nature of science in decision making on science and technology based issues and to delineate the reasoning and factors associated with these types of decisions. The 15-item, open-ended "Decision Making Questionnaire" (DMQ) based on four different scenarios concerning science and technology issues was developed to assess decision making. Twenty-one volunteer participants purposively selected from the faculty of geographically diverse universities completed the questionnaire and follow-up interviews. Participants were subsequently grouped according to their understandings of the nature of science, based on responses to a second open-ended questionnaire and follow-up interview. Profiles of each group's decision making were constructed, based on their previous responses to the DMQ and follow-up interviews. Finally, the two groups' decisions, decision making factors, and decision making strategies were compared. No differences were found between the decisions of the two groups, despite their disparate views of the nature of science. While their reasoning did not follow formal lines of argumentation, several influencing factors and general reasoning patterns were identified. Participants in both groups based their decisions primarily on personal values, morals/ethics, and social concerns. While all participants said they considered scientific evidence in their decision making, most did not require absolute "proof," even though Group B participants held more absolute conceptions of the nature of science. Overall, the

  7. Understandings of the nature of science and decision making on science and technology based issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Bell, Randy L.; Lederman, Norman G.

    2003-05-01

    The purpose of this investigation was to explicate the role of the nature of science in decision making on science and technology based issues and to delineate factors and reasoning associated with these types of decisions. Twenty-one volunteer participants purposively selected from the faculty of geographically diverse universities completed an open-ended questionnaire and follow-up interview designed to assess their decision making on science and technology based issues. Participants were subsequently placed in one of two groups based upon their divergent views of the nature of science as assessed by a second open-ended questionnaire and follow-up interview. Profiles of each group's decision making were then constructed, based on participants' previous responses to the decision making questionnaire and follow-up interviews. Finally, the two groups' decisions, decision influencing factors, and decision making strategies were compared. No differences were found between the decisions of the two groups, despite their disparate views of the nature of science. Participants in both groups based their decisions primarily on personal values, morals/ethics, and social concerns. While all participants considered scientific evidence in their decision making, most did not require absolute proof, even though many participants held absolute conceptions of the nature of science. Overall, the nature of science did not figure prominently in either group's decisions. These findings contrast with basic assumptions of current science education reform efforts and call for a re-examination of the goals of nature of science instruction. Developing better decision making skills - even on science and technology based issues - may involve other factors, including more value-based instruction and attention to intellectual/moral development.

  8. Great Decisions 1989. Foreign Policy Issues Facing the Nation.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed.

    This briefing book provides the only material needed to participate in the 1989 Great Decisions national non-partisan program of volunteer run discussions on U.S. foreign policy issues for classrooms and community groups. Everyone who participates in the program is invited to fill out the opinion ballots provided in the back of the book; the…

  9. EPA Growing DASEES (Decision Analysis For A Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society) - To Aid In Making Decisions On Complex Environmental Issues

    EPA Science Inventory

    Having a framework and tools to help sort through complicated environmental issues in an objective way would be useful to communities and risk managers, and all the stakeholders affected by these issues. This is one need that DASEES (Decision Analysis for a Sustainable En...

  10. 24 CFR 26.41 - Default.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...) General. The respondent may be found in default, upon motion, for failure to file a timely response to the Government's complaint. The motion shall include a copy of the complaint and a proposed default order, and... motion. (b) Default order. The ALJ shall issue a decision on the motion within 15 days after the...

  11. Making Informed Decisions: Management Issues Influencing Computers in the Classroom.

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    Strickland, James

    A number of noninstructional factors appear to determine the extent to which computers make a difference in writing instruction. Once computers have been purchased and installed, it is generally school administrators who make management decisions, often from an uninformed pedagogical orientation. Issues such as what hardware and software to buy,…

  12. 10 CFR 780.45 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... Pursuant to Section 153c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.45 Criteria for decision to issue a license... patent is of primary importance in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic...

  13. 10 CFR 780.45 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... Pursuant to Section 153c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.45 Criteria for decision to issue a license... patent is of primary importance in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic...

  14. 10 CFR 780.45 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... Pursuant to Section 153c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.45 Criteria for decision to issue a license... patent is of primary importance in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic...

  15. 10 CFR 780.45 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Pursuant to Section 153c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.45 Criteria for decision to issue a license... patent is of primary importance in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic...

  16. 10 CFR 780.45 - Criteria for decision to issue a license.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... Pursuant to Section 153c of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 § 780.45 Criteria for decision to issue a license... patent is of primary importance in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic...

  17. Students' Reasoning and Decision Making about a Socioscientific Issue: A Cross-Context Comparison

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    Lee, Yeung Chung; Grace, Marcus

    2012-01-01

    It has been argued that decision making about socioscientific issue (SSIs) necessitates informal reasoning, which involves multiperspective thinking and moral judgment. This study extends the scope of the literature concerning students' reasoning on SSIs to a cross-contextual study by comparing decisions made on avian flu by 12-13-year-old Chinese…

  18. GAIA - A New Approach To Decision Making on Climate Disruption Issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Paxton, L. J.; Weiss, M.; Schaefer, R. K.; Swartz, W. H.; Nix, M.; Strong, S. B.; Fountain, G. H.; Babin, S. M.; Pikas, C. K.; Parker, C. L.; Global Assimilation of InformationAction

    2011-12-01

    GAIA - the Global Assimilation of Information for Action program - provides a broadly extensible framework for enabling the development of a deeper understanding of the issues associated with climate disruption. The key notion of GAIA is that the global climate problem is so complex that a "system engineering" approach is needed in order to make it understandable. The key tenet of system engineering is to focus on requirements and to develop a cost-effective process for satisfying those requirements. To demonstrate this approach we focused first on the impact of climate disruption on public health. GAIA is described in some detail on our website (http://gaia.jhuapl.edu). Climate disruption is not just a scientific problem; one of the key issues that our community has is that of translating scientific results into knowledge that can be used to make informed decisions. In order to support decision makers we have to understand their issues and how to communicate with them. In this talk, we describe how we have built a community of interest that combines subject matter experts from diverse communities (public health, climate change, government, public policy, industry, etc) with policy makers and representatives from industry to develop, on a "level playing field", an understanding of each other's points of view and issues. The first application of this technology was the development of a workshop on Climate, Climate Change and Public Health held April 12-14, 2011. This paper describes our approach to going beyond the workshop environment to continue to engage the decision maker's community in a variety of ways that translate abstract scientific data into actionable information. Key ideas we will discuss include the development of social media, simulations of global/national/local environments affected by climate disruption, and visualizations of the monetary and health impacts of choosing not to address mitigation or adaptation to climate disruption.

  19. 75 FR 82069 - In the Matter of Certain Underground Cable and Pipe Locators; Notice of Commission Decision Not...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-12-29

    ... to review initial determinations (``IDs'') (Order Nos. 5 and 6) terminating the investigation based... underground cable and pipe locators that infringe certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,268,731. The complaint... response in support of the motions to terminate. On December 1, 2010, the ALJ issued Order Nos. 5 and 6...

  20. On the use of Bayesian decision theory for issuing natural hazard warnings

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Economou, T.; Stephenson, D. B.; Rougier, J. C.; Neal, R. A.; Mylne, K. R.

    2016-10-01

    Warnings for natural hazards improve societal resilience and are a good example of decision-making under uncertainty. A warning system is only useful if well defined and thus understood by stakeholders. However, most operational warning systems are heuristic: not formally or transparently defined. Bayesian decision theory provides a framework for issuing warnings under uncertainty but has not been fully exploited. Here, a decision theoretic framework is proposed for hazard warnings. The framework allows any number of warning levels and future states of nature, and a mathematical model for constructing the necessary loss functions for both generic and specific end-users is described. The approach is illustrated using one-day ahead warnings of daily severe precipitation over the UK, and compared to the current decision tool used by the UK Met Office. A probability model is proposed to predict precipitation, given ensemble forecast information, and loss functions are constructed for two generic stakeholders: an end-user and a forecaster. Results show that the Met Office tool issues fewer high-level warnings compared with our system for the generic end-user, suggesting the former may not be suitable for risk averse end-users. In addition, raw ensemble forecasts are shown to be unreliable and result in higher losses from warnings.

  1. On the use of Bayesian decision theory for issuing natural hazard warnings.

    PubMed

    Economou, T; Stephenson, D B; Rougier, J C; Neal, R A; Mylne, K R

    2016-10-01

    Warnings for natural hazards improve societal resilience and are a good example of decision-making under uncertainty. A warning system is only useful if well defined and thus understood by stakeholders. However, most operational warning systems are heuristic: not formally or transparently defined. Bayesian decision theory provides a framework for issuing warnings under uncertainty but has not been fully exploited. Here, a decision theoretic framework is proposed for hazard warnings. The framework allows any number of warning levels and future states of nature, and a mathematical model for constructing the necessary loss functions for both generic and specific end-users is described. The approach is illustrated using one-day ahead warnings of daily severe precipitation over the UK, and compared to the current decision tool used by the UK Met Office. A probability model is proposed to predict precipitation, given ensemble forecast information, and loss functions are constructed for two generic stakeholders: an end-user and a forecaster. Results show that the Met Office tool issues fewer high-level warnings compared with our system for the generic end-user, suggesting the former may not be suitable for risk averse end-users. In addition, raw ensemble forecasts are shown to be unreliable and result in higher losses from warnings.

  2. On the use of Bayesian decision theory for issuing natural hazard warnings

    PubMed Central

    Stephenson, D. B.; Rougier, J. C.; Neal, R. A.; Mylne, K. R.

    2016-01-01

    Warnings for natural hazards improve societal resilience and are a good example of decision-making under uncertainty. A warning system is only useful if well defined and thus understood by stakeholders. However, most operational warning systems are heuristic: not formally or transparently defined. Bayesian decision theory provides a framework for issuing warnings under uncertainty but has not been fully exploited. Here, a decision theoretic framework is proposed for hazard warnings. The framework allows any number of warning levels and future states of nature, and a mathematical model for constructing the necessary loss functions for both generic and specific end-users is described. The approach is illustrated using one-day ahead warnings of daily severe precipitation over the UK, and compared to the current decision tool used by the UK Met Office. A probability model is proposed to predict precipitation, given ensemble forecast information, and loss functions are constructed for two generic stakeholders: an end-user and a forecaster. Results show that the Met Office tool issues fewer high-level warnings compared with our system for the generic end-user, suggesting the former may not be suitable for risk averse end-users. In addition, raw ensemble forecasts are shown to be unreliable and result in higher losses from warnings. PMID:27843399

  3. 20 CFR 260.7 - Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held. 260.7 Section 260.7 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT REQUESTS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND APPEALS WITHIN THE BOARD § 260.7 Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is...

  4. 20 CFR 260.7 - Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held. 260.7 Section 260.7 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT REQUESTS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND APPEALS WITHIN THE BOARD § 260.7 Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is...

  5. 20 CFR 260.7 - Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is not held. 260.7 Section 260.7 Employees' Benefits RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT REQUESTS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND APPEALS WITHIN THE BOARD § 260.7 Time limits for issuing a decision when a hearing is...

  6. Effects of Direct and Indirect Instruction on Fostering Decision-Making Competence in Socioscientific Issues

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    Bottcher, Florian; Meisert, Anke

    2013-01-01

    In this study the effects of different learning environments on the promotion of decision-making competence for the socioscientific issue of genetically modified crops is investigated. The comparison focuses on direct vs. indirect instructions. Therefore on the one hand a sophisticated decision-making strategy was presented to the directly…

  7. Effects of Direct and Indirect Instruction on Fostering Decision-Making Competence in Socioscientific Issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Böttcher, Florian; Meisert, Anke

    2013-04-01

    In this study the effects of different learning environments on the promotion of decision-making competence for the socioscientific issue of genetically modified crops is investigated. The comparison focuses on direct vs. indirect instructions. Therefore on the one hand a sophisticated decision-making strategy was presented to the directly instructed experimental group (1) and had to be applied correctly. On the other hand indirectly instructed students had to invent an appropriate strategy by themselves (2) based on the given information and the structure of the problem context. Group discussions are analysed qualitatively in order (1) to outline how the given strategy was understood and its results were reflected on by the students and (2) to explore the characteristics of invented strategies and their degree of complexity. Results indicate that the direct instruction of complex decision-making strategies may lead to a lack of understanding of the decision process when the given strategy is applied and therefore may cause rejection of the final decision. Indirectly instructed students were able to invent sophisticated decision-making strategies containing compensatory trade-offs. It is concluded that when directly instructing complex decision-making strategies, essential parts of reflection have to be integrated in order to gain greater transparency. Accordingly, empirical evidence has been found to consider indirect instruction as a possible way to foster decision-making strategies for complex socioscientific issues even if compensatory procedures are considered to be necessary.

  8. 20 CFR 30.320 - Can a claim be reopened after the FAB has issued a final decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Can a claim be reopened after the FAB has... AMENDED Adjudicatory Process Reopening Claims § 30.320 Can a claim be reopened after the FAB has issued a final decision? (a) At any time after the FAB has issued a final decision pursuant to § 30.316, and...

  9. 42 CFR 422.612 - Judicial review.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Judicial review. 422.612 Section 422.612 Public... Judicial review. (a) Review of ALJ's decision. Any party, including the MA organization, may request judicial review (upon notifying the other parties) of an ALJ's decision if— (1) The Board denied the party...

  10. 40 CFR 155.58 - Procedures for issuing a decision on a registration review case.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ...) State whether it believes that additional data are needed and, if so, describe what is needed. A FIFRA 3(c)(2)(B) notice requiring such data may be issued in conjunction with a proposed or final decision... remain open until all actions required in the final decision on the registration review case have been...

  11. 40 CFR 155.58 - Procedures for issuing a decision on a registration review case.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ...) State whether it believes that additional data are needed and, if so, describe what is needed. A FIFRA 3(c)(2)(B) notice requiring such data may be issued in conjunction with a proposed or final decision... remain open until all actions required in the final decision on the registration review case have been...

  12. 20 CFR 655.171 - Appeals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... employer, the CO, the OFLC Administrator and DHS by means normally assuring next-day delivery. The ALJ's..., employers may request an administrative review or de novo hearing before an ALJ of a decision by the CO. In such cases, the CO will send a copy of the OFLC administrative file to the Chief ALJ by means normally...

  13. 20 CFR 655.171 - Appeals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... employer, the CO, the OFLC Administrator and DHS by means normally assuring next-day delivery. The ALJ's..., employers may request an administrative review or de novo hearing before an ALJ of a decision by the CO. In such cases, the CO will send a copy of the OFLC administrative file to the Chief ALJ by means normally...

  14. 42 CFR 405.1889 - Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. 405.1889 Section 405.1889 Public Health CENTERS FOR... revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. (a) If a revision is...

  15. 42 CFR 405.1889 - Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. 405.1889 Section 405.1889 Public Health CENTERS FOR... revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. (a) If a revision is...

  16. 42 CFR 405.1889 - Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. 405.1889 Section 405.1889 Public Health CENTERS FOR... revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. (a) If a revision is...

  17. 42 CFR 405.1889 - Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. 405.1889 Section 405.1889 Public Health CENTERS FOR... revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. (a) If a revision is...

  18. 42 CFR 405.1889 - Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Effect of a revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. 405.1889 Section 405.1889 Public Health CENTERS FOR... revision; issue-specific nature of appeals of revised determinations and decisions. (a) If a revision is...

  19. 76 FR 66972 - Linda Sue Cheek, M.D., Decision and Order

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    2011-10-28

    ... only pain management doctor reasonably available in southwestern Virginia,'' ALJ at 34; here again... the hearing. (See ALJ Exs. 3 & 4.) Both parties called witnesses to testify and introduced documentary... practice to include a specialty in pain management and alternative medicine. Since 1998, Respondent has...

  20. Global and Long-Distance Decision-Making, Environmental Issues and Network Potentials.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Samuelson, K.; And Others

    FID/TM, an international group concerned with theory and methods of systems cybernetics and information networks, held a panel session at the 34th Annual American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Meeting in November 1971. This report contains the seven papers presented by that panel, concerning issues in global decision-making and the role…

  1. Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Decision-Analytic Aids

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1984-01-01

    Ze! &rt s t.>.. address the issues -it each of the three interfaces DECISION-MAKIN!; ORGANIZATIN -- - -- - - -- ----------: USER DEAISID ’ in. I ENVI...user’s unique personal characteristics, and has no personal credibility in a leadership role. In order to maintain motivation and atten- tion, the...for selecting R&D projects was formally adopted but not used because the technique conflicted with the highly per- sonal leadership style of the

  2. 76 FR 28809 - In the Matter of Certain Mems Devices and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission Decision...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-05-18

    ... review: (1) The ALJ's construction of the claim term ``oven'' relating to both the `614 and `942 patents; (2) the ALJ's construction of the claim term ``sawing'' relating to both the `614 and `942 patents... under review including the following: (1) The ALJ's construction of the claim term ``oven'' relating to...

  3. Integrating Socio-Scientific Issues to Enhance the Bioethical Decision-Making Skills of High School Students

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    Gutierez, Sally B.

    2015-01-01

    Scientific literacy has been focused on the construction of students' knowledge to use appropriate and meaningful concepts, critically think, and make balanced, well-informed decisions relevant to their lives. This study presents the effects of integrating socio-scientific issues to enhance the bioethical decision-making skills of biology…

  4. End-of-life issues: difficult decisions and dealing with grief.

    PubMed

    Loomis, Beth

    2009-06-01

    People face many challenging psychosocial and spiritual issues as they approach the end of their lives, and caregivers need advice on how to help them. Choosing among treatment options, handling grief, addressing unfinished business, and coping with loss of self-sufficiency are difficult for the dying person, and caregivers must deal with surrogate decision making, raw emotions in the patient and in family members, and the caregivers' own grief. Listening and coping skills are discussed.

  5. 20 CFR 655.1245 - Who can appeal the ALJ's decision and what is the process?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ..., DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES What are the Department's... what is the process? (a) The Administrator or any interested party desiring review of the decision and...

  6. 76 FR 4938 - Kermit B. Gosnell, M.D.; Decision and Order

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    2011-01-27

    ... not submitted a renewal application, let alone a timely one, which would have kept his registration in... registration, and, further, that he had waived his right to a hearing under 21 CFR 1301.43(d). The ALJ... agency action. I adopt the ALJ's finding that Respondent has waived his right to participate in the...

  7. Training in Decision-making Strategies: An approach to enhance students' competence to deal with socio-scientific issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gresch, Helge; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Bögeholz, Susanne

    2013-10-01

    Dealing with socio-scientific issues in science classes enables students to participate productively in controversial discussions concerning ethical topics, such as sustainable development. In this respect, well-structured decision-making processes are essential for elaborate reasoning. To foster decision-making competence, a computer-based programme was developed that trains secondary school students (grades 11-13) in decision-making strategies. The main research question is: does training students to use these strategies foster decision-making competence? In addition, the influence of meta-decision aids was examined. Students conducted a task analysis to select an appropriate strategy prior to the decision-making process. Hence, the second research question is: does combining decision-making training with a task analysis enhance decision-making competence at a higher rate? To answer these questions, 386 students were tested in a pre-post-follow-up control-group design that included two training groups (decision-making strategies/decision-making strategies combined with a task analysis) and a control group (decision-making with additional ecological information instead of strategic training). An open-ended questionnaire was used to assess decision-making competence in situations related to sustainable development. The decision-making training led to a significant improvement in the post-test and the follow-up, which was administered three months after the training. Long-term effects on the quality of the students' decisions were evident for both training groups. Gains in competence when reflecting upon the decision-making processes of others were found, to a lesser extent, in the training group that received the additional meta-decision training. In conclusion, training in decision-making strategies is a promising approach to deal with socio-scientific issues related to sustainable development.

  8. 77 FR 47096 - Physicians Pharmacy, L.L.C.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-08-07

    ... true that the DI testified regarding the prescribing practices of Dr. Paul Volkman, an ex-registrant... would be inconsistent with the public interest as that term is defined in 21 U.S.C. 823(f). (ALJ Ex. 1... of facts and law'' in support of the OSC. ALJ Ex.1, at 1. 1. On January 12, 2011, [Respondent...

  9. 42 CFR 93.502 - Appointment of the Administrative Law Judge and scientific expert.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE POLICIES ON RESEARCH MISCONDUCT Opportunity To Contest ORI Findings of Research... expertise to assist the ALJ in evaluating scientific or technical issues related to the findings of research misconduct. (1) On the ALJ's or a party's motion to appoint an expert, the ALJ must give the parties an...

  10. 42 CFR 93.502 - Appointment of the Administrative Law Judge and scientific expert.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE POLICIES ON RESEARCH MISCONDUCT Opportunity To Contest ORI Findings of Research... expertise to assist the ALJ in evaluating scientific or technical issues related to the findings of research misconduct. (1) On the ALJ's or a party's motion to appoint an expert, the ALJ must give the parties an...

  11. Application of construal level and value-belief norm theories to undergraduate decision-making on a wildlife socio-scientific issue

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Sutter, A. McKinzie; Dauer, Jenny M.; Forbes, Cory T.

    2018-06-01

    One aim of science education is to develop scientific literacy for decision-making in daily life. Socio-scientific issues (SSI) and structured decision-making frameworks can help students reach these objectives. This research uses value belief norm (VBN) theory and construal level theory (CLT) to explore students' use of personal values in their decision-making processes and the relationship between abstract and concrete problematization and their decision-making. Using mixed methods, we conclude that the level of abstraction with which students problematise a prairie dog agricultural production and ecosystem preservation issue has a significant relationship to the values students used in the decision-making process. However, neither abstraction of the problem statement nor students' surveyed value orientations were significantly related to students' final decisions. These results may help inform teachers' understanding of students and their use of a structured-decision making tool in a classroom, and aid researchers in understanding if these tools help students remain objective in their analyses of complex SSIs.

  12. Ethical challenges with hemodialysis patients who lack decision-making capacity: behavioral issues, surrogate decision-makers, and end-of-life situations.

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    Feely, Molly A; Albright, Robert C; Thorsteinsdottir, Björg; Moss, Alvin H; Swetz, Keith M

    2014-09-01

    Hemodialysis (HD) is routinely offered to patients with end-stage renal disease in the United States who are ineligible for other renal replacement modalities. The frequency of HD among the US population is greater than all other countries, except Taiwan and Japan. In US, patients are often dialyzed irrespective of age, comorbidities, prognosis, or decision-making capacity. Determination of when patients can no longer dialyze is variable and can be dialysis-center specific. Determinants may be related to progressive comorbidities and frailty, mobility or access issues, patient self-determination, or an inability to tolerate the treatment safely for any number of reasons (e.g., hypotension, behavioral issues). Behavioral issues may impact the safety of not only patients themselves, but also those around them. In this article the authors present the case of an elderly patient on HD with progressive cognitive impairment and combative behavior placing him and others at risk of physical harm. The authors discuss the medical, ethical, legal, and psychosocial challenges to care of such patients who lack decision-making capacity with a focus on variable approaches by regions and culture. This manuscript provides recommendations and highlights resources to assist nephrologists, dialysis personnel, ethics consultants, and palliative medicine teams in managing such patients to resolve conflict.

  13. Training in Decision-Making Strategies: An Approach to Enhance Students' Competence to Deal with Socio-Scientific Issues

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    Gresch, Helge; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Bögeholz, Susanne

    2013-01-01

    Dealing with socio-scientific issues in science classes enables students to participate productively in controversial discussions concerning ethical topics, such as sustainable development. In this respect, well-structured decision-making processes are essential for elaborate reasoning. To foster decision-making competence, a computer-based…

  14. Adults' Decision-Making about the Electronic Waste Issue: The Role of the Nature of Science Conceptualizations and Moral Concerns in Socio-Scientific Decision-Making

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    Yu, Yuqing

    2010-01-01

    Socio-scientific issues have become increasingly important in Science-Technology-Society (STS) education as a means to make science learning more relevant to students' lives. This study used the e-waste issue as a context to investigate two aspects of socio-scientific decision-making: (1) the relationship between the nature of science (NOS)…

  15. 34 CFR 366.42 - When does a Director issue a final written decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false When does a Director issue a final written decision? 366.42 Section 366.42 Education Regulations of the Offices of the Department of Education (Continued) OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT...

  16. 34 CFR 366.42 - When does a Director issue a final written decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 34 Education 2 2011-07-01 2010-07-01 true When does a Director issue a final written decision? 366.42 Section 366.42 Education Regulations of the Offices of the Department of Education (Continued) OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT...

  17. 13 CFR 134.714 - When must the Judge issue his or her decision?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Appeals From Women-Owned Small Business Concern (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged WOSB Concern (EDWOSB... 13 Business Credit and Assistance 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false When must the Judge issue his or her decision? 134.714 Section 134.714 Business Credit and Assistance SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION...

  18. Creating and sharing clinical decision support content with Web 2.0: Issues and examples.

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    Wright, Adam; Bates, David W; Middleton, Blackford; Hongsermeier, Tonya; Kashyap, Vipul; Thomas, Sean M; Sittig, Dean F

    2009-04-01

    Clinical decision support is a powerful tool for improving healthcare quality and patient safety. However, developing a comprehensive package of decision support interventions is costly and difficult. If used well, Web 2.0 methods may make it easier and less costly to develop decision support. Web 2.0 is characterized by online communities, open sharing, interactivity and collaboration. Although most previous attempts at sharing clinical decision support content have worked outside of the Web 2.0 framework, several initiatives are beginning to use Web 2.0 to share and collaborate on decision support content. We present case studies of three efforts: the Clinfowiki, a world-accessible wiki for developing decision support content; Partners Healthcare eRooms, web-based tools for developing decision support within a single organization; and Epic Systems Corporation's Community Library, a repository for sharing decision support content for customers of a single clinical system vendor. We evaluate the potential of Web 2.0 technologies to enable collaborative development and sharing of clinical decision support systems through the lens of three case studies; analyzing technical, legal and organizational issues for developers, consumers and organizers of clinical decision support content in Web 2.0. We believe the case for Web 2.0 as a tool for collaborating on clinical decision support content appears strong, particularly for collaborative content development within an organization.

  19. On-line social decision making and antisocial behavior: some essential but neglected issues.

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    Fontaine, Reid Griffith

    2008-01-01

    The last quarter century has witnessed considerable progress in the scientific study of social information processing (SIP) and aggressive behavior in children. SIP research has shown that social decision making in youth is particularly predictive of antisocial behavior, especially as children enter and progress through adolescence. In furtherance of this research, more sophisticated, elaborate models of on-line social decision making have been developed, by which various domains of evaluative judgment are hypothesized to account for both responsive decision making and behavior, as well as self-initiated, instrumental functioning. However, discussions of these models have neglected a number of key issues. In particular, the roles of nonconscious cognitive factors, learning and development, impulsivity and behavioral disinhibition, emotion, and other internal and external factors (e.g., pharmacological influences and audience effects) have been largely absent from scholarly writings. In response, this article introduces discussion of these factors and reviews their possible roles in on-line social decision making and antisocial behavior in youth.

  20. Implementation of Socioscientific Issues Instruction to Fostering Students’ Decision Making Based Gender on Environmental Pollution

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Rizal, H. P.; Siahaan, P.; Yuliani, G.

    2017-02-01

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the implementation socioscientific issues (SSI) instruction to examine students’ decision making based gender. Selection of environmental problem based on the consideration this issue has potential to evaluate from various scientific disciplines and may initiate to make decision. The participant was students grade VII in South Sulawesi. Pre experiment method was utilized in study with one group pre-test and post-test design. The instrument used in this study comprised of open-ended question, observation sheets for group discussion, sheet for interview and observation sheet of implementation instruction in class. The result indicated that instruction has been implemented successfully. It was found that pre-test and post-test was fostered with N-gain for male and female in medium category. Based on independent t test was found there was no difference improvement of decision making between male and female students. The group showed there was no difference between male group and female group, but a significant difference was noted in mix group. Students and teacher give positive response to the implementation of instruction. It is concluded that science instruction based SSI can be implemented to foster male and female decision making by forming group discussion.

  1. Cable Television In Metro Denver. Background and Policy Issues For Local Decision-Making.

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    Bortz, Paul I.; Gilmore, John S.

    A general introduction to cable television (CATV) in the metropolitan Denver area, with a focus on policy issues for local decision-making, is provided. The overview is based upon a literature review, information presented at conferences, local surveys of CATV, interviews with people involved with CATV, and on-going research conducted by the…

  2. 40 CFR 155.58 - Procedures for issuing a decision on a registration review case.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Procedures for issuing a decision on a registration review case. 155.58 Section 155.58 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED) PESTICIDE PROGRAMS REGISTRATION STANDARDS AND REGISTRATION REVIEW Registration Review Procedures...

  3. Beliefs and expectancies in legal decision making: an introduction to the Special Issue

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    McAuliff, Bradley D.; Bornstein, Brian H.

    2013-01-01

    This introduction describes what the co-editors believe readers can expect in this Special Issue. After beliefs and expectancies are defined, examples of how these constructs influence human thought, feeling, and behavior in legal settings are considered. Brief synopses are provided for the Special Issue papers on beliefs and expectancies regarding alibis, children’s testimony behavior, eyewitness testimony, confessions, sexual assault victims, judges’ decisions in child protection cases, and attorneys’ beliefs about jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offender culpability. Areas for future research are identified, and readers are encouraged to discover new ways that beliefs and expectancies operate in the legal system. PMID:24348006

  4. 50 CFR 23.33 - How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false How is the decision made to issue or deny... INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) Application Procedures, Criteria, and Conditions § 23.33 How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document? (a) Upon...

  5. 50 CFR 23.33 - How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false How is the decision made to issue or deny... INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) Application Procedures, Criteria, and Conditions § 23.33 How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document? (a) Upon...

  6. 50 CFR 23.33 - How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false How is the decision made to issue or deny... INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) Application Procedures, Criteria, and Conditions § 23.33 How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document? (a) Upon...

  7. 50 CFR 23.33 - How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 8 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false How is the decision made to issue or deny... INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES) Application Procedures, Criteria, and Conditions § 23.33 How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document? (a) Upon...

  8. 50 CFR 23.33 - How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 6 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false How is the decision made to issue or deny..., PURCHASE, BARTER, EXPORTATION, AND IMPORTATION OF WILDLIFE AND PLANTS (CONTINUED) CONVENTION ON... Conditions § 23.33 How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document? (a) Upon...

  9. 42 CFR 423.1976 - Judicial review.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Judicial review. 423.1976 Section 423.1976 Public...) MEDICARE PROGRAM VOLUNTARY MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review, and Judicial Review § 423.1976 Judicial review. (a) Review of ALJ's decision. The enrollee may request judicial...

  10. Students' Use of Decision-Making Strategies with Regard to Socioscientific Issues: An Application of the Rasch Partial Credit Model

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    Eggert, Sabina; Bogeholz, Susanne

    2010-01-01

    Decision making about socioscientific issues is an important aspect of modern science education worldwide. Among the many topics that represent socioscientific issues, issues relating to the sustainable development of our environment are one crucial topic. However, difficulties exist with respect to the assessment of teaching outcomes related to…

  11. 42 CFR 426.489 - Board remands.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... decision; and (2) Explains why the case is being remanded and the specific actions ordered by the Board. (b) Action by an ALJ on remand. An ALJ takes any action that is ordered by the Board and may take any additional action that is not inconsistent with the Board's remand order. ...

  12. 43 CFR 5.10 - Can I appeal a decision not to issue a permit?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Can I appeal a decision not to issue a permit? 5.10 Section 5.10 Public Lands: Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior COMMERCIAL FILMING AND SIMILAR PROJECTS AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON CERTAIN AREAS UNDER DEPARTMENT JURISDICTION Areas...

  13. 43 CFR 5.10 - Can I appeal a decision not to issue a permit?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 43 Public Lands: Interior 1 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Can I appeal a decision not to issue a permit? 5.10 Section 5.10 Public Lands: Interior Office of the Secretary of the Interior COMMERCIAL FILMING AND SIMILAR PROJECTS AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON CERTAIN AREAS UNDER DEPARTMENT JURISDICTION Areas...

  14. 76 FR 25707 - In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission Decision...

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    ... review of the ALJ's determination concerning the ALJ's findings on claim construction, infringement... Commission has also determined to review the ID's construction of the ``extracting'' limitation of claim 8 as... construction of the claim limitation ``accumulatively averaging working conditions of lots previously processed...

  15. 20 CFR 655.1315 - Administrative review and de novo hearing before an administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ...) Consideration. Whenever an employer has requested an administrative review before an ALJ of a decision by the CO..., the CO will send a certified copy of the ETA case file to the Chief Administrative Law Judge by means normally assuring next-day delivery. The Chief Administrative Law Judge will immediately assign an ALJ...

  16. 20 CFR 655.1315 - Administrative review and de novo hearing before an administrative law judge.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...) Consideration. Whenever an employer has requested an administrative review before an ALJ of a decision by the CO..., the CO will send a certified copy of the ETA case file to the Chief Administrative Law Judge by means normally assuring next-day delivery. The Chief Administrative Law Judge will immediately assign an ALJ...

  17. Survey of controversial issues of end-of-life treatment decisions in Korea: similarities and discrepancies between healthcare professionals and the general public

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    2013-01-01

    Introduction End-of-life (EOL) treatment issues have recently gained societal attention after the Korean Supreme Court’s ruling that the presumed wishes of an elderly woman in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) should be honored. We tried to evaluate what Koreans thought about controversial issues regarding EOL treatments. Methods We surveyed Koreans with the following questions: 1) are ventilator-dependent PVS patients candidates for end-of life treatment decisions? 2) Is withholding and withdrawing EOL treatment the same thing? 3) In an unconscious, terminally ill patient, whose wishes are unknown, how should EOL decisions be made? 4) How should we settle disagreement amongst medical staff and the patient’s family on EOL decisions? Results One thousand Koreans not working in healthcare and five hundred healthcare professionals responded to the survey. Fifty-seven percent of Koreans not working in healthcare and sixty seven percent of Korean healthcare professionals agreed that ventilator-dependent PVS patients are candidates for EOL treatment decisions. One quarter of all respondents regarded withholding and withdrawing EOL treatment as equal. Over 50% thought that EOL treatment decisions should be made through discussions between the physician and the patient’s family. For conflict resolution, 75% of Koreans not working in healthcare preferred direct settlement between the medical staff and the patient’s family while 55% of healthcare professionals preferred the hospital ethics committee. Conclusions Unsettled issues in Korea regarding EOL treatment decision include whether to include ventilator-dependent PVS patients as candidates of EOL treatment decision and how to sort out disagreements regarding EOL treatment decisions. Koreans viewed withholding and withdrawing EOL treatment issues differently. PMID:24093519

  18. 20 CFR 655.1318 - Debarment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Administrator, OFLC finds that the employer substantially violated a material term or condition of its temporary... ALJ, petition the ARB to review the decision. Copies of the petition must be served on all parties and on the ALJ. The ARB must decide whether to accept the petition within 30 days of receipt. If the ARB...

  19. 76 FR 18511 - Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh Figs From Chile into the...

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    2011-04-04

    ... United States of fresh figs, pomegranates, and baby kiwi fruit from Chile. We solicited comments on the... decision to issue permits for the importation of fresh pomegranates and baby kiwi from Chile into the... delayed our decision on figs and addressed only pomegranates and baby kiwi from Chile in our May 2010...

  20. Application of Construal Level and Value-Belief Norm Theories to Undergraduate Decision-Making on a Wildlife Socio-Scientific Issue

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Sutter, A. McKinzie; Dauer, Jenny M.; Forbes, Cory T.

    2018-01-01

    One aim of science education is to develop scientific literacy for decision-making in daily life. Socio-scientific issues (SSI) and structured decision-making frameworks can help students reach these objectives. This research uses value belief norm (VBN) theory and construal level theory (CLT) to explore students' use of personal values in their…

  1. What quality-of-life issues do women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) consider important when making treatment decisions?

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    Mercieca-Bebber, Rebecca; King, Madeleine T; Boxer, Miriam M; Spillane, Andrew; Winters, Zoë E; Butow, Phyllis N; McPherson, Joan; Rutherford, Claudia

    2017-09-01

    To explore quality-of-life (QOL) issues considered important when deciding on treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Breast Cancer Network of Australia members diagnosed with DCIS in the past 5 years (self-identified) participated in an online survey (Sep-Nov 2015). From a list of 74 QOL issues, participants selected all issues they experienced during DCIS diagnosis, treatment or recovery, then the issues they felt important to making a DCIS treatment decision, and completed the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ). Associations between QOL issues and self-reported treatment received were assessed with χ 2 tests. The primary analysis included 38 participants treated with breast-conserving surgery (n = 15), mastectomy (n = 23), and/or radiotherapy (n = 14). Fatigue-related symptoms (82%) and "fear of progression" (50%) were the most frequently-experienced issues. When deciding on DCIS treatment, the most important consideration was "fear of progression" (50%). A higher proportion of mastectomy (compared to non-mastectomy) patients considered "difficultly looking at yourself naked" (p = 0.03). Radiotherapy (compared to non-radiotherapy) patients were more likely to consider "feeling unwell" important (p = 0.006). Results were similar in a sensitivity analysis involving all 101 respondents (i.e., including 63 respondents who reported receiving chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and/or Herceptin, suggesting that they may have been treated for invasive breast cancer). Health literacy was high across all nine HLQ scales. Fear of progression is a key consideration in DCIS treatment decision making for women with high health literacy. QOL treatment considerations differed by treatments received. Women diagnosed with DCIS may benefit from evidence about QOL to inform treatment decision making.

  2. How contextual issues can distort shared decision making.

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    Gartlehner, Gerald; Matyas, Nina

    2016-12-01

    Shared decision making in medicine has become a widely promoted approach. The goal is for patients and physicians to reach a mutual, informed decision by taking into consideration scientific evidence, clinical experience, and the patient's personal values or preferences. Shared decision making, however, is not a straightforward process. In practice, it might fall short of what it promises and might even be misused to whitewash monetary motives. In this article, which summarizes a presentation given at the 17 th Annual Conference of the German Network Evidence-based Medicine on March 4 th , 2016 in Cologne, Germany, we discuss three contextual factors that in our opinion can have a tremendous impact on any informed decision making: 1) opinions and convictions of physicians or other clinicians; 2) uncertainty of the evidence regarding benefits and harms; 3) uncertainty of patients about their own values and preferences. But despite barriers and shortcomings, modern medicine currently does not have an alternative to shared decision making. Shared decision making has become a central theme in good quality health care because it has a strong ethical component. Advocates of shared decision making, however, must realize that not all patients prefer to participate in decision making. For those who do, however, we must ensure that shared decisions can be made in a neutral environment as free of biases and conflicts of interest as possible. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier GmbH.

  3. Provider experiences with RAC appeals point to opportunities for program improvement.

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    Jacobs, Robert; Scott, Bonnie; Flood, Elizabeth; Scott, Ellen

    2011-03-01

    Review by an administrative law judge (ALJ) constitutes the third level of appeal for healthcare providers seeking to overturn reverse recovery audit contractor (RAC) findings of overpayment of Medicare claims. An analysis of the results of RAC appeals submitted by 30 New York hospitals during the demonstration project has disclosed two deficiencies in the ALJ review process: inconsistent ALJ decision making and a lack of an appropriate feedback mechanism to correct erroneous overpayment determinations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should take advantage of feedback from such studies as an impetus to reevaluate and streamline the RAC appeals process.

  4. 77 FR 62316 - Holiday CVS, L.L.C., d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order

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    ... described as tangential. See Gov. Pre- Hearing Statement at 18 (ALJ Ex. 14). In addition, in its Pre... eliminated from the factors which a pharmacist must consider, ``the remaining red flags [we]re still... not resolved conclusively prior to the dispensing of the controlled substance.'' ALJ Ex. 28, at 11-12...

  5. 78 FR 46368 - Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products Containing Same; Termination of an...

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    2013-07-31

    ...; Zhejiang Qiang Ling Electronic Co. Ltd. of Zhenjiang, China (collectively, ``TCP''); U Lighting America Inc... of the '318 patent have been asserted against TCP. On February 27, 2013, the ALJ issued his final... domestic industry requirement of section 337. The ALJ also found that respondent TCP's accused products do...

  6. Cognitive issues in autonomous spacecraft-control operations: An investigation of software-mediated decision making in a scaled environment

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Murphy, Elizabeth Drummond

    As advances in technology are applied in complex, semi-automated domains, human controllers are distanced from the controlled process. This physical and psychological distance may both facilitate and degrade human performance. To investigate cognitive issues in spacecraft ground-control operations, the present experimental research was undertaken. The primary issue concerned the ability of operations analysts who do not monitor operations to make timely, accurate decisions when autonomous software calls for human help. Another key issue involved the potential effects of spatial-visualization ability (SVA) in environments that present data in graphical formats. Hypotheses were derived largely from previous findings and predictions in the literature. Undergraduate psychology students were assigned at random to a monitoring condition or an on-call condition in a scaled environment. The experimental task required subjects to decide on the veracity of a problem diagnosis delivered by a software process on-board a simulated spacecraft. To support decision-making, tabular and graphical data displays presented information on system status. A level of software confidence in the problem diagnosis was displayed, and subjects reported their own level of confidence in their decisions. Contrary to expectations, the performance of on-call subjects did not differ significantly from that of continuous monitors. Analysis yielded a significant interaction of sex and condition: Females in the on-call condition had the lowest mean accuracy. Results included a preference for bar charts over line graphs and faster performance with tables than with line graphs. A significant correlation was found between subjective confidence and decision accuracy. SVA was found to be predictive of accuracy but not speed; and SVA was found to be a stronger predictor of performance for males than for females. Low-SVA subjects reported that they relied more on software confidence than did medium- or high

  7. Compelling Evidence: An Influence on Middle School Students' Accounts That May Impact Decision-Making about Socioscientific Issues

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    Emery, Katherine; Harlow, Danielle; Whitmer, Ali; Gaines, Steven

    2017-01-01

    This study investigates how middle school students make hypothetical purchasing, consuming, and voting decisions about environmental and science-related issues--a key component of environmental literacy. Fifty-three female students were given a packet containing multiple excerpts of information from conflicting positions from stakeholders and…

  8. Diffusion Decision Model: Current Issues and History

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    Ratcliff, Roger; Smith, Philip L.; Brown, Scott D.; McKoon, Gail

    2016-01-01

    There is growing interest in diffusion models to represent the cognitive and neural processes of speeded decision making. Sequential-sampling models like the diffusion model have a long history in psychology. They view decision making as a process of noisy accumulation of evidence from a stimulus. The standard model assumes that evidence accumulates at a constant rate during the second or two it takes to make a decision. This process can be linked to the behaviors of populations of neurons and to theories of optimality. Diffusion models have been used successfully in a range of cognitive tasks and as psychometric tools in clinical research to examine individual differences. In this article, we relate the models to both earlier and more recent research in psychology. PMID:26952739

  9. Diffusion Decision Model: Current Issues and History.

    PubMed

    Ratcliff, Roger; Smith, Philip L; Brown, Scott D; McKoon, Gail

    2016-04-01

    There is growing interest in diffusion models to represent the cognitive and neural processes of speeded decision making. Sequential-sampling models like the diffusion model have a long history in psychology. They view decision making as a process of noisy accumulation of evidence from a stimulus. The standard model assumes that evidence accumulates at a constant rate during the second or two it takes to make a decision. This process can be linked to the behaviors of populations of neurons and to theories of optimality. Diffusion models have been used successfully in a range of cognitive tasks and as psychometric tools in clinical research to examine individual differences. In this review, we relate the models to both earlier and more recent research in psychology. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

  10. Ethical issues in sports medicine: a review and justification for ethical decision making and reasoning.

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    Greenfield, Bruce H; West, Charles Robert

    2012-11-01

    Ethical issues present a challenge for health care professionals working with athletes of sports teams. Health care professionals-including the team physician, the physical therapist, and the athletic trainer-are faced with the challenge of returning an athlete to competition as quickly as possible but as safely as possible. Conflicts of interest arise due to conflicting obligations of the team physician to the athlete and other members of the sports organization, including coaches and the team owner. The multiple stakeholders involved in sports teams challenge the traditional notion of confidentiality and autonomy. The aims of this article are to explicate the ethics of sports medicine, highlight the ethical issues, and provide some strategies and suggestions for ethical decision making.

  11. Foster Parents' Rights to Share in Decision-Making for the Foster Child: Some Issues That Foster Parents Should Be Aware Of.

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    Hardin, Mark; Tazzara, Patricia

    This brief paper is intended, not to provide legal advice, but to alert foster parents to some of the key legal issues affecting their role in decision-making for the foster child. Contents discuss foster parents' access to adequate information concerning their foster children and their right to pursue grievances, resist agency decisions to remove…

  12. Procedures for the handling of retaliation complaints under section 1558 of the Affordable Care Act. Interim final rule; request for comments.

    PubMed

    2013-02-27

    This document provides the interim final regulations governing the employee protection (whistleblower) provision of section 1558 of the Affordable Care Act, which added section 18C of the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide protections to employees of health insurance issuers or other employers who may have been subject to retaliation for reporting potential violations of the law's consumer protections (e.g., the prohibition on denials of insurance due to pre-existing conditions) or affordability assistance provisions (e.g., access to health insurance premium tax credits). This interim rule establishes procedures and time frames for the handling of retaliation complaints under section 18C, including procedures and time frames for employee complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), investigations by OSHA, appeals of OSHA determinations to an administrative law judge (ALJ) for a hearing de novo, hearings by ALJs, review of ALJ decisions by the Administrative Review Board (ARB) (acting on behalf of the Secretary of Labor), and judicial review of the Secretary's final decision.

  13. 42 CFR 3.550 - Stay of the Secretary's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... PATIENT SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND PATIENT SAFETY WORK PRODUCT Enforcement Program § 3.550 Stay of the... security. (c) The ALJ must rule upon a respondent's request for stay within 10 days of receipt. ...

  14. 75 FR 49995 - Robert F. Hunt, D.O. Revocation of Registration

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-08-16

    ... Statute Sec. 893.13-8(a)(1), and one felony count of trafficking by issuing prescriptions in excessive... threaten the public health and safety--the ALJ explained that ``[t]he gravamen of this case is the... Government had made out a prima facie case for revocation, the ALJ turned to whether Respondent had ``accept...

  15. 22 CFR 521.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following: (1...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ shall issue an order containing all matters...

  16. 28 CFR 71.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following: (1...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters agreed...

  17. 10 CFR 13.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... prehearing conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing... and of proposed exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an...

  18. 22 CFR 35.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... of any party, the ALJ shall schedule at least one prehearing conference at a reasonable time in...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters agreed...

  19. 31 CFR 16.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... prehearing conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing... and of proposed exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an...

  20. 15 CFR 25.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following: (1...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters agreed...

  1. 22 CFR 224.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the... exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ shall issue an order containing all...

  2. 45 CFR 2554.23 - What happens during a prehearing conference?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the... exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all...

  3. 45 CFR 79.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following: (1...) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters...

  4. 22 CFR 35.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... of any party, the ALJ shall schedule at least one prehearing conference at a reasonable time in...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all matters agreed...

  5. 45 CFR 2554.23 - What happens during a prehearing conference?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the... exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an order containing all...

  6. 22 CFR 224.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the... exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ shall issue an order containing all...

  7. 22 CFR 521.19 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to discuss the following: (1...; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ shall issue an order containing all matters...

  8. 31 CFR 16.15 - Ex parte contacts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 31 Money and Finance: Treasury 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Ex parte contacts. 16.15 Section 16.15 Money and Finance: Treasury Office of the Secretary of the Treasury REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE... of the ALJ's office) shall communicate in any way with the ALJ on any matter at issue in a case...

  9. Exploring morally relevant issues facing families in their decisions to monitor the health-related behaviours of loved ones.

    PubMed

    Gammon, D; Christiansen, E K; Wynn, R

    2009-07-01

    Patient self-management of disease is increasingly supported by technologies that can monitor a wide range of behavioural and biomedical parameters. Incorporated into everyday devices such as cell phones and clothes, these technologies become integral to the psychosocial aspects of everyday life. Many technologies are likely to be marketed directly to families with ill members, and families may enlist the support of clinicians in shaping use. Current ethical frameworks are mainly conceptualised from the perspective of caregivers, researchers, developers and regulators in order to ensure the ethics of their own practices. This paper focuses on families as autonomous decision-makers outside the regulated context of healthcare. We discuss some morally relevant issues facing families in their decisions to monitor the health-related behaviours of loved ones. An example - remote parental monitoring of adolescent blood glucose - is presented and discussed through the lens of two contrasting accounts of ethics; one reflecting the predominant focus on health outcomes within the health technology assessment (HTA) framework and the other that attends to the broader sociocultural contexts shaping technologies and their implications. Issues discussed include the focus of assessments, informed consent and child assent, and family co-creation of system characteristics and implications. The parents' decisions to remotely monitor their child has relational implications that are likely to influence conflict levels and thus also health outcomes. Current efforts to better integrate outcome assessments with social and ethical assessments are particularly relevant for informed decision-making about health monitoring technologies in families.

  10. 10 CFR 2.629 - Finality of partial decision on site suitability issues in a combined license proceeding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ...), the Director of the Office of New Reactors or the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation... 10 Energy 1 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Finality of partial decision on site suitability issues in a combined license proceeding. 2.629 Section 2.629 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AGENCY RULES...

  11. 10 CFR 2.629 - Finality of partial decision on site suitability issues in a combined license proceeding.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ...), the Director of the Office of New Reactors or the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Finality of partial decision on site suitability issues in a combined license proceeding. 2.629 Section 2.629 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AGENCY RULES...

  12. 10 CFR 13.15 - Ex parte contacts.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Ex parte contacts. 13.15 Section 13.15 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES § 13.15 Ex parte contacts. No party or person (except employees of the ALJ's office) shall communicate in any way with the ALJ on any matter at issue in a case...

  13. 7 CFR 1.320 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) The ALJ may schedule a prehearing conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing and may... exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ shall issue an order containing all...

  14. 43 CFR 35.19 - Pre-hearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use pre-hearing conferences to... and of proposed exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an...

  15. 5 CFR 185.120 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... conference at a reasonable time in advance of the hearing. (c) The ALJ may use prehearing conferences to... and of proposed exhibits; (8) Discovery; (9) The time and place for the hearing; and (10) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the fair and just disposition of the proceedings. (d) The ALJ may issue an...

  16. Lenses for Framing Decisions: Undergraduates' Decision Making about Stem Cell Research

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Halverson, Kristy Lynn; Siegel, Marcelle A.; Freyermuth, Sharyn K.

    2009-01-01

    Decision making is influenced by multiple factors, especially when approaching controversial socio-scientific issues, such as stem cell research. In the present study, we used qualitative data from 132 college student papers in a biotechnology course to investigate how students made decisions about stem cell research issues. Students indicated…

  17. Student Decision-Making about a Globally Familiar Socioscientific Issue: The value of sharing and comparing views with international counterparts

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Grace, Marcus; Chung Lee, Yeung; Asshoff, Roman; Wallin, Anita

    2015-07-01

    This paper focuses on the views of 16-17-year-old science students from England, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden on whale hunting, and their perceptions of the views of their international counterparts. The students were all provided with the same decision-making task, discussed the issue in small groups and then presented their views on video, which were shared with their counterparts. The findings show that the decision-making task served to deepen and modify students' views across all nationalities, and the students generally valued and learned from the sharing of views with students of the same age from around the world. However, an important discovery was that the German students' opinions often ran counter to those from the other 3 locations, and the paper cautions against making broad-sweeping generalisations about students' views on socioscientific issues.

  18. 41 CFR 105-70.002 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., license, permit, favorable decision, ruling, status, or loan guarantee. (e) Claim means any request... purchase of such property or services; or (C) Will reimburse such recipient or party for the purchase of...) Individual means a natural person. (i) Initial Decision means the written decision of the ALJ required by...

  19. Contemporary issues concerning informed consent in Japan based on a review of court decisions and characteristics of Japanese culture

    PubMed Central

    2014-01-01

    Background Since Japan adopted the concept of informed consent from the West, its inappropriate acquisition from patients in the Japanese clinical setting has continued, due in part to cultural aspects. Here, we discuss the current status of and contemporary issues surrounding informed consent in Japan, and how these are influenced by Japanese culture. Discussion Current legal norms towards informed consent and information disclosure are obscure in Japan. For instance, physicians in Japan do not have a legal duty to inform patients of a cancer diagnosis. To gain a better understanding of these issues, we present five court decisions related to informed consent and information disclosure. We then discuss Japanese culture through reviews of published opinions and commentaries regarding how culture affects decision making and obtaining informed consent. We focus on two contemporary problems involving informed consent and relevant issues in clinical settings: the misuse of informed consent and persistence in obtaining consent. For the former issue, the phrase "informed consent" is often used to express an opportunity to disclose medical conditions and recommended treatment choices. The casual use of the expression "informed consent" likely reflects deep-rooted cultural influences. For the latter issue, physicians may try to obtain a signature by doing whatever it takes, lacking a deep understanding of important ethical principles, such as protecting human dignity, serving the patient’s best interest, and doing no harm in decision-making for patients. There is clearly a misunderstanding of the concept of informed consent and a lack of complete understanding of ethical principles among Japanese healthcare professionals. Although similar in some respects to informed consent as it originated in the United States, our review makes it clear that informed consent in Japan has clear distinguishing features. Summary Japanese healthcare professionals should aim to understand

  20. Contemporary issues concerning informed consent in Japan based on a review of court decisions and characteristics of Japanese culture.

    PubMed

    Masaki, Sakiko; Ishimoto, Hiroko; Asai, Atsushi

    2014-02-04

    Since Japan adopted the concept of informed consent from the West, its inappropriate acquisition from patients in the Japanese clinical setting has continued, due in part to cultural aspects. Here, we discuss the current status of and contemporary issues surrounding informed consent in Japan, and how these are influenced by Japanese culture. Current legal norms towards informed consent and information disclosure are obscure in Japan. For instance, physicians in Japan do not have a legal duty to inform patients of a cancer diagnosis. To gain a better understanding of these issues, we present five court decisions related to informed consent and information disclosure. We then discuss Japanese culture through reviews of published opinions and commentaries regarding how culture affects decision making and obtaining informed consent. We focus on two contemporary problems involving informed consent and relevant issues in clinical settings: the misuse of informed consent and persistence in obtaining consent. For the former issue, the phrase "informed consent" is often used to express an opportunity to disclose medical conditions and recommended treatment choices. The casual use of the expression "informed consent" likely reflects deep-rooted cultural influences. For the latter issue, physicians may try to obtain a signature by doing whatever it takes, lacking a deep understanding of important ethical principles, such as protecting human dignity, serving the patient's best interest, and doing no harm in decision-making for patients.There is clearly a misunderstanding of the concept of informed consent and a lack of complete understanding of ethical principles among Japanese healthcare professionals. Although similar in some respects to informed consent as it originated in the United States, our review makes it clear that informed consent in Japan has clear distinguishing features. Japanese healthcare professionals should aim to understand the basic nature of informed

  1. 20 CFR 655.1314 - Setting meal charges; petition for higher meal charges.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... month percentage change for the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers for Food between December... a favorable decision from the CO unless the CO sets a later effective date in the decision. (c... considered as a complaint to which an answer is required. The decision of the ALJ is the final decision of...

  2. 49 CFR 1503.631 - Interlocutory appeals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Rules of Practice in TSA Civil Penalty Actions § 1503.631 Interlocutory appeals. (a) General. Unless otherwise provided in this subpart, a party may not appeal a ruling or decision of the ALJ to the TSA decision maker until the initial decision has been entered on the record. A decision or order of the TSA...

  3. 76 FR 8997 - Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh Strawberries From Jordan Into...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-02-16

    ...] Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh Strawberries From Jordan Into the... continental United States of fresh strawberries from Jordan. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis... strawberries from Jordan. DATES: Effective Date: February 16, 2011. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Donna...

  4. The Role of Integrated Modelling and Assessment for Decision-Making: Lessons from Water Allocation Issues in Australia

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Jakeman, A. J.; Guillaume, J. H. A.; El Sawah, S.; Hamilton, S.

    2014-12-01

    Integrated modelling and assessment (IMA) is best regarded as a process that can support environmental decision-making when issues are strongly contested and uncertainties pervasive. To be most useful, the process must be multi-dimensional and phased. Principally, it must be tailored to the problem context to encompass diverse issues of concern, management settings and stakeholders. This in turn requires the integration of multiple processes and components of natural and human systems and their corresponding spatial and temporal scales. Modellers therefore need to be able to integrate multiple disciplines, methods, models, tools and data, and many sources and types of uncertainty. These dimensions are incorporated into iteration between the various phases of the IMA process, including scoping, problem framing and formulation, assessing options and communicating findings. Two case studies in Australia are employed to share the lessons of how integration can be achieved in these IMA phases using a mix of stakeholder participation processes and modelling tools. One case study aims to improve the relevance of modelling by incorporating stakeholder's views of irrigated viticulture and water management decision making. It used a novel methodology with the acronym ICTAM, consisting of Interviews to elicit mental models, Cognitive maps to represent and analyse individual and group mental models, Time-sequence diagrams to chronologically structure the decision making process, an All-encompassing conceptual model, and computational Models of stakeholder decision making. The second case uses a hydro-economic river network model to examine basin-wide impacts of water allocation cuts and adoption of farm innovations. The knowledge exchange approach used in each case was designed to integrate data and knowledge bearing in mind the contextual dimensions of the problem at hand, and the specific contributions that environmental modelling was thought to be able to make.

  5. 77 FR 58406 - Certain LED Photographic Lighting Devices and Components Thereof; Notice of Request for...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-09-20

    ...Notice is hereby given that the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') has issued a Final Initial Determination and Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bonding in the above-captioned investigation. The Commission is soliciting comments on public interest issues raised by the recommended relief, specifically a general exclusion order against certain LED photographic lighting devices and components thereof. The ALJ alternatively recommended a limited exclusion order against certain LED photographic lighting devices and components thereof manufactured or sold by the respondents found in violation of 19 U.S.C. 1337.

  6. 29 CFR 18.41 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Summary decision. 18.41 Section 18.41 Labor Office of the... ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES General § 18.41 Summary decision. (a) No genuine issue of material fact. (1) Where no.... Any final decision issued as a summary decision shall conform to the requirements for all final...

  7. The Effects of Emotive Reasoning on Secondary School Students' Decision-Making in the Context of Socioscientific Issues

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Powell, Wardell A.

    The discrepancy between what students are being taught within K-12 science classrooms and what they experience in the real world has been well documented. This study sought to explore the ways a high school biology curriculum, which integrates socioscientific issues, impacts students' emotive reasoning and their ability to evaluate evidence, make informed decisions on contemporary scientific dilemmas, and integrate scientific content knowledge in their reasoning on SSI. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine differences within and between an SSI treatment group and a comparison group as well as individual differences among students' responses over a semester of high school biology. Results indicated students used emotions largely to evaluate evidence and make decisions on contentious scientific dilemmas. In addition, the results showed students used newly gained scientific content knowledge to make logical predictions on contentious scientific issues. Statistical significance was found between groups of students in regard to their interest in the use of embryonic stem cell treatments to restore rats' vision, as well as students' abilities to evaluate evidence. Theoretical implications regarding the use of SSI in the classroom are presented.

  8. 75 FR 29309 - Notice of Decision to Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh Male Summer Squash Flowers From...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-05-25

    ...] Notice of Decision to Issue Permits for the Importation of Fresh Male Summer Squash Flowers From Israel... into the continental United States of fresh male summer squash flowers from Israel. Based on the... importation of fresh male summer squash flowers from Israel. EFFECTIVE DATE: May 25, 2010. FOR FURTHER...

  9. 78 FR 13304 - Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for the Importation of Strawberry Fruit From Egypt Into the...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-02-27

    ...] Notice of Decision To Issue Permits for the Importation of Strawberry Fruit From Egypt Into the... continental United States of fresh strawberry fruit from Egypt. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis... strawberry fruit from Egypt. DATES: Effective Date: February 27, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr...

  10. 49 CFR 1503.603 - Separation of functions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Rules of Practice in TSA Civil Penalty Actions § 1503.603 Separation of functions. (a) Civil penalty... the ALJ or by the TSA decision maker on appeal, except as counsel or a witness in the public... advise the TSA decision maker regarding an initial decision or any appeal of a civil penalty action to...

  11. Environmental Decision Making on Acid Mine Drainage Issues in South Africa: An Argument for the Precautionary Principle.

    PubMed

    Morodi, T J; Mpofu, Charles

    2017-06-28

    This paper examines the issue of acid mine drainage in South Africa and environmental decision making processes that could be taken to mitigate the problem in the context of both conventional risk assessment and the precautionary principle. It is argued that conventional risk assessment protects the status quo and hence cannot be entirely relied upon as an effective tool to resolve environmental problems in the context of South Africa, a developing country with complex environmental health concerns. The complexity of the environmental issues is discussed from historical and political perspectives. An argument is subsequently made that the precautionary principle is an alternative tool, and its adoption can be used to empower local communities. This work, therefore, adds to new knowledge by problematising conventional risk assessment and proposing the framing of the acid mine drainage issues in a complex and contextual scenario of a developing country-South Africa.

  12. 30 CFR 44.41 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Summary decision. 44.41 Section 44.41 Mineral... REQUIREMENTS RULES OF PRACTICE FOR PETITIONS FOR MODIFICATION OF MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS Summary Decisions § 44.41 Summary decision. (a) No genuine issue of material fact. (1) Where no genuine issue of a...

  13. 5 CFR 2610.308 - Decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Administrative Personnel OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EQUAL... officer shall issue an initial decision on the application within 30 days after completion of proceedings... amount requested and the amount awarded. The decision shall also include, if at issue, findings on...

  14. 77 FR 77092 - Certain Devices for Improving Uniformity Used in a Backlight Module and Components Thereof and...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-12-31

    ...Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review the presiding administrative law judge's (``ALJ'') final initial determination (``ID'') issued on October 22, 2012, finding no violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, (as amended), 19 U.S.C. 1337 (``section 337''), in the above- captioned investigation. The Commission has also determined to remand- in-part the investigation to the ALJ.

  15. The Impact of Positive and Negative Affect and Issue Framing on Issue Interpretation and Risk Taking.

    PubMed

    Mittal; Ross

    1998-12-01

    Two studies examined the influence of transient affective states and issue framing on issue interpretation and risk taking within the context of strategic decision making. In Study 1, participants in whom transient positive or negative affective states were induced by reading a short story showed systematic differences in issue interpretation and risk taking in a strategic decision making context. Compared to negative mood participants, those in a positive mood were more likely to interpret the strategic issue as an opportunity and displayed lower levels of risk taking. Study 2 replicated and extended these results by crossing affective states with threat and opportunity frames. Results showed that framing an issue (as a threat or an opportunity) had a stronger impact on issue interpretation among negative affect participants than among positive affect participants. Affective states also moderated the impact of issue framing on risk taking: the effect of framing on risk-taking was stronger under negative rather than positive affect. These results are interpreted via information-processing and motivational effects of affect on a decision maker. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.

  16. 45 CFR 160.548 - Appeal of the ALJ's decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... extension within the initial 30 day period and shows good cause. (b) If a party files a timely notice of... such hearing is relevant and material and that there were reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce... the Board for good cause shown. Reply briefs are not permitted. (4) The Board must rule on the motion...

  17. 45 CFR 681.39 - Are there any limitations on the right to appeal to the authority head?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals... that the additional evidence is material, the authority head may remand the matter to the ALJ for...

  18. 45 CFR 681.39 - Are there any limitations on the right to appeal to the authority head?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals... that the additional evidence is material, the authority head may remand the matter to the ALJ for...

  19. 45 CFR 681.39 - Are there any limitations on the right to appeal to the authority head?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals... that the additional evidence is material, the authority head may remand the matter to the ALJ for...

  20. 45 CFR 681.39 - Are there any limitations on the right to appeal to the authority head?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals... that the additional evidence is material, the authority head may remand the matter to the ALJ for...

  1. 45 CFR 681.39 - Are there any limitations on the right to appeal to the authority head?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT REGULATIONS Decisions and Appeals... that the additional evidence is material, the authority head may remand the matter to the ALJ for...

  2. 42 CFR 423.1986 - Good cause for reopening.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... the time of the determination or decision; and (ii) May result in a different conclusion; or (2) The evidence that was considered in making the determination or decision clearly shows on its face that an... (CONTINUED) MEDICARE PROGRAM VOLUNTARY MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT Reopening, ALJ Hearings, MAC review...

  3. 77 FR 35031 - 4 OTC, Inc.; Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-06-12

    ...-captioned matter. [ALJ Exhibit Exh. 3]. On May 24, 2010, the Government filed a Motion For Summary Judgment And To Stay The Dates For The Parties To Submit Prehearing Statements (``Motion for Summary Judgment... its response to the Government's Motion for Summary Judgment. Therein, the Respondent stated that it...

  4. Ethical Issues in Editing Scholarly Journals.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stryker, Sheldon

    1990-01-01

    Discusses ethical issues that arise when serving as an editor of a scholarly journal. Suggests treating these issues using paradigm-based decisions; decisions based on personal sociological predilections and commitments; and reasonable referee-assignment policies. Notes how conflicts of interest inevitably accompanying such a position. (NL)

  5. Ethical Issues in Neurogenetics

    PubMed Central

    Uhlmann, Wendy R.; Roberts, J. Scott

    2018-01-01

    Many neurogenetic conditions are inherited and therefore diagnosis of a patient will have implications for their relatives and can raise ethical issues. Predictive genetic testing offers asymptomatic relatives the opportunity to determine their risk status for a neurogenetic condition, and professional guidelines emphasize patients’ autonomy and informed, voluntary decision-making. Beneficence and non-maleficence both need to be considered when making decisions about disclosure and nondisclosure of genetic information and test results. There can be disclosure concerns and issues of determining whose autonomy to prioritize when a patient makes a genetic testing decision that can reveal the genetic status of a relative (e.g. testing an adult child when the at-risk parent has not been tested). Ethical issues are prominent when genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions is requested prenatally, on minors, adoptees, adult children at 25% risk, and for individuals with psychiatric issues or cognitive impairment. Neurogenetic conditions can result in cognitive decline which can affect decisional capacity and lead to ethical challenges with decision-making, informed consent and determining the patient’s ability to comprehend test results. The ethical implications of genetic testing and emerging issues, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, disclosure of secondary findings from genomic sequencing, and use of APOE testing in clinical and research settings, are also discussed. Resources for information about genetic testing practice guidelines, insurance laws and directories of genetics clinics are included. PMID:29325614

  6. Student Decision-Making about a Globally Familiar Socioscientific Issue: The Value of Sharing and Comparing Views with International Counterparts

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Grace, Marcus; Lee, Yeung Chung; Asshoff, Roman; Wallin, Anita

    2015-01-01

    This paper focuses on the views of 16-17-year-old science students from England, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden on whale hunting, and their perceptions of the views of their international counterparts. The students were all provided with the same decision-making task, discussed the issue in small groups and then presented their views on video,…

  7. 29 CFR 4.187 - Recovery of underpayments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... thwart the legislative policy which it was designed to effectuate.” See also Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi, 328..., for example, Waite, Inc., Decision of the ALJ, SCA 530-566, October 19, 1976, Spruce-Up Corp..., PC-330, October 3, 1947; Reynolds Research Corp., Decision of the Administrator, PC-381, October 24...

  8. 29 CFR 4.187 - Recovery of underpayments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... thwart the legislative policy which it was designed to effectuate.” See also Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi, 328..., for example, Waite, Inc., Decision of the ALJ, SCA 530-566, October 19, 1976, Spruce-Up Corp..., PC-330, October 3, 1947; Reynolds Research Corp., Decision of the Administrator, PC-381, October 24...

  9. 29 CFR 4.187 - Recovery of underpayments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... thwart the legislative policy which it was designed to effectuate.” See also Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi, 328..., for example, Waite, Inc., Decision of the ALJ, SCA 530-566, October 19, 1976, Spruce-Up Corp..., PC-330, October 3, 1947; Reynolds Research Corp., Decision of the Administrator, PC-381, October 24...

  10. Decision Making and Systems Thinking: Educational Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Yurtseven, M. Kudret; Buchanan, Walter W.

    2016-01-01

    Decision making in most universities is taught within the conventional OR/MS (Operations Research/Management Science) paradigm. This paradigm is known to be "hard" since it is consisted of mathematical tools, and normally suitable for solving structured problems. In complex situations the conventional OR/MS paradigm proves to be…

  11. Post-decision consolidation in large group decision-making.

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    Bäck, Emma A; Esaiasson, Peter; Gilljam, Mikael; Svenson, Ola; Lindholm, Torun

    2011-08-01

    Decision-makers tend to change the psychological attractiveness of decision alternatives in favor of their own preferred alternative after the decision is made. In two experiments, the present research examined whether such decision consolidation occurs also among individual group members in a large group decision-making situation. High-school students were presented with a decision scenario on an important issue in their school. The final decision was made by in-group authority, out-group authority or by majority after a ballot voting. Results showed that individual members of large groups changed the attractiveness of their preferred alternative from a pre- to a post-decision phase, that these consolidation effects increased when decisions were made by in-group members, and when participants identified strongly with their school. Implications of the findings for understanding of group behavior and subgroup relations are discussed. © 2011 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology © 2011 The Scandinavian Psychological Associations.

  12. 41 CFR 102-118.485 - Is there a time limit for my agency to issue a decision on disputed claims?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System (Continued) FEDERAL MANAGEMENT... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Is there a time limit... Information for All Claims § 102-118.485 Is there a time limit for my agency to issue a decision on disputed...

  13. Contingent Decision Behavior: A Review and Discussion of Issues.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-02-01

    values) will draw more attention (Yates, et. al., 1978). Studies investigating decision making among partially described alternatives are limited in number...theory that attempts to describe human decison making ." More evidence of range effects is provided in Krzysztofowicz and Ouckstein (1980). A good...activities may move along that intuitive-analytic continuum over time. For that reason he argues that decision researchers need to pay more attention to the

  14. Decision Support | Solar Research | NREL

    Science.gov Websites

    informed solar decision making with credible, objective, accessible, and timely resources. Solar Energy Decision Support Decision Support NREL provides technical and analytical support to support provide unbiased information on solar policies and issues for state and local government decision makers

  15. Conceptual and statistical issues in couples observational research: Rationale and methods for design decisions.

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    Baucom, Brian R W; Leo, Karena; Adamo, Colin; Georgiou, Panayiotis; Baucom, Katherine J W

    2017-12-01

    Observational behavioral coding methods are widely used for the study of relational phenomena. There are numerous guidelines for the development and implementation of these methods that include principles for creating new and adapting existing coding systems as well as principles for creating coding teams. While these principles have been successfully implemented in research on relational phenomena, the ever expanding array of phenomena being investigated with observational methods calls for a similar expansion of these principles. Specifically, guidelines are needed for decisions that arise in current areas of emphasis in couple research including observational investigation of related outcomes (e.g., relationship distress and psychological symptoms), the study of change in behavior over time, and the study of group similarities and differences in the enactment and perception of behavior. This article describes conceptual and statistical considerations involved in these 3 areas of research and presents principle- and empirically based rationale for design decisions related to these issues. A unifying principle underlying these guidelines is the need for careful consideration of fit between theory, research questions, selection of coding systems, and creation of coding teams. Implications of (mis)fit for the advancement of theory are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

  16. Indicators of Informal and Formal Decision-Making about a Socioscientific Issue

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    Dauer, Jenny M.; Lute, Michelle L.; Straka, Olivia

    2017-01-01

    We propose two contrasting types of student decision-making based on social and cognitive psychology models of separate mental processes for problem solving. Informal decision-making uses intuitive reasoning and is subject to cognitive biases, whereas formal decision-making uses effortful, logical reasoning. We explored indicators of students'…

  17. Ethical issues in neurogenetics.

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    Uhlmann, Wendy R; Roberts, J Scott

    2018-01-01

    Many neurogenetic conditions are inherited and therefore diagnosis of a patient will have implications for the patient's relatives and can raise ethical issues. Predictive genetic testing offers asymptomatic relatives the opportunity to determine their risk status for a neurogenetic condition, and professional guidelines emphasize patients' autonomy and informed, voluntary decision making. Beneficence and nonmaleficence both need to be considered when making decisions about disclosure and nondisclosure of genetic information and test results. There can be disclosure concerns and challenges in determining whose autonomy to prioritize when a patient makes a genetic testing decision that can reveal the genetic status of a relative (e.g., testing an adult child when the at-risk parent has not been tested). Ethical issues are prominent when genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions is requested prenatally, on minors, adoptees, adult children at 25% risk, and for individuals with psychiatric issues or cognitive impairment. Neurogenetic conditions can result in cognitive decline which can affect decisional capacity and lead to ethical challenges with decision making, informed consent, and determining the patient's ability to comprehend test results. The ethical implications of genetic testing and emerging issues, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, disclosure of secondary findings from genomic sequencing, and use of apolipoprotein E testing in clinical and research settings, are also discussed. Resources for information about genetic testing practice guidelines, insurance laws, and directories of genetics clinics are included. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  18. 78 FR 61961 - Joe W. Morgan, D.O.; Decision and Order

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    2013-10-08

    ..., Ex. A., at 5. This finding thus precludes reliance on the ALJ's conclusion that Respondent's... confront the allegations.'' Resp. Post-Hrng. Br. 11. \\7\\ In his post-hearing brief, Respondent argues that he ``testified truthfully and fully at the hearing.'' Resp. Post-Hrng. Br. 18. Respondent then...

  19. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuances. Volume 47, Number 2

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    NONE

    1998-02-01

    This report includes the issuances received during the specified period from the Commission (CLI), the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards (LBP), the Administrative Law Judges (ALJ), the Directors` Decisions (DD), and the Decisions on Petitions for Rulemaking (DPRM). They involve: 21st Century Technologies, Inc.; Hydro Resources, Inc.; Northeast Utilities; and Northern States Power Company.

  20. The Relationship of Science Knowledge, Attitude and Decision Making on Socio-Scientific Issues: The Case Study of Students' Debates on a Nuclear Power Plant in Korea

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    Jho, Hunkoog; Yoon, Hye-Gyoung; Kim, Mijung

    2014-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of students' understanding of science knowledge, attitude and decision making on socio-scientific issues (SSI), especially on the issues of nuclear energy in Korea. SSI-focused instructions were developed to encourage students to understand and reflect on knowledge, attitude and…

  1. 30 CFR 290.107 - Where are the rules concerning the effect of the Department not issuing a decision in my appeal...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Where are the rules concerning the effect of the Department not issuing a decision in my appeal within the statutory time frame? 290.107 Section... PROCEDURES Minerals Revenue Management Appeal Procedures § 290.107 Where are the rules concerning the effect...

  2. Decisions, Decisions: The Countless Times Instructional Practice and Reality Meet

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    Miranda, Martina L.

    2014-01-01

    This article examines critical issues related to teacher decision-making in early childhood music classrooms. Through the story of one teacher's experience, we take a closer look at specific criteria to guide decision-making, and strategies to deepen awareness of young children's needs in the music classroom and guide instructional…

  3. 78 FR 44972 - George R. Smith, M.D.; Decision and Order

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    2013-07-25

    ... administrative hearing. [ALJ Exh. 5; Tr. 6]. B. Respondent's History 1. Respondent's Education and Training Respondent received a Bachelor of Science degree from East Texas State University, majoring in Molecular... Southwestern Medical School, where he later graduated in the top 10% of his class. [Tr. 78-79]. After...

  4. Shared Knowledge for Decision-making on Environment and Health Issues in the Arctic

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Maynard, Nancy G.

    2003-01-01

    This paper will describe a remote sensing and GIs-based system to bring indigenous traditional knowledge together with contemporary scientific knowledge to address impacts resulting from changes in climate, environment, weather and pollution in the Arctic. As scientists and policy-makers from both indigenous and non-indigenous communities continue to build closer partnerships to address common sustainability issues such as the health impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities, it becomes increasingly important to create shared information management systems which integrate all relevant factors for optimal information sharing and decision-making. This system is being designed to bring together remotely sensed, indigenous and other data and observations for analysis, measuring, and monitoring parameters of interest (e.g., snow cover, rainfall, temperature, ice conditions, vegetation, infrastructure, fires). A description of the system and its components as well as a preliminary application of the system in the Arctic will be presented.

  5. [Issues related to consent to healthcare decisions in children and adolescents].

    PubMed

    Bailly, D

    2010-02-01

    The process of consent to healthcare decisions in children and adolescents often set physicians difficult problems. From what age is a child able to understand the information given to him or her about illness and treatment? Is an ill child indeed in the capacity to give his or her voluntary consent to treatment? How to define and to assess the capacity of an ill child to take part in treatment decisions? More than the age of the child, it is his or her level of cognitive, emotional and social development and its interactions with illness that will determine his or her degree of involvement in the decision-making process. There is a moral and ethical need to respect the rights and autonomy of every individual, regardless of age. This does not mean viewing children and adolescents as rational and autonomous decision-makers. This implies that we must promote their developmentally appropriate participation in shared decision-making with parents and physicians. Therefore, instead of asking, "should children and adolescents be granted absolute autonomy in decision making?" we ought to ask, "should we treat children and adolescents like people?" Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

  6. 25 CFR 162.588 - What happens if BIA does not meet a deadline for issuing a decision on a lease document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false What happens if BIA does not meet a deadline for issuing a decision on a lease document? 162.588 Section 162.588 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND AND WATER LEASES AND PERMITS Wind and Solar Resource Leases Wsr Lease...

  7. 25 CFR 162.588 - What happens if BIA does not meet a deadline for issuing a decision on a lease document?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false What happens if BIA does not meet a deadline for issuing a decision on a lease document? 162.588 Section 162.588 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND AND WATER LEASES AND PERMITS Wind and Solar Resource Leases Wsr Lease...

  8. 8 CFR 103.37 - Precedent decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ..., selected decisions of the Board rendered by a three-member panel or by the Board en banc may be designated... proceedings involving the same issue or issues. (h) Referral of cases to the Attorney General. (1) The Board shall refer to the Attorney General for review of its decision all cases which: (i) The Attorney General...

  9. 8 CFR 103.37 - Precedent decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ..., selected decisions of the Board rendered by a three-member panel or by the Board en banc may be designated... proceedings involving the same issue or issues. (h) Referral of cases to the Attorney General. (1) The Board shall refer to the Attorney General for review of its decision all cases which: (i) The Attorney General...

  10. Nature of Science and Decision-Making

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Khishfe, Rola

    2012-01-01

    The study investigated the relationship of nature of science (NOS) instruction and students' decision-making (DM) related to a controversial socioscientific issue about genetically modified food. Participants were ninth-grade students in four intact sections (two regulars and two honors) in a public high school in the Midwest. All four groups were taught by their regular science teacher. The treatment comprised a four-week unit about genetic engineering. Two groups (one regular and one honors), referred to as comparison groups, received instruction in genetic engineering and how to formulate arguments and make decisions related to this controversial issue. The other two groups (one regular and one honors), referred to as treatment groups, received instruction in genetic engineering and how to apply NOS aspects as they formulate arguments and make decisions in relation to this controversial issue. Chi-square analyses showed significant differences between the comparison and the treatment groups in relation to the understandings of four NOS aspects. There were no differences in their decisions, but there were differences in their DM factors in the context of the controversial socioscientific issue about genetically modified food. These results are discussed in light of the relationship between students' understandings of NOS and their DM related to controversial socioscientific issues.

  11. The media and access issues: content analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of health policy decisions.

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    Rachul, Christen; Caulfield, Timothy

    2015-08-25

    Previous studies have demonstrated how the media has an influence on policy decisions and healthcare coverage. Studies of Canadian media have shown that news coverage often emphasizes and hypes certain aspects of high profile health debates. We hypothesized that in Canadian media coverage of access to healthcare issues about therapies and technologies including for rare diseases, the media would be largely sympathetic towards patients, thus adding to public debate that largely favors increased access to healthcare-even in the face of equivocal evidence regarding efficacy. In order to test this hypothesis, we conducted a content analysis of 530 news articles about access to health therapies and technologies from 15 major Canadian newspapers over a 10-year period. Articles were analyzed for the perspectives presented in the articles and the types of reasons or arguments presented either for or against the particular access issue portrayed in the news articles. We found that news media coverage was largely sympathetic towards increasing healthcare funding and ease of access to healthcare (77.4 %). Rare diseases and orphan drugs were the most common issues raised (22.6 %). Patients perspectives were often highlighted in articles (42.3 %). 96.8 % of articles discussed why access to healthcare needs to increase, and discussion that questioned increased access was only included in 33.6 % articles. We found that news media favors a patient access ethos, which may contribute to a difficult policy-making environment.

  12. State Decision-Makers Guide for Hazardous Waste Management: Defining Hazardous Wastes, Problem Recognition, Land Use, Facility Operations, Conceptual Framework, Policy Issues, Transportation.

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    Corson, Alan; And Others

    Presented are key issues to be addressed by state, regional, and local governments and agencies in creating effective hazardous waste management programs. Eight chapters broadly frame the topics which state-level decision makers should consider. These chapters include: (1) definition of hazardous waste; (2) problem definition and recognition; (3)…

  13. Caregiving and, Decision-Making For Seniors: How You Can Help

    MedlinePlus

    ... Issue Past Issues Feature: Senior Living Caregiving and Decision-Making For Seniors: How You Can Help Past Issues / ... key resources and suggestions for effective care and decision-making for seniors. —The Editors To Find Out More ...

  14. Great Decisions '86.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hoepli, Nancy L., Ed.

    Designed to initiate discussion of foreign policy decisions, this book contains an analysis of eight foreign policy issues confronting the United States in 1986. Each unit provides the background and guidelines to provide perspective to assist in understanding foreign policy crises. The units included in this issue are: (1) "How Foreign Policy Is…

  15. 75 FR 65654 - In the Matter of: Certain Mobile Telephones and Wireless Communication Devices Featuring Digital...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-10-26

    ... on claim construction (``ID'') issued by the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') in the... anticipation or obviousness), unenforceability. Claim construction may be a necessary underpinning to the... or element. On its own, however, claim construction might not be viewed as constituting such an issue...

  16. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuances, Volume 45, No. 5

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    NONE

    1997-05-01

    This report includes the issuances received during the specified period from the Commission (CLI), the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards (LBP), the Administrative Law Judges (ALJ), the Directors` Decisions (DD), and the Decisions on Petitions for Rulemaking (DPRM). The summaries and headnotes preceding the opinions reported herein are not to be deemed a part of those opinions or have any independent legal significance.

  17. 10 CFR 1003.56 - Decision and Order.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... relevant information received or obtained during the proceeding, the OHA shall issue a Decision and Order... forth the relevant facts and the legal basis of the Decision and Order. When appropriate, the Decision...

  18. Issues in Educational Administration.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ediger, Marlow

    School administrators need to study and analyze the pros and cons of issues before making decisions. Ultimately, decisions need to be made by administrators as to which philosophies of education to implement in resolving conflicting points of view. More research studies would lead to an increased number of syntheses of the pros and cons of certain…

  19. The NCSS Public Issues Program.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    McFarland, Mary

    1989-01-01

    Describes programs sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) to promote civic participation. The programs are National Issues Forums (NIF) in the Classroom; Jefferson Meetings; Great Decisions; Public Issues Series; and C-SPAN in the Classroom. (SLM)

  20. 82 FR 55395 - Certain Memory Modules Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same; Notice of Request for...

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    2017-11-21

    ...Notice is hereby given that the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') has issued a Final Initial Determination on Violation of Section 337 and Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bonding in the above-captioned investigation. The Commission is soliciting comments on public interest issues raised by the recommended relief should the Commission find a violation of section 337. The ALJ recommended, should the Commission find a violation, that the Commission issue a limited exclusion order directed against certain memory modules and components thereof, and products containing same imported by respondents SK Hynix Inc. of Gyeoonggi-do, Republic of Korea; and SK Hynix America, Inc. and SK Hynix Memory Solutions Inc., both of San Jose, California. This notice is soliciting public interest comments from the public only. Parties are to file public interest submissions pursuant to Commission rules.

  1. Legal and Ethical Issues in Evaluating Abortion Services.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ferris, Lori E.

    2000-01-01

    Focuses on ethical and legal issues that arose in the evaluation of abortion services. Discusses the development of decision rules and tradeoffs in dealing with these issues to reach rational and objective decisions. Places the discussion in the context of balancing usefulness and propriety with respect to informed consent and privacy and makes…

  2. Instrumentation issues in implementation science.

    PubMed

    Martinez, Ruben G; Lewis, Cara C; Weiner, Bryan J

    2014-09-04

    Like many new fields, implementation science has become vulnerable to instrumentation issues that potentially threaten the strength of the developing knowledge base. For instance, many implementation studies report findings based on instruments that do not have established psychometric properties. This article aims to review six pressing instrumentation issues, discuss the impact of these issues on the field, and provide practical recommendations. This debate centers on the impact of the following instrumentation issues: use of frameworks, theories, and models; role of psychometric properties; use of 'home-grown' and adapted instruments; choosing the most appropriate evaluation method and approach; practicality; and need for decision-making tools. Practical recommendations include: use of consensus definitions for key implementation constructs; reporting standards (e.g., regarding psychometrics, instrument adaptation); when to use multiple forms of observation and mixed methods; and accessing instrument repositories and decision aid tools. This debate provides an overview of six key instrumentation issues and offers several courses of action to limit the impact of these issues on the field. With careful attention to these issues, the field of implementation science can potentially move forward at the rapid pace that is respectfully demanded by community stakeholders.

  3. Geoethics and decision science issues in Japan's disaster management system: case study in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Sugimoto, Megumi

    2015-04-01

    The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and its tsunami killed 18,508 people, including the missing (National Police Agency report as of April 2014) and raise the Level 7 accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Japan. The problems revealed can be viewed as due to a combination of risk-management, risk-communication, and geoethics issues. Japan's preparations for earthquakes and tsunamis are based on the magnitude of the anticipated earthquake for each region. The government organization coordinating the estimation of anticipated earthquakes is the "Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion" (HERP), which is under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Japan's disaster mitigation system is depicted schematically as consisting of three layers: seismology, civil engineering, and disaster mitigation planning. This research explains students in geoscience should study geoethics as part of their education related Tohoku earthquake and the Level 7 accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. Only when they become practicing professionals, they will be faced with real geoethical dilemmas. A crisis such as the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident, will force many geoscientists to suddenly confront previously unanticipated geoethics and risk-communication issues. One hopes that previous training will help them to make appropriate decisions under stress. We name it "decision science".

  4. Decision exploration lab: a visual analytics solution for decision management.

    PubMed

    Broeksema, Bertjan; Baudel, Thomas; Telea, Arthur G; Crisafulli, Paolo

    2013-12-01

    We present a visual analytics solution designed to address prevalent issues in the area of Operational Decision Management (ODM). In ODM, which has its roots in Artificial Intelligence (Expert Systems) and Management Science, it is increasingly important to align business decisions with business goals. In our work, we consider decision models (executable models of the business domain) as ontologies that describe the business domain, and production rules that describe the business logic of decisions to be made over this ontology. Executing a decision model produces an accumulation of decisions made over time for individual cases. We are interested, first, to get insight in the decision logic and the accumulated facts by themselves. Secondly and more importantly, we want to see how the accumulated facts reveal potential divergences between the reality as captured by the decision model, and the reality as captured by the executed decisions. We illustrate the motivation, added value for visual analytics, and our proposed solution and tooling through a business case from the car insurance industry.

  5. 47 CFR 76.936 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE Cable Rate Regulation § 76.936 Written decision. (a) A franchising authority... of interested parties. A franchising authority is not required to issue a written decision that...

  6. Decision theory, reinforcement learning, and the brain.

    PubMed

    Dayan, Peter; Daw, Nathaniel D

    2008-12-01

    Decision making is a core competence for animals and humans acting and surviving in environments they only partially comprehend, gaining rewards and punishments for their troubles. Decision-theoretic concepts permeate experiments and computational models in ethology, psychology, and neuroscience. Here, we review a well-known, coherent Bayesian approach to decision making, showing how it unifies issues in Markovian decision problems, signal detection psychophysics, sequential sampling, and optimal exploration and discuss paradigmatic psychological and neural examples of each problem. We discuss computational issues concerning what subjects know about their task and how ambitious they are in seeking optimal solutions; we address algorithmic topics concerning model-based and model-free methods for making choices; and we highlight key aspects of the neural implementation of decision making.

  7. Nurse educators and decision making: a female perspective.

    PubMed

    Valentine, P E

    1992-01-01

    Quality of work life issues are major concerns of nurses today. Decision making is one such issue. This article is part of a larger case study of a Canadian hospital school of nursing that asked whether women nurse educators bring unique orientations to the workplace that have relevance for the administration of nursing organizations. The process of decision making, a small part of the larger study, is discussed in this article. The results suggested that women nurse educators used a cooperative, collaborative, highly participatory style of decision making that resulted in decisions based on consensus. The implications this female style of decision making has for nurses and nurse administrators is discussed.

  8. Making ResourceFULL™ Decisions: A Process Model for Civic Engagement

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Radke, Barbara; Chazdon, Scott

    2015-01-01

    Many public issues are becoming more complex, interconnected, and cannot be resolved by one individual or entity. Research shows an informed decision is not enough. Addressing these issues requires authentic civic engagement (deliberative dialogue) with the public to reach resourceFULL™ decisions--a decision based on diverse sources of information…

  9. 38 CFR 41.405 - Management decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Management decision. 41... Entities § 41.405 Management decision. (a) General. The management decision shall clearly state whether or... completed corrective action, a timetable for follow-up should be given. Prior to issuing the management...

  10. 38 CFR 41.405 - Management decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Management decision. 41... Entities § 41.405 Management decision. (a) General. The management decision shall clearly state whether or... completed corrective action, a timetable for follow-up should be given. Prior to issuing the management...

  11. 38 CFR 41.405 - Management decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Management decision. 41... Entities § 41.405 Management decision. (a) General. The management decision shall clearly state whether or... completed corrective action, a timetable for follow-up should be given. Prior to issuing the management...

  12. 38 CFR 41.405 - Management decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Management decision. 41... Entities § 41.405 Management decision. (a) General. The management decision shall clearly state whether or... completed corrective action, a timetable for follow-up should be given. Prior to issuing the management...

  13. 38 CFR 41.405 - Management decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Management decision. 41... Entities § 41.405 Management decision. (a) General. The management decision shall clearly state whether or... completed corrective action, a timetable for follow-up should be given. Prior to issuing the management...

  14. Visualising Uncertainty for Decision Support

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-12-01

    25 4.2.7 The perceived trust level of information in decision making ......... 26 4.3 User issues...crucial to understanding the “reliability” of information , and consequently affect decision making (Deitrick, 2007). Olston and Mackinlay (2002...have long been regarded as a difficult topic since the commander has to make decisions in a limited time frame with information that comes from

  15. Implementation Issues for Departure Planning Systems

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hansman, R. John; Feron, Eric; Clarke, John-Paul; Odoni, Amedeo

    1999-01-01

    The objective of the proposed effort is to investigate issues associated with the design and implementation of decision aiding tools to assist in improving the departure process at congested airports. This effort follows a preliminary investigation of potential Departure Planning approaches and strategies, which identified potential benefits in departure efficiency, and also in reducing the environmental impact of aircraft in the departure queue. The preliminary study bas based, in large part, on observations and analysis of departure processes at Boston, Logan airport. The objective of this follow-on effort is to address key implementation issues and to expand the observational base to include airports with different constraints and traffic demand. Specifically, the objectives of this research are to: (1) Expand the observational base to include airports with different underlying operational dynamics. (2) Develop prototype decision aiding algorithms/approaches and assess potential benefits. and (3) Investigate Human Machine Integration (HMI) issues associated with decision aids in tower environments.

  16. Disciplinary and Academic Decisions Pertaining to Students: A Review of the 1997 Judicial Decisions.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stoner, Edward N.; Schupansky, Susan P.

    1998-01-01

    Reviews key cases concerning disciplinary and academic decisions in higher education handed down by courts in 1997. Cases touched on procedural due process (for medical residents, academic versus disciplinary decisions, other notable issues), double jeopardy, breach of contract, student discipline records under the Family Education Rights and…

  17. 10 CFR 824.13 - Initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Initial decision. 824.13 Section 824.13 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PROCEDURAL RULES FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL PENALTIES FOR CLASSIFIED INFORMATION SECURITY VIOLATIONS § 824.13 Initial decision. (a) The Hearing Officer shall issue an initial decision as soon as...

  18. 48 CFR 32.605 - Final decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... REQUIREMENTS CONTRACT FINANCING Contract Debts 32.605 Final decisions. (a) The contracting officer shall issue a final decision as required by 33.211 if— (1) The contracting officer and the contractor are unable... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Final decisions. 32.605...

  19. 29 CFR 1905.41 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 5 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Summary decision. 1905.41 Section 1905.41 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR RULES OF... OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970 Summary Decisions § 1905.41 Summary decision. (a) No genuine issue...

  20. 17 CFR 171.21 - Notice of final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... Futures Association shall promptly serve all parties, as well as the Proceedings Clerk and the Secretary... decision issued by the National Futures Association. (b) Content of the notice. At a minimum, the notice... notice. (1) If the National Futures Association issues a notice of a final decision subject to these...

  1. 17 CFR 171.21 - Notice of final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... Futures Association shall promptly serve all parties, as well as the Proceedings Clerk and the Secretary... decision issued by the National Futures Association. (b) Content of the notice. At a minimum, the notice... notice. (1) If the National Futures Association issues a notice of a final decision subject to these...

  2. 17 CFR 171.21 - Notice of final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Futures Association shall promptly serve all parties, as well as the Proceedings Clerk and the Secretary... decision issued by the National Futures Association. (b) Content of the notice. At a minimum, the notice... notice. (1) If the National Futures Association issues a notice of a final decision subject to these...

  3. 17 CFR 171.21 - Notice of final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... Futures Association shall promptly serve all parties, as well as the Proceedings Clerk and the Secretary... decision issued by the National Futures Association. (b) Content of the notice. At a minimum, the notice... notice. (1) If the National Futures Association issues a notice of a final decision subject to these...

  4. 17 CFR 171.21 - Notice of final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Futures Association shall promptly serve all parties, as well as the Proceedings Clerk and the Secretary... decision issued by the National Futures Association. (b) Content of the notice. At a minimum, the notice... notice. (1) If the National Futures Association issues a notice of a final decision subject to these...

  5. 45 CFR 160.512 - Prehearing conferences.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... issues; (2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings, including the need for a more... expeditious disposition of the proceedings, including the protection of privacy of individually identifiable... appropriate. (c) The ALJ must issue an order containing the matters agreed upon by the parties or ordered by...

  6. 78 FR 41079 - Certain Semiconductor Chips With Dram Circuitry, and Modules and Products Containing Same

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-07-09

    ... determined to review-in-part the final initial determination issued by the presiding administrative law judge... investigation. On March 26, 2013, the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') issued a final ID finding a... importation, sale for importation, and sale after importation of Nanya semiconductors. What is Elpida's theory...

  7. 33 CFR 20.403 - Consolidation and severance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... GUARD Proceedings § 20.403 Consolidation and severance. (a) A presiding ALJ may for good cause, with the... matters at issue in two or more administrative proceedings docketed under this part. (Good cause includes the proceedings' possessing common parties, questions of fact, and issues of law and presenting the...

  8. 33 CFR 20.403 - Consolidation and severance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... GUARD Proceedings § 20.403 Consolidation and severance. (a) A presiding ALJ may for good cause, with the... matters at issue in two or more administrative proceedings docketed under this part. (Good cause includes the proceedings' possessing common parties, questions of fact, and issues of law and presenting the...

  9. Issues in Developing a Normative Descriptive Model for Dyadic Decision Making

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Serfaty, D.; Kleinman, D. L.

    1984-01-01

    Most research in modelling human information processing and decision making has been devoted to the case of the single human operator. In the present effort, concepts from the fields of organizational behavior, engineering psychology, team theory and mathematical modelling are merged in an attempt to consider first the case of two cooperating decisionmakers (the Dyad) in a multi-task environment. Rooted in the well-known Dynamic Decision Model (DDM), the normative descriptive approach brings basic cognitive and psychophysical characteristics inherent to human behavior into a team theoretic analytic framework. An experimental paradigm, involving teams in dynamic decision making tasks, is designed to produce the data with which to build the theoretical model.

  10. 34 CFR 32.9 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Written decision. 32.9 Section 32.9 Education Office of the Secretary, Department of Education SALARY OFFSET TO RECOVER OVERPAYMENTS OF PAY OR ALLOWANCES FROM DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EMPLOYEES § 32.9 Written decision. (a) The hearing official issues a written decision...

  11. 21 CFR 12.93 - Summary decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Summary decisions. 12.93 Section 12.93 Food and... PUBLIC HEARING Hearing Procedures § 12.93 Summary decisions. (a) After the hearing commences, a participant may move, with or without supporting affidavits, for a summary decision on any issue in the...

  12. 75 FR 80844 - In the Matter of Certain Digital Television Products and Certain Products Containing Same and...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-12-23

    ...; Notice of Commission Decision Not To Review an Initial Determination (Order No. 40) Granting a Motion To... determined not to review the presiding administrative law judge's (``ALJ'') initial determination granting complainants' motion to withdraw the enforcement complaint in the above-captioned proceeding, and has...

  13. Decisions Concerning Directional Dependence

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    von Eye, Alexander; DeShon, Richard P.

    2012-01-01

    In this rejoinder, von Eye and DeShon discuss the decision strategies proposed in their original article ("Directional Dependence in Developmental Research," this issue), as well as the ones proposed by the authors of the commentary (Pornprasertmanit and Little, "Determining Directional Dependency in Causal Associations," this issue). In addition,…

  14. Procedures for the Handling of Retaliation Complaints Under Section 1558 of the Affordable Care Act. Final rule.

    PubMed

    2016-10-13

    This document provides the final text of regulations governing employee protection (retaliation or whistleblower) claims under section 1558 of the Affordable Care Act, which added section 18C to the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide protections to employees who may have been subject to retaliation for seeking assistance under certain affordability assistance provisions (for example, health insurance premium tax credits) or for reporting potential violations of the Affordable Care Act's consumer protections (for example, the prohibition on rescissions). An interim final rule (IFR) governing these provisions and request for comments was published in the Federal Register on February 27, 2013. Thirteen comments were received; eleven were responsive to the IFR. This rule responds to those comments and establishes the final procedures and time frames for the handling of retaliation complaints under section 18C, including procedures and time frames for employee complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), investigations by OSHA, appeals of OSHA determinations to an administrative law judge (ALJ) for a hearing de novo, hearings by ALJs, review of ALJ decisions by the Administrative Review Board (ARB) (acting on behalf of the Secretary of Labor), and judicial review of the Secretary of Labor's (Secretary's) final decision. It also sets forth the Secretary's interpretations of the Affordable Care Act whistleblower provision on certain matters.

  15. Decision Difficulty and Recall of Prose.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Benton, Stephen L.; And Others

    1983-01-01

    Seven experiments were performed to address three issues: prose decisions of different levels of difficulty, directed attention effect, and the effects of decisions on memorability of prose among relatively good and relatively poor readers. (Author/PN)

  16. 36 CFR 251.99 - Appeal decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... decision. (a) The Reviewing Officer shall base the appeal decision on the appeal record and applicable laws... level of appeal, the Reviewing Officer shall make and issue an appeal decision within 30 days of the date the record is closed. (d) At the second level of appeal provided in § 251.87(c), the Reviewing...

  17. 15 CFR 280.209 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Summary decision. 280.209 Section 280... QUALITY Enforcement § 280.209 Summary decision. At any time after a proceeding has been initiated, a party may move for a summary decision disposing of some or all of the issues. The administrative law judge...

  18. 15 CFR 766.8 - Summary decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Summary decision. 766.8 Section 766.8... PROCEEDINGS § 766.8 Summary decision. At any time after a proceeding has been initiated, a party may move for a summary decision disposing of some or all of the issues. The administrative law judge may render...

  19. 75 FR 82071 - In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-12-29

    ... INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [Investigation No. 337-TA-664] In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission Decision Not To Review the ALJ'S Final... States after importation of certain flash memory chips and products containing the same by reason of...

  20. 75 FR 82071 - In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-12-29

    ... INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [Investigation No. 337-TA-664] In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission Decision Not To Review the ALJ's Final... flash memory chips and products containing the same by reason of infringement of various claims of...

  1. Developing a rapid-response program for health system decision-makers in Canada: findings from an issue brief and stakeholder dialogue.

    PubMed

    Wilson, Michael G; Lavis, John N; Gauvin, Francois-Pierre

    2015-03-11

    There is currently no mechanism in place outside of government to provide rapid syntheses of the best available research evidence about problems, options and/or implementation considerations related to a specific health system challenge that Canadian health system decision-makers need to address in a timely manner. A 'rapid-response' program could address this gap by providing access to optimally packaged, relevant and high-quality research evidence over short periods of time (i.e. days or weeks). We prepared an issue brief that describes the best available research evidence related to the problem, three broad features of a program that addresses the problem and implementation considerations. We identified systematic reviews by searching for organization-targeted implementation strategies in Health Systems Evidence ( www.healthsystemsevidence.org ) and drew on an existing analytical framework for how knowledge-brokering organizations can organize themselves to operationalize the program features. The issue brief was then used to inform a half-day stakeholder dialogue about whether and how to develop a rapid-response program for health system decision-makers in Canada. We thematically synthesized the deliberations. We found very few relevant systematic reviews but used frameworks and examples from existing programs to 1) outline key considerations for organizing a rapid-response program,, 2) determine what can be done in timelines ranging from 3 to 10 and 30 business days, and 3) define success and measure it. The 11 dialogue participants from across Canada largely agreed with the content presented in the brief, but noted two key challenges to consider: securing stable, long-term funding and finding a way to effectively and equitably manage the expected demand. Recommendations and suggestions for next steps from dialogue participants included taking an 'organic' approach to developing a pan-Canadian network and including jurisdictional scans as a type of product to

  2. 12 CFR 308.517 - Authority of the ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) Administer oaths and affirmations; (5) Issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses and the... regarding the validity of federal statutes or regulations or of directives, rules, resolutions, policies...

  3. Learning to Make Decisions Through Constructive Controversy.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Tjosvold, Dean

    Students must make decisions about their lifestyle, future careers, academic pursuits, and classroom and school issues. Learning to make effective decisions for themselves and for society is an important aspect of competence. They can learn decision making through interacting and solving problems with others. A central ingredient for successful…

  4. 10 CFR 1003.77 - Decision and Order.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... relevant information received or obtained during the proceeding, the OHA will issue a Decision and Order... a written statement setting forth the relevant facts and legal basis for the Decision and Order...

  5. 21 CFR 17.17 - Summary decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 21 Food and Drugs 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Summary decisions. 17.17 Section 17.17 Food and... PENALTIES HEARINGS § 17.17 Summary decisions. (a) At any time after the filing of a complaint, a party may... declarations under penalty of perjury), for a summary decision on any issue in the hearing. The other party may...

  6. Engaging Pupils in Decision-Making about Biodiversity Conservation Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Grace, Marcus; Byrne, Jenny

    2010-01-01

    Our pupils' generation will eventually have the daunting responsibility of making decisions about local and global biodiversity. School provides an early opportunity for them to enter into formal discussion about the science and values associated with biodiversity conservation; but the crowded curriculum offers little time for such activities.…

  7. 30 CFR 732.13 - Decision by the Secretary.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Decision by the Secretary. 732.13 Section 732... DISAPPROVAL OF STATE PROGRAM SUBMISSIONS § 732.13 Decision by the Secretary. (a) After consideration of the... Secretary shall issue to the State in writing, either a decision approving or an initial decision...

  8. 34 CFR 668.120 - Decision of the Secretary.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Decision of the Secretary. 668.120 Section 668.120... Determinations and Program Review Determinations § 668.120 Decision of the Secretary. (a)(1) The Secretary issues a final decision. The Secretary may affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the hearing official...

  9. 30 CFR 732.13 - Decision by the Secretary.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Decision by the Secretary. 732.13 Section 732... DISAPPROVAL OF STATE PROGRAM SUBMISSIONS § 732.13 Decision by the Secretary. (a) After consideration of the... Secretary shall issue to the State in writing, either a decision approving or an initial decision...

  10. 30 CFR 732.13 - Decision by the Secretary.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 30 Mineral Resources 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Decision by the Secretary. 732.13 Section 732... DISAPPROVAL OF STATE PROGRAM SUBMISSIONS § 732.13 Decision by the Secretary. (a) After consideration of the... Secretary shall issue to the State in writing, either a decision approving or an initial decision...

  11. 17 CFR 201.360 - Initial decision of hearing officer.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... with the Secretary, as well as any other time limits established in orders issued by the hearing... include: Findings and conclusions, and the reasons or basis therefor, as to all the material issues of... decision, except for good cause shown, within which a petition for review of the initial decision may be...

  12. 49 CFR 821.49 - Issues on appeal.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 49 Transportation 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Issues on appeal. 821.49 Section 821.49... RULES OF PRACTICE IN AIR SAFETY PROCEEDINGS Appeal From Initial Decision § 821.49 Issues on appeal. (a) On appeal, the Board will consider only the following issues: (1) Are the findings of fact each...

  13. 48 CFR 6103.306 - Decisions [Rule 306].

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Decisions [Rule 306]. 6103.306 Section 6103.306 Federal Acquisition Regulations System CIVILIAN BOARD OF CONTRACT APPEALS, GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION TRANSPORTATION RATE CASES 6103.306 Decisions [Rule 306]. The judge will issue a written decision based upon the record,...

  14. Teaching Students to Make Better Decisions about the Environment: Lessons from the Decision Sciences

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Arvai, Joseph L.; Campbell, Victoria E. A.; Baird, Anne; Rivers, Louie

    2004-01-01

    One of the fundamental goals of environmental education (EE) is to equip students with the skills to make more thoughtful decisions about environmental issues. Many examples of environmental and science education curricula work to address this goal by providing students with up-to-date information about a myriad of environmental issues from a…

  15. Public health decisions: Actions and consequences☆

    PubMed Central

    Pohl, H.R.; Jones, D.E.; Holler, J.S.; Murray, H.E.

    2017-01-01

    The goal of public health is to promote the best possible health for the whole population. Public health issues are numerous and can be unbelievably complex in form, scope, and possible consequence. Most public health decisions involve assessing several different options, weighing the respective benefits and risks of those options, and making difficult decisions that hopefully provide the greatest benefit to the affected populations. Many risk management decisions involve a variety of societal factors which modify risk assessment choices. The purpose of this paper is to point out difficulties in making decisions that impact public health. The intent of such decisions is to improve public health, but as illustrated in the paper, there can be unintended adverse consequences. Such unplanned issues require continued attention and efforts for responsible officials in the protection of environmental public health. This article presents examples of such events, when in the past, it was necessary to assess and regulate a number of potentially hazardous chemicals commonly used as insecticides, gasoline additives, and wood preservatives. PMID:25092130

  16. 77 FR 72387 - Jeffery J. Becker, D.D.S., and Jeffery J. Becker, D.D.S., Affordable Care Decision and Order

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-12-05

    ....' '' Order Regarding Respondent's Multiple Motions For Appropriate Relief (ALJ Ex. 25), at 10 (quoting Forest... silent on the requirements of a registrant under 21 CFR 1307.21.'' Gov. Resp. to Respondent's Motion to...

  17. The Heat Is On: Decision-Maker Perspectives on When and How to Issue a Heat Warning

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    O'Neill, M.; Sampson, N.; McCormick, S.; Rood, R. B.; Buxton, M.; Ebi, K. L.; Gronlund, C. J.; Zhang, K.; Catalano, L.; White-Newsome, J. L.; Conlon, K. C.; Parker, E. A.

    2011-12-01

    To better understand how to prevent illness and deaths during hot weather, particularly among at-risk populations, we conducted a study in Detroit, Michigan; Phoenix, Arizona; New York, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our aims were to characterize and better understand how heatwave and health early warning systems (HHWS) and related prevention and sustainability programs can be more widely and effectively implemented. Specifically, we here report on the scientific evidence, expert judgments and the process used in deciding to trigger a HHWS and activate public health and social services interventions. We conducted interviews with public officials who decide if and when heat advisories/warnings are issued. After transcribing the interviews, we used a qualitative analysis software, QSR NVivo 9.0, to assign codes to portions of text from each transcript and allow analysis of information with common themes across the data. For example, several sentences in a transcript discussing a heat index might be coded as 'definition of heat wave'. A common theme across cities was that deciding what type of weather is dangerous to health is not straightforward. The time in season that heat occurs; the duration of the heat; the level of humidity and other meteorological factors; the extent to which temperatures drop at night, allowing people to cool off; and prevailing weather conditions all play a role. A single 'safe' threshold is unrealistic because people's individual sensitivity, housing, surrounding environments, behaviors, and access to air conditioning can differ greatly. However, choices must be made as to the trigger for the HHWS. Although quantitative analysis with health data (mortality, hospital admissions) can inform the design of the triggers, historical analysis has limitations, and decisions to issue heat warnings are sometimes related to planned activities, such as parades or fairs, that may expose large numbers of people to heat. The HHWS approach

  18. Human Judgment and Decision Making: A Proposed Decision Model Using Sequential Processing

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1985-08-01

    to the issues noted above is called policy capturing ( Szilagyi and Wallace , 1983). 4 The purpose of policy capturing is to develop a decision making...papers have been written on this general subject. A concise overview of this discipline is found in Szilagyi and Wallace (1983). Basically, decision models... Szilagyi , A. and Wallace , H. Organizational Behavior and Performance (3rd Ed.), Scott, Foresman and Company, 1983. Taylor, R. L. and Wilsted, W. D

  19. Decision-making in adult thalassemia patients undergoing unrelated bone marrow transplantation: quality of life, communication and ethical issues.

    PubMed

    Caocci, G; Pisu, S; Argiolu, F; Giardini, C; Locatelli, F; Vacca, A; Orofino, M G; Piras, E; De Stefano, P; Addari, M C; Ledda, A; La Nasa, G

    2006-01-01

    Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) represents a potentially curative treatment of thalassemia. For patients without an HLA-identical sibling donor, recourse to an unrelated donor is a practicable option but the candidates and their families are faced with a difficult decision. They can either choose to continue the supportive therapy, with no chance of definitive cure, or they accept the mortality risk of BMT in the hope of obtaining a definitive resolution of the disease. We investigated the communication strategies and the post transplantation quality of life (QoL) in 19 adult thalassemia patients surviving after an unrelated donor BMT. The patients were given two questionnaires: a questionnaire to evaluate pre-transplantation communication factors and the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire to assess global QoL. All patients were satisfied with the communication modalities employed by the physicians. The global post transplantation QoL in our patient cohort was found to be good. The approach used in this study may offer a contribution to understanding the decision-making process leading to the choice of a treatment with a high mortality risk for a chronic, non-malignant disease. Finally, some ethical issues of this therapeutic approach are briefly addressed.

  20. Decision analysis in formulary decision making.

    PubMed

    Schechter, C B

    1993-06-01

    Although decision making about what drugs to include in an institutional formulary appears to lend itself readily to quantitative techniques such as decision analysis and cost-benefit analysis, a review of the literature reveals that very little has been published in this area. Several of the published decision analyses use non-standard techniques that are, at best, of unproved validity, and may seriously distort the underlying issues through covert under-counting or double-counting of various drug attributes. Well executed decision analyses have contributed to establishing that drug acquisition costs are not an adequate measure of the total economic impact of formulary decisions and that costs of labour and materials associated with drug administration must be calculated on an institution-specific basis to reflect unique staffing patterns, bulk purchasing practices, and the availability of surplus capacity within the institution which might be mobilised at little marginal cost. Clinical studies of newly introduced drugs frequently fail to answer the questions that weigh most heavily on the structuring of a formal assessment of a proposed formulary acquisition. Studies comparing a full spectrum of therapeutically equivalent drugs are rarely done, and individual studies of particular pairs of drugs can rarely be used together because of differences in methodology or patient populations studied. Gathering of institution-specific economic and clinical data is a daunting, labour-intensive task. In many institutions, incentive and reward structures discourage behaviour that takes the broad institutional perspective that is intrinsic to a good decision analysis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

  1. Legal Issues in Teacher Evaluation. Handbook.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.

    Various legal issues associated with teacher evaluation and significant court decisions are summarized in this handbook. Three major legal issues are defined: (1) failure of the school district to follow due process when terminating tenured and non-tenured teachers, or when abolishing positions; (2) discrimination in employment and promotion, or…

  2. Nurse Managers' Decisions: Fast and Favoring Remediation

    PubMed Central

    Effken, Judith A.; Verran, Joyce A.; Logue, Melanie D.; Hsu, Ya-Chuan

    2010-01-01

    How do nurse managers make decisions about quality issues on their units? We asked 10 nurse managers in 3 Arizona hospitals to describe how they resolved a recent quality issue. The managers tended to use a linear, but cognitively expensive strategy, often jumping from problem to solution without a clear goal and selecting solutions biased toward remedial education. Decision support tools should help managers think more systemically, systematically and efficiently, while encouraging consideration of more alternatives to reach targeted goals. PMID:20305465

  3. 29 CFR 1955.44 - Final decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 9 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Final decision. 1955.44 Section 1955.44 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (CONTINUED..., the Secretary shall issue a final decision ruling upon each exception and objection filed. The final...

  4. 77 FR 56672 - Certain Light-Emitting Diodes and Products Containing the Same; Determination To Review a Final...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-09-13

    ...Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review in part the final initial determination (``ID'') issued by the presiding administrative law judge (``ALJ'') on July 9, 2012, in the above-captioned investigation.

  5. Electronic tracking for people with dementia: an exploratory study of the ethical issues experienced by carers in making decisions about usage.

    PubMed

    White, Eleanor Bantry; Montgomery, Paul

    2014-03-01

    Electronic tracking through GPS (global positioning system) is being used to monitor and locate people with dementia who are vulnerable to becoming lost. Through a review of the literature and an original study, this article examined ethical issues associated with use in a domestic setting. The qualitative study consisted of in-depth interviews with 10 carers who were using electronic tracking. The study explored the values, beliefs and contextual factors that motivated carers to use electronic tracking. It examined the extent of involvement of the person with dementia in decision-making and it explored the various ethical dilemmas encountered by carers when introducing the tracking system. As an issue that emerged from the interviews, specific attention was paid to exploring covert usage. From the study findings, recommendations have been made for research and practice about the use of electronic tracking in dementia care.

  6. Legal Considerations in Clinical Decision Making.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ursu, Samuel C.

    1992-01-01

    Discussion of legal issues in dental clinical decision making looks at the nature and elements of applicable law, especially malpractice, locus of responsibility, and standards of care. Greater use of formal decision analysis in clinical dentistry and better research on diagnosis and treatment are recommended, particularly in light of increasing…

  7. 5 CFR 1215.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 5 Administrative Personnel 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Written decision. 1215.6 Section 1215.6 Administrative Personnel MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES DEBT MANAGEMENT Salary Offset § 1215.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a written opinion no later than 60 days...

  8. 17 CFR 141.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Written decision. 141.6....6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a written opinion no later than 60 days after the hearing. (b) The written opinion will include a statement of the facts presented to...

  9. 45 CFR 607.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Written decision. 607.6 Section 607.6 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SALARY OFFSET § 607.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a final written opinion no later than 60...

  10. 45 CFR 607.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Written decision. 607.6 Section 607.6 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SALARY OFFSET § 607.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a final written opinion no later than 60...

  11. 45 CFR 607.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... 45 Public Welfare 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Written decision. 607.6 Section 607.6 Public Welfare Regulations Relating to Public Welfare (Continued) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SALARY OFFSET § 607.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a final written opinion no later than 60...

  12. Diverse decisions. How culture affects ethical decision making.

    PubMed

    Wright, F; Cohen, S; Caroselli, C

    1997-03-01

    Even under optimal conditions, assisting patients and families in making ethical decisions is difficult at best. Often these decisions revolve around the end-of-life issues that require acknowledgement that the patient is unlikely to survive, which may be perceived as a failure to both the family and the staff. At the very least, it can be a sad time, fraught with uncertainty and indecision. When these difficulties are coupled with ineffective communication related to cultural insensitivity or unawareness, the effects can be devastating to the decision-making process. All CCNs are expected to master the skills necessary for assisting patients and families through the harrowing experience of life-threatening illness. Whereas much of critical care focuses on managing pathophysiologic disturbances, emotional needs are equally important. It follows then that the CCN must assume responsibility for assisting patients and families in coping with the crisis of critical illness and working through ethical issues, which often include end-of-life decisions and organ donation. Culturally competent care is required when addressing patient needs holistically, but it is so much more. It is an opportunity to enrich and deepen the CCN/patient/family relationship, advocate for the patient, and broaden the opportunities for communication among staff. This article has provided some beginning steps for increasing nursing cultural awareness and has offered some initial strategies to consider when designing a plan of care. Through continuing efforts, CCNs and organizations can do much to decrease the alienation that many patients and families have traditionally encountered in the CCU, an estrangement that is exacerbated when their culture is different from the predominant culture of the unit. The effort to become more culturally aware may appear to require extraordinary effort; however, the rewards of optimizing patient care are unsurpassed.

  13. Comparative Issues and Methods in Organizational Diagnosis. Report II. The Decision Tree Approach.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    organizational diagnosis . The advantages and disadvantages of the decision-tree approach generally, and in this study specifically, are examined. A pre-test, using a civilian sample of 174 work groups with Survey of Organizations data, was conducted to assess various decision-tree classification criteria, in terms of their similarity to the distance function used by Bowers and Hausser (1977). The results suggested the use of a large developmental sample, which should result in more distinctly defined boundary lines between classification profiles. Also, the decision matrix

  14. 77 FR 29637 - Game Show Network, LLC v. Cablevision Systems Corp.

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    2012-05-18

    ... FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION [MB Docket No. 12-122; File No. CSR-8529-P; DA 12-739] Game Show... Administrative Law Judge (``ALJ'') to resolve the factual disputes and to return an Initial Decision. DATES: Game... control. 6. GSN is a national cable network launched on December 1, 1994 under the name ``Game Show...

  15. Role of Technology in Decision Making: Exploring Land-Use Decisions

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Zaino, Maureen A.

    2012-01-01

    Increases in population, climatic changes, and other environmental issues are current challenges affecting the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) decision to examine land-use trends and emphasize efficient use and reuse of limited resources. Because of global concerns involving limited natural resources, researchers recognize land-use decision…

  16. The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kottak, Conrad Phillip, Ed.; White, Jane J., Ed.; Furlow, Richard H., Ed.; Rice, Patricia C., Ed.

    This volume brings together the insights of more than 40 contributors who demonstrate that anthropology has timely, important, and enduring messages for students and the public. The book provides the first comprehensive examination of teaching issues across all the subfields of anthropology since the 1963 publication of "The Teaching of…

  17. A New Approach: Making Ethical Decisions regarding Adult Learner Issues.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Missey, Jeanne T.

    Many new student affairs professionals have had little or no experience in applying such codes to different learners. How to address issues where codes are insufficient and how to make student affairs professionals sensitive to the moral and ethical issues of adult learners are addressed in this paper. It is not meant as a guide, but as a tool for…

  18. 16 CFR 1027.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 16 Commercial Practices 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Written decision. 1027.6 Section 1027.6 Commercial Practices CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION GENERAL SALARY OFFSET § 1027.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a final written opinion no later than 60 days after the filing of the...

  19. 32 CFR 1697.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 6 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Written decision. 1697.6 Section 1697.6 National... Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a written opinion no later than 60 days after the hearing. (b) The written opinion will include: a statement of the facts presented to demonstrate the...

  20. Science-based decision-making on complex issues: Marcellus shale gas hydrofracking and New York City water supply.

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    Eaton, Timothy T

    2013-09-01

    Complex scientific and non-scientific considerations are central to the pending decisions about "hydrofracking" or high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) to exploit unconventional natural gas resources worldwide. While incipient plans are being made internationally for major shale reservoirs, production and technology are most advanced in the United States, particularly in Texas and Pennsylvania, with a pending decision in New York State whether to proceed. In contrast to the narrow scientific and technical debate to date, focused on either greenhouse gas emissions or water resources, toxicology and land use in the watersheds that supply drinking water to New York City (NYC), I review the scientific and technical aspects in combination with global climate change and other critical issues in energy tradeoffs, economics and political regulation to evaluate the major liabilities and benefits. Although potential benefits of Marcellus natural gas exploitation are large for transition to a clean energy economy, at present the regulatory framework in New York State is inadequate to prevent potentially irreversible threats to the local environment and New York City water supply. Major investments in state and federal regulatory enforcement will be required to avoid these environmental consequences, and a ban on drilling within the NYC water supply watersheds is appropriate, even if more highly regulated Marcellus gas production is eventually permitted elsewhere in New York State. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  1. Caring Decisions: The Development of a Written Resource for Parents Facing End-of-Life Decisions

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    Gillam, Lynn; Hynson, Jenny; Sullivan, Jane; Cossich, Mary; Wilkinson, Dominic

    2015-01-01

    Abstract Background: Written resources in adult intensive care have been shown to benefit families facing end of life (EoL) decisions. There are few resources for parents making EoL decisions for their child and no existing resources addressing ethical issues. The Caring Decisions handbook and website were developed to fill these gaps. Aim: We discuss the development of the resources, modification after reviewer feedback and findings from initial pilot implementation. Design: A targeted literature review-to identify resources and factors that impact on parental EoL decision-making; development phase-guided by the literature and the researchers' expertise; consultation process-comprised a multi-disciplinary panel of experts and parents; pilot evaluation study-hard-copy handbook was distributed as part of routine care at an Australian Children's Hospital. Setting/Participants: Twelve experts and parents formed the consultation panel. Eight parents of children with life-limiting conditions and clinicians were interviewed in the pilot study. Results: Numerous factors supporting/impeding EoL decisions were identified. Caring Decisions addressed issues identified in the literature and by the multidisciplinary research team. The consultation panel provided overwhelmingly positive feedback. Pilot study parents found the resources helpful and comforting. Most clinicians viewed the resources as very beneficial to parents and identified them as ideal for training purposes. Conclusions: The development of the resources addressed many of the gaps in existing resources. The consultation process and the pilot study suggest these resources could be of significant benefit to parents and clinicians. PMID:26418215

  2. 49 CFR 1503.657 - Appeal from initial decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... AND ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES Rules of Practice in TSA Civil Penalty Actions § 1503.657 Appeal from... order of the TSA decision maker have been entered on the record. (b) Issues on appeal. A party may... appeal with the consent of the TSA decision maker. If the TSA decision maker grants an extension of time...

  3. 20 CFR 416.1439 - Objections to the issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Objections to the issues. 416.1439 Section... Decisions Hearing Before An Administrative Law Judge § 416.1439 Objections to the issues. If you object to the issues to be decided upon at the hearing, you must notify the administrative law judge in writing...

  4. 20 CFR 404.939 - Objections to the issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Objections to the issues. 404.939 Section 404... Decisions Hearing Before An Administrative Law Judge § 404.939 Objections to the issues. If you object to the issues to be decided upon at the hearing, you must notify the administrative law judge in writing...

  5. Scientific Literacy for Democratic Decision-Making

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    Yacoubian, Hagop A.

    2018-01-01

    Scientifically literate citizens must be able to engage in making decisions on science-based social issues. In this paper, I start by showing examples of science curricula and policy documents that capitalise the importance of engaging future citizens in decision-making processes whether at the personal or at the societal levels. I elucidate the…

  6. 22 CFR 1007.6 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Written decision. 1007.6 Section 1007.6 Foreign Relations INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION SALARY OFFSET § 1007.6 Written decision. (a) The hearing official shall issue a written opinion no later than 60 days after the hearing. (b) The written opinion will include: a...

  7. Critical Endowment Policy Issues

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lapovsky, Lucie

    2007-01-01

    Governing boards and administrations wrestle with complex endowment policy decisions that will determine current institutional quality and future institutional viability. This chapter presents data from the 2006 NACUBO Endowment Study (published in 2007), divided into the following issues of endowment management: historical returns; endowment…

  8. Teaching science for public understanding: Developing decision-making abilities

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    Siegel, Marcelle A.

    One of the most important challenges educators have is teaching students how to make decisions about complex issues. In this study, methods designed to enhance students' decision-making skills and attitudes were investigated. An issue-oriented science curriculum was partly replaced with activities designed by the experimenter. The first objective of the study was to examine the effects of an instructional method to increase students' use of relevant scientific evidence in their decisions. The second goal of the research was to test whether the instructional activities could promote students' beliefs that science is relevant to them, because attitudes have been shown to affect students' performance and persistence (Schommer, 1994). Third, the study was designed to determine whether the instructional activities would affect students' beliefs that their intelligence is not fixed but can grow; this question is based on Dweck and Leggett's (1988) definition of two orientations toward intelligence---entity theorists and incremental theorists (Dweck & Leggett, 1988; Dweck & Henderson, 1989). Two urban high-school classrooms participated in this study. Tenth graders examined scientific materials about current issues involving technology and society. Instructional materials on decision making were prepared for one class of students to enhance their regular issue-oriented course, Science and Sustainability. A computer program, called Convince Me (Schank, Ranney & Hoadley, 1996), provided scaffolding for making an evidence-based decision. The experimental group's activities also included pen-and-paper lessons on decision making and the effect of experience on the structure of the brain. The control class continued to engage in Science and Sustainability decision-making activities during the time the experimental class completed the treatment. The control group did not show significant improvement on decision-making tasks, and the experimental group showed marginally

  9. Community Bioethics: The Health Decisions Community Council.

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    Gallegos, Tom; Mrgudic, Kate

    1993-01-01

    Sees health care decision making posing variety of complex issues for individuals, families, and providers. Describes Health Decisions Community Council (HDCC), community-based bioethics committee established to offer noninstitutional forum for discussion of health care dilemmas. Notes that social work skills and values for autonomy and…

  10. 33 CFR 20.502 - Settlements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Settlements. 20.502 Section 20... Settlements § 20.502 Settlements. (a) The parties may submit a proposed settlement to the ALJ. (b) The proposed settlement must be in the form of a proposed decision, accompanied by a motion for its entry. The...

  11. [Bioethics in end-of-life decisions in neonatology: Unresolved issues].

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    Arnaez, Juan; Tejedor, Juan Carlos; Caserío, Sonia; Montes, María Teresa; Moral, María Teresa; González de Dios, Javier; García-Alix, Alfredo

    2017-12-01

    This document is the result of previous work carried out by different expert groups and submitted to multidisciplinary debate at a Conference about controversial, deficient, or new aspects in the field of neonatal palliative care, such as: 1) the deliberative decision-making process, 2) hospital and domiciliary palliative care, 3) donation after controlled cardiac death, and 4) moral stress in professionals. The most relevant conclusions were: the need to instruct professionals in bioethics and in the deliberative method to facilitate thorough and reasonable decision-making; the lack of development in the field of perinatal palliative care and domiciliary palliative care in hospitals that attend newborns; the need to provide neonatal units with resources that help train professionals in communication skills and in the management of moral distress, as well as delineate operational procedure and guidelines for neonatal organ donation. Copyright © 2017 Asociación Española de Pediatría. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

  12. System for decision analysis support on complex waste management issues

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Shropshire, D.E.

    1997-10-01

    A software system called the Waste Flow Analysis has been developed and applied to complex environmental management processes for the United States Department of Energy (US DOE). The system can evaluate proposed methods of waste retrieval, treatment, storage, transportation, and disposal. Analysts can evaluate various scenarios to see the impacts to waste slows and schedules, costs, and health and safety risks. Decision analysis capabilities have been integrated into the system to help identify preferred alternatives based on a specific objectives may be to maximize the waste moved to final disposition during a given time period, minimize health risks, minimize costs,more » or combinations of objectives. The decision analysis capabilities can support evaluation of large and complex problems rapidly, and under conditions of variable uncertainty. The system is being used to evaluate environmental management strategies to safely disposition wastes in the next ten years and reduce the environmental legacy resulting from nuclear material production over the past forty years.« less

  13. 76 FR 13433 - In the Matter of Certain Mems Devices and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission Decision...

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    2011-03-11

    ... microelectromechanical systems (``MEMS'') devices and products containing the same by reason of infringement of certain... recommendation on remedy and bonding during the period of Presidential review. The ALJ found no section 337... be construed as ``a system that includes a heated chamber,'' is it the contention of Complainant and...

  14. 42 CFR 93.412 - Making decisions on institutional noncompliance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Making decisions on institutional noncompliance. 93... Institutional Compliance Issues § 93.412 Making decisions on institutional noncompliance. (a) Institutions must... unwillingness to implement and follow the requirements of this part and its assurance. In making this decision...

  15. Trust and Decision Making: An Empirical Platform

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-06-01

    13th ICCRTS “C2 for Complex Endeavors” Trust and Decision Making : An Empirical Platform Topic(s): Cognitive and Social Issues...and Decision Making : An Empirical Platform 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e...PERSON a. REPORT unclassified b. ABSTRACT unclassified c. THIS PAGE unclassified Trust and Decision Making : An Empirical Platform Dr. Joseph B

  16. Medical Decision-Making and Minors: Issues of Consent and Assent.

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    Kuther, Tara L.

    2003-01-01

    After a brief discussion of legal perspectives on informed consent, the present review examines the developmental literature on children and adolescents' capacities to make medical decisions that are informed, voluntary, and rational. The purposes and benefits of assent are identified. Remaining questions of how to evaluate capacity and balance…

  17. Lesson Plans To Advance Discussion of Ethical Issues.

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    Swikle, Randy G.

    2002-01-01

    Presents lesson plans designed to enable high school students to recognize ethical issues involving the printed media and to give students practical experience in ethical decision-making using the newspaper as a learning tool. Includes 10 ethical issues and related case studies. (RS)

  18. End-of-life decision-making in India.

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    Freckelton, Ian

    2014-09-01

    The extraordinary circumstances and the tragic life of Aruna Shanbaug, together with the landmark Supreme Court of India decision in Shanbaug v Union of India (2011) 4 SCC 454, have provided a fillip and focus to debate within India about end-of-life decision-making. This extends to passive euthanasia, decision-making about withdrawal of nutrition, hydration and medical treatment from persons in a permanent vegetative or quasi-vegetative state, the role of the courts in such matters, the risks of corruption and misconduct, the criminal status of attempted suicide, and even the contentious issue of physician-assisted active euthanasia. The debates have been promoted further by important reports of the Law Commission of India. This editorial reviews the current state of the law and debate about such issues in India.

  19. Data-Based Decision-Making: Developing a Method for Capturing Teachers' Understanding of CBM Graphs

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    Espin, Christine A.; Wayman, Miya Miura; Deno, Stanley L.; McMaster, Kristen L.; de Rooij, Mark

    2017-01-01

    In this special issue, we explore the decision-making aspect of "data-based decision-making". The articles in the issue address a wide range of research questions, designs, methods, and analyses, but all focus on data-based decision-making for students with learning difficulties. In this first article, we introduce the topic of…

  20. Geospatial decision support systems for societal decision making

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Bernknopf, R.L.

    2005-01-01

    While science provides reliable information to describe and understand the earth and its natural processes, it can contribute more. There are many important societal issues in which scientific information can play a critical role. Science can add greatly to policy and management decisions to minimize loss of life and property from natural and man-made disasters, to manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources, and in general, to enhance and protect our quality of life. However, the link between science and decision-making is often complicated and imperfect. Technical language and methods surround scientific research and the dissemination of its results. Scientific investigations often are conducted under different conditions, with different spatial boundaries, and in different timeframes than those needed to support specific policy and societal decisions. Uncertainty is not uniformly reported in scientific investigations. If society does not know that data exist, what the data mean, where to use the data, or how to include uncertainty when a decision has to be made, then science gets left out -or misused- in a decision making process. This paper is about using Geospatial Decision Support Systems (GDSS) for quantitative policy analysis. Integrated natural -social science methods and tools in a Geographic Information System that respond to decision-making needs can be used to close the gap between science and society. The GDSS has been developed so that nonscientists can pose "what if" scenarios to evaluate hypothetical outcomes of policy and management choices. In this approach decision makers can evaluate the financial and geographic distribution of potential policy options and their societal implications. Actions, based on scientific information, can be taken to mitigate hazards, protect our air and water quality, preserve the planet's biodiversity, promote balanced land use planning, and judiciously exploit natural resources. Applications using the

  1. 20 CFR 410.646 - Consolidated issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ...-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Determinations of Disability, Other Determinations, Administrative Review... evidence is relevant and material to the matters in issue. A single decision may be made upon all such...

  2. 20 CFR 410.646 - Consolidated issues.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...-BLACK LUNG BENEFITS (1969- ) Determinations of Disability, Other Determinations, Administrative Review... evidence is relevant and material to the matters in issue. A single decision may be made upon all such...

  3. Decision Making for Educational Leaders: Underexamined Dimensions and Issues. SUNY Series, Educational Leadership

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Bob L., Jr.; Kruse, Sharon D.

    2010-01-01

    Why another book on decision making? In this increasingly complex world, there are many tensions inherent in the daily practice of educational leaders. This book illuminates these tensions, and acknowledges the reality that there are already multiple approaches to decision making in any educational context. The authors offer a guide to integrate…

  4. [Theme Issue: Communications Satellites.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Howkins, John, Ed.

    1976-01-01

    One section of this journal is devoted to issues involving broadcast satellites. Separate articles discuss the need for international planning of satellite broadcasting, decisions made at the 1971 World Administrative Radio Conference for Space Telecommunications, potential problems in satellite broadcasting, a series of proposals drawn up by the…

  5. 45 CFR 150.417 - Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.417...) May consider evidence of record relating to any factor that CMS did not apply in making its initial...

  6. 45 CFR 150.417 - Issues to be heard and decided by ALJ.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... CARE ACCESS CMS ENFORCEMENT IN GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKETS Administrative Hearings § 150.417...) May consider evidence of record relating to any factor that CMS did not apply in making its initial...

  7. [The role of information in public health decision-making].

    PubMed

    Cecchi, Catherine

    2008-01-01

    Public health, prevention, health education and health promotion are inseparable from the concepts of information and communication. Information should respond as much as possible to the needs of professionals, decision-makers, and consumers who are more and more concerned and conscious of its importance in light of "information overload", various dissemination channels and the multiplicity of its sources. There are numerous issues at stake ranging from comprehension, to the validation of health information, health education, health promotion, prevention, decision-making, as well as issues related to knowledge and power. Irrespective of the type of choice to be made, the need for information, knowledge, and know-how is inseparable from that of other tools or regulatory measures required for decision-making. Information is the same as competence, epidemiological and population data, health data, scientific opinion, and expert conferences--all are needed to assist in decision-making. Based on the principle of precaution, information must increasingly take into account the rejection of a society which often reasons on the basis of a presumption of zero-risk, in an idealistic manner, and which also excludes the possibility of new risks. The consumer positions himself as the regulator of decisions, specifically those with regard to the notion of acceptable level of risk. All of the actors involved in the health system are or become at one moment or another public health decision-makers. Their decision might be based either on an analytical approach, or on an intuitive approach. Although the act of decision-making is the least visible part of public health policy, it is certainly the driving force. This process should integrate the perspective of all of the relevant players, including consumers, who are currently situated more and more frequently at the heart of the health system. Public health decision-making is conducted as a function of political, strategic and

  8. 41 CFR 105-56.009 - Written decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Written decision. 105-56... General Services Administration Employees § 105-56.009 Written decision. (a) Within 60 days of the employee's filing of a petition for a pre-offset hearing, the hearing official will issue a written...

  9. Beyond expected utility: rethinking behavioral decision research.

    PubMed

    Frisch, D; Clemen, R T

    1994-07-01

    Much research in psychology has evaluated the quality of people's decisions by comparisons with subjective expected utility (SEU) theory. This article suggests that typical arguments made for the status of utility theory as normative do not justify its use by psychologists as a standard by which to evaluate decision quality. It is argued that to evaluate decision quality, researchers need to identify those decision processes that tend to lead to desirable outcomes. It is contended that a good decision-making process must be concerned with how (and whether) decision makers evaluate potential consequences of decisions, the extent to which they accurately identify all relevant consequences, and the way in which they make final choices. Research that bears on these issues is reviewed.

  10. A Case Study Approach to Marine and Aquatic Issues.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Snively, Gloria

    1993-01-01

    Suggests using case studies of resource management conflict involving marine and aquatic resource issues to increase student involvement in decision-making processes. Provides information for a potential case involving oyster farms and six steps to help students explore problems and make decisions. (MDH)

  11. The Decision Module Working Paper

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1973-12-01

    and goal change has received very little attention In the litera- ture on the analysis of choice situations. It has generally been the case that the...Decision Making: Approach and Prototype" (197:0, done In context of the Mesarovlc - Pestel World Model Projet’ The Issues dealing with «-he cho ce...Nelson, Winder, and Schuette (1973) on evolutionary economic growth models. The discussion of the two components of the decision module that follows

  12. Teaching Rational Decision-Making.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Woolever, Roberts

    1978-01-01

    Presented is an outline of a college course, "Education in American Society," that focused on teaching students rational decision-making skills while examining current issues in American Education. The outline is followed by student comments, reactions, and evaluations of the course. (JMD)

  13. The role of behavioral economics and behavioral decision making in Americans' retirement savings decisions.

    PubMed

    Knoll, Melissa A Z

    2010-01-01

    Traditional economic theory posits that people make decisions by maximizing a utility function in which all of the relevant constraints and preferences are included and weighed appropriately. Behavioral economists and decision-making researchers, however, are interested in how people make decisions in the face of incomplete information, limited cognitive resources, and decision biases. Empirical findings in the areas of behavioral economics and judgment and decision making (JDM) demonstrate departures from the notion that man is economically rational, illustrating instead that people often act in ways that are economically suboptimal. This article outlines findings from the JDM and behavioral-economics literatures that highlight the many behavioral impediments to saving that individuals may encounter on their way to financial security. I discuss how behavioral and psychological issues, such as self-control, emotions, and choice architecture can help policymakers understand what factors, aside from purely economic ones, may affect individuals' savings behavior.

  14. 10 CFR 501.124 - Decision and order.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Decision and order. 501.124 Section 501.124 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (CONTINUED) ALTERNATE FUELS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND SANCTIONS Requests for Stay § 501.124 Decision and order. (a) OFE will issue an order granting or denying the petition for a stay...

  15. Child Custody: Legal Decisions and Family Outcomes.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Everett, Craig A., Ed.

    This collection addresses child custody decisions and the resultant outcomes for children and their families. The first section of the book examines aspects of the legal decision-making process as well as legislative guidelines affecting custody and post-divorce issues. The second section focuses on post-divorce family patterns for fathers,…

  16. How to Teach Controversial Constitutional Issues Facing Women.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Berry, Mary Frances

    1988-01-01

    Explains that teaching the historical context of women's legal issues allows future voters to make informed decisions. Suggests ways of including the Equal Rights Amendment, sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, and abortion in the high school curriculum. Recommends several anthologies of primary materials for teaching these issues. (LS)

  17. 40 CFR 155.56 - Interim registration review decision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 23 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Interim registration review decision... PROGRAMS REGISTRATION STANDARDS AND REGISTRATION REVIEW Registration Review Procedures § 155.56 Interim registration review decision. The Agency may issue, when it determines it to be appropriate, an interim...

  18. Ethical issues in prenatal diagnosis.

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    Johnson, S R; Elkins, T E

    1988-06-01

    Prenatal diagnosis raises complex ethical issues not only in terms of individual decision making, but also in the development of clinical services and the formulation of public policy regarding access and funding. The motivation behind prenatal diagnosis is generally to provide the family with information regarding the pregnancy so that the outcome can be improved or, in the case of severely affected pregnancies, a decision can be made about pregnancy termination. Although many of the ethical issues involved in prenatal diagnosis and treatment overlap those common to all types of diagnostic procedures, the former situation is complicated by controversy about the moral status of the fetus and the use of selective abortion as a form of treatment. While there is general agreement that pregnancy termination after the 2nd trimester can be justified if the fetus is afflicted with a condition that is incompatible with postnatal survival or characterized by the virtual absence of cognitive functioning, the disposition of a fetus afflicted with a non-life-threatening physical or mental disability (e.g., Down's syndrome) is more controversial. An additional concern is that women with positive screening test results may choose elective abortion rather than undergo a definitive work-up. The issue of maternal versus fetal rights is perhaps the single most controversial dilemma. Here, the basic ethical dilemma is the conflict between respecting maternal autonomy versus acting beneficently toward the fetus. As a general rule, the more invasive the medical technique and the less certain the benefit to the fetus (e.g., laparotomy), the more difficult it is to make a convincing argument for forced interventions involving the mother's body. Situations in which compelling arguments can be made for forced interventions against the will of the mother are those where an otherwise healthy infant will die without immediate intervention or failure to perform a procedure will result in the

  19. Patients' Values in Clinical Decision-Making.

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    Faggion, Clovis Mariano; Pachur, Thorsten; Giannakopoulos, Nikolaos Nikitas

    2017-09-01

    Shared decision-making involves the participation of patient and dental practitioner. Well-informed decision-making requires that both parties understand important concepts that may influence the decision. This fourth article in a series of 4 aims to discuss the importance of patients' values when a clinical decision is made. We report on how to incorporate important concepts for well-informed, shared decision-making. Here, we present patient values as an important issue, in addition to previously established topics such as the risk of bias of a study, cost-effectiveness of treatment approaches, and a comparison of therapeutic benefit with potential side effects. We provide 2 clinical examples and suggestions for a decision tree, based on the available evidence. The information reported in this article may improve the relationship between patient and dental practitioner, resulting in more well-informed clinical decisions. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  20. Issues in Coastal Zone Management.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Davis, Derrin

    1992-01-01

    Addresses the following issues relevant to coastal zone management: overcrowding, resource exploitation, pollution, agriculture, fisheries, industrial, and other uses. Describes conflicts and trade-offs in management typified by fragmented agency decision making. Discusses implications of the greenhouse effect, sustainable development, and the…