1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136401203321

Autore

Kerstin Preuschoff

Titolo

Decision making under uncertainty / / topic editors Kerstin Preuschoff, Peter N. C. Mohr and Ming Hsu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2015

France : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2015

ISBN

9782889194667 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Disciplina

153.8/3

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Biological psychiatry

Neuropsychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Most decisions in life are based on incomplete information and have uncertain consequences. To successfully cope with real-life situations, the nervous system has to estimate, represent and eventually resolve uncertainty at various levels. A common tradeoff in such decisions involves those between the magnitude of the expected rewards and the uncertainty of obtaining the rewards. For instance, a decision maker may choose to forgo the high expected rewards of investing in the stock market and settle instead for the lower expected reward and much less uncertainty of a savings account. Little is known about how different forms of uncertainty, such as risk or ambiguity, are processed and learned about and how they are integrated with expected rewards and individual preferences throughout the decision making process. With this Research Topic we aim to provide a deeper and more detailed understanding of the processes behind decision making under uncertainty.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910163199203321

Autore

Gosselin SGM Robert R

Titolo

"Non-Standard" Military Police Mission

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Tannenberg Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781782893233

1782893237

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (10 pages)

Collana

Eyewitness To Modern War ; ; v.2

Disciplina

355.28097300000002

Soggetti

Military police

Armed Forces

United States. Army

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Abstract -- Mobilization -- Mobilization Station -- Location Assignment -- Theatre Operations -- Rear Detachment Operations -- Mission Accomplished -- Reintegration -- Comparison -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.

Sommario/riassunto

My field artillery unit was mobilized to perform a non-standard military police mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The unit was part of the largest National Guard mobilization from our state since the Vietnam era. The challenges of deploying a field artillery unit as an ad hoc MP company were many. The challenges were overcome through the strength of our NCO Corps. As I write this paper, I am preparing for a deployment, a non-standard mission with my current unit. As I compare the two mobilizations, it is apparent that the process for mobilizing, training and preparing our soldiers has improved since the first rotation, but issues concerning the selection of units for non-standard mission still exist five years later.