Governments and other large organisations should put more resources into ways of dealing with the unknown, according to experts pioneering a new approach to understanding and managing uncertainty.
... the journal Personal Relationships evaluated associations between intimacy and relational uncertainty and found that fluctuations in perceptions of relationships are meaningful aspects of non-marital ...
Some individuals would rather receive clear negative information than deal with ambiguity or uncertainty, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. In a new study published in ...
Some individuals would rather receive clear negative information than deal with ambiguity or uncertainty, according to new research out of the University of Toronto.
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... ' Barbara Taylor, Ph.D., NOAA Fisheries Service, will discuss the need to explicitly consider uncertainty in taxonomy in conservation decisions. Species concepts continue to be a contentious, but ...
The hippocampus, a key brain region for memory and learning, codes the degree of uncertainty of potential reward situations. New work sheds light on the way the brain extracts and processes ...
The New Brunswick Medical Society says uncertainty over fee payments for doctors could make it hard for the province to recruit more of physicians.
... to measure a physical quantity than to correctly assess the magnitude of the uncertainty on the measurement: the uncertainty is everything!
A trivial demonstration of the above fact is the following ...
... and activities," write the authors. "Our research suggests that by incorporating positive uncertainty into the design of marketing activities (for example, in promotional events), marketers may not ...
... PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has spent a sleepless night anguishing over a possible job loss has experienced the central finding of a new brain scan study: Uncertainty makes a bad event feel even worse.
NASA's new Orion moonship has passed a major review amid uncertainty over the Ares I rocket that will launch it.
... ) -- Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A team of researchers using computing facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has ...
Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister is blaming the federal government for uncertainty over the province's swine flu vaccination supply.
New findings from NASA's CloudSat and other Earth observing satellites offer
important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice,
global rainfall patterns and the effects of ...
... reducing the effects of “virtual photons” it emits. These simplifications allow theoretical uncertainties to be as small as tens of parts in a quintillion (one followed by 18 zeros).
NIST researchers ...
