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Decision-Making Process in Swiss Politics

Explores the decision-making process in Swiss politics, emphasizing slow and incremental changes and the central role of interest groups.

Social Influence and Choice

Explores social influence, democracy, individual autonomy, equality, and decision-making models.

Surprise, Curiosity and Reward: An Evolutionary Perspective

Explores the evolutionary perspective on surprise, curiosity, and reward, focusing on the role of primary and secondary reward signals.

Integrated Risk Management in Civil Engineering

Explores integrated risk management in civil engineering, including government policies, decision-making processes, and a controversial case study on risk analysis.

Foundations of ICT: Decision Makers

Introduces the Foundations of ICT course, emphasizing the importance of understanding hidden costs.

Skyfall: Excerpt 1

Explores the tension of making quick decisions under pressure.

Assessing environmental goods and external costs: Road Safety

Explores the value of statistical life in road safety and environmental assessments.

Swiss Political Landscape: Parties and Decision-Making

Explores Swiss political parties, decision-making, interest groups, and 'Concordance Democracy', highlighting the paradox of direct democracy.

The Swiss Political System and its Major Political Institutions

Explores the Swiss political system, direct democracy, political parties, interest groups, and decision-making processes.

Self-Organization: Challenges and Applications

Explores the benefits, challenges, and applications of self-organization in various fields.

Asset Selling: Optimal Revenue Policy

Explores asset selling dynamics, optimal revenue policy, acceptance thresholds, and commodity price impact.

Flood Risk in Niamey

Explores flood risk in Niamey, Niger, and the importance of preventive measures.

Risk Governance Framework: Decision-making and Management

Discusses risk governance, decision-making, stakeholder engagement, and risk assessment.

Community Engagement: Team Composition

Discusses the importance of team composition in community engagement and empowering communities in decision-making.

Negotiation Techniques: Fundamentals and Strategies

Explores negotiation fundamentals, planning strategies, power dynamics, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Consensus: Timing Assumptions

Explores Consensus implementation using timing assumptions, Leader role, and minimal synchrony requirements in distributed systems.

Market Opportunity Navigator: Introduction

Introduces the Market Opportunity Navigator, a tool for identifying and evaluating market opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs.

Taxes Behaviors: Simple Signals, Complex Behaviors

Explores how organisms respond to environmental signals, showcasing how simple algorithms can lead to complex behaviors.

Decisions, actions, volition

Explores decision models in computational neuroscience, focusing on competitive dynamics, perceptual decision making, and the problem of free will.

Management Control: Performance Measurement Systems

On management control covers responsibility center performance, revenue centers, and performance measurement systems.