William H. Friedman, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, last month presented a paper titled “Payoff Matrices: New Techniques, New Views,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Business. The paper systematically categorizes certain novel techniques of normative decision making according to the different emphases each places on types of payoffs, anticipated gains/losses, enhanced expected value theory, time to realize gains, subjective degree of optimism/pessimism and using probabilities as criteria instead of payoffs. Further, it contributes new elements to these techniques, such as delight that you did not receive the minimum payoff (analogous to regret that you did not receive the maximum payoff) and a proposed “moderate expectations” method. Finally, matrices involving possibility theory and fuzzy payoffs are proposed as decision tools.
Julie Jefferson and Stacey Stephens from UCA’s Department of Physical Therapy recently presented a poster titled “Clinical instructor’s preference of student evaluation tools during clinical affiliations” at the 2007 Combined Section Meeting of American Physical Therapy Association in Boston, Mass. At the same meeting, Margaret McGee and Nancy Reese, also from UCA’s Department of Physical Therapy, presented a poster titled “Reliability of gait and balance measures in children with spastic cerebral palsy.”