Delay discounting refers to decision makers’ tendency to treat immediately consumable goods as more valuable than those only available after some delay. Previous work has focused on a seemingly irrational feature of these preferences: the systematic tendency to exhibit more patience when consequences are far in the future but less patience about those same, identical rewards as time passes. One...

Load balancing is a well-studied problem, with balls-in-bins being the primary framework. The greedy algorithm Greedy[d] of Azar et al. places each ball by probing d > 1 random bins and placing the ball in the least loaded of them. It ensures a maximum load that is exponentially better than the strategy of placing each ball uniformly at random. Vöcking showed that a slightly asymmetric variant,...

When rationality is bounded, a variety of factors may influence how far a choice is from optimal. We examine the willingness to search among alternatives. We find fixed individual differences in this temperament measure. People may be usefully typed according to how they obtain improved choices. More patient subjects obtain improvement by effectively using decision resources, performing better ...

objectives: providing care to children who have disability is often a stressful experience, yet spiritual beliefs may help mothers to be patient, tolerant and  hard in coping with child-rearing difficulties. this study examined the relationship between the spiritual attitudes of mothers of handicapped children to child-rearing and psychological hardiness. methods: in a descriptive correlational...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has set unprecedented demand on the medical system globally. Palestine was one of Arab countries affected Objectives present study aims to identify relationship between patience and Stress Tolerance in Bethlehem Governorate during Corona pandemic, as well impact several demographic variables it. Methods Descriptive method were used. Appropriate statistical ana...

This study aims to analyze individual factors and entrepreneurial behavior of oyster mushroom farmers in Payakumbuh. The characteristics were analyzed descriptively from 60 selected using a non-probability sampling technique, namely purposive sampling. results showed that consisting experience, self-confidence, motivation try farming, skills, perceptions effort, desire classified into the high ...

Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages In this paper we study the link between women’s responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of ch...

Consider the Geo/Geo/1 queue with impatient customers and let X reflect the patience distribution. We show that systems with a smaller patience distribution X in the convex-ordering sense give rise to fewer abandonments (due to impatience), irrespective of whether customers become patient when entering the service facility. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.