acceptance and commitment therapy (act) is a new development within behavioral therapy. its goal is to promote psychological flexibility. numerous studies show that suffering results when people attempt to avoid their inner experiences (experiential avoidance). this experiential avoidance often leads to rigid and inflexible behavior that also leads them to compromise their goals and what is imp...

Resource-constrained blockchain clients and the Internet of Things (IoT) devices pose limitations in terms processing storing entire ledger mining blocks. Such rely on a view provided by full nodes acting as gateways. However, gateway sometimes can provide distorted that makes lightweight vulnerable to eclipse attack. When under such an attack, client cannot differentiate between forked legitim...

iChirp-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) yield a larger wave V amplitude at low intensity levels than traditional broadband click stimuli, providing a reliable estimation of hearing sensitivity. However, advantages of iChirp stimulation at high intensity levels are unknown. We tested to see if high-intensity (i.e., 85 dBnHL) iChirp stimulation results in larger and more reliable ABR wa...

This paper takes a closer look at customer experience during product return and the customer’s ability to share information about it. The research process included development of tools such as questionnaires. Anonymous surveys were conducted by computer assisted web interview among individual customers from Poland on sample 327 respondents. Non-stratified random sampling was used, we considered...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the Romanian banking sector, which was forced to adapt digital technologies and provide accessible services for all kinds of custsomers. corporate social responsibility practices evolved during pandemic, from general causes more targeted initiatives, banks offering innovative solutions fight against health crisis. present paper provides a good ...

Millions of people participate in online peer-to-peer support sessions, yet there has been little prior research on systematic psychology-based evaluations fine-grained peer-counselor behavior relation to client satisfaction. This paper seeks bridge this gap by mapping chat-messages motivational interviewing (MI) techniques. We annotate 14,797 utterances from 734 chat conversations using 17 MI ...