CONTEXT Although evidence-based national guidelines for tobacco-dependence treatment have been available since 1996, translating these guidelines into clinical practice is challenging. PRACTICE PATTERN EXAMINED Policies regarding tobacco-dependence treatment (e.g., written guidelines and coverage of pharmacotherapy) and implementation strategies of 11 U.S. managed care organizations known to ...

People consume and rate products in online shopping websites. The historical purchases of customers reflect their personal consumption habits and indicate their future shopping behaviors. Traditional preference-based recommender systems try to provide recommendations by analyzing users’ feedback such as ratings and clicks. But unfortunately, most of the existing recommendation algorithms ignore...

We study multidimensional mechanism design in a common scenario where players have private information about their willingness to pay and their ability to pay. We provide a complete characterization of dominant-strategy incentive-compatible direct mechanisms where overreporting the budget is not possible. In several settings, reporting larger budgets can be made suboptimal with a small randomiz...

Vol. XLIX (February 2012), 1 –14 *Ashwin Aravindakshan is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: aaravind@ ucdavis.edu), and Prasad A. Naik is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. Kay Peters is a postdoctoral student, Center for Interactive Marketing and Media Management, Institute for Marketing, University of Mu...

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Ecosystem responses to climate changes will affect the exchange of carbon (C) with the atmosphere, thus providing feedback for future climate response. We have developed a C budget model of Canadian forests and forest sector activities and used sensitivity analysis runs with changes in productivity, decomposition, and disturbance regimes to assess the sensitivity of the Canadian forest sector C...

K e y w o r d s : Health services, personel, measurement, scheduling 1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n A few years ago a system of budgetting was introduced in Dutch hospitals. The Dutch National Hospital Board and the National Consultants Union together published a declaration of intent regarding the budgetting situation. Some important points are: cost budgets and activities have to be completely m...

This paper presents a cross-national study of industrial marketing communications spending. The study compares the results of data collected from 55 European companies on 80 products with a sample of 131 products from 29 companies representing the ADVISOR 2 study sample in the U.S. Several key questions are addressed. First, we consider if the original ADVISOR results are specific to U.S. compa...