Abstract This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a lifetime income stream or annuity, drawing on randomized experiment with about 4,000 adults in U.S. nationally representative sample. We find increasing the complexity of annuity choice reduces respondents' measured by difference between sell and buy values they assign annuity. When we limit narrow bra...

background: the importance of increasing adolescence girl’s level of physical activity is recognized as a priority for having a healthy lifestyle. however, adolescent girls especially iranian, are at high risk for physical inactivity. social cognitive theory (sct) is a successful theory to explain physical activity behavior. the aim of this study was to determine the predictors of physical acti...

To assess the relationship between predation risk perceived by elk (Cervus elaphus L., 1758) as evidenced by vigilance, we conducted focal animal observations in elk winter range.We stratified our observations in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, andWaterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada, in valleys with three wolf (Canis lupus L., 1758) population levels (Saint Mary Valley: no wolf; ...

Total quality management (TQM) is an integrated management approach that aim to continuously improve the performance of products, processes, and services to achieve and surpass customer’s expectations. This paper investigates Critical success factor for TQM Implementation in Indian airline industry in order to improve the performance and identify the main impediments of implementing TQM success...

agents to children with learning impediments or disabilities is not a new method of treatment. Publications of related investigations date back more than 30 years. An accurate assessment of the effectiveness of the chemotherapeutic approach poses enumerable difficulties. These stem from factors such as ( 1 ) the lack of uniform terminology, ( 2) marked variability in methodology for evaluation,...

There is some evidence from studies in the USA and Canada that server intervention programs are effective in reducing alcohol consumption on licensed premises which, it is claimed, will lead to a reduction in the incidence of drink driving and other alcohol-related problems. Unfortunately, due to the relative newness of server intervention programs, there is little or no evidence to support suc...

BACKGROUND To date, research has shown an increasing use of the term "ecohealth" in literature, but few researchers have explicitly described how it has been used. We investigated a project on health and environmental sanitation (the conceptual framework of which included the pillars of ecohealth) to identify the impediments and enablers of ecohealth and investigate how it can move from concept...

The benefits of telemedicine systems within the U.S. military have been widely recognized. However, a number of telemedicine systems have encountered resistance and have failed to be adopted and widely used. The purpose of the present project was to use a human factors analysis to characterize the facilitators and impediments to the use of a teledermatology system. More specifically, the goal w...