Cancer incidence is associated with the "ageing process." It is frequently stated that cancer is a disease of old age. This idea is based primarily upon the fact that both skin carcinoma and carcinoma of the breast increase in frequency with advancing age. In this case the relative frequency remains about the same. It has been maintained that the great increase in cancer mortality at the presen...

Understanding individual acceptance and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the most mature streams of information systems research. In Information Technology and Information System research, numerous theories are used to understand users’ adoption of new technologies. Various models were developed including the Innovation Diffusion Theory, Theory of Reasoned Action,...

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between Arkansas agriculture teachers’ perceptions of the effects of offering science credit for agriculture and their support for offering science credit for agriculture. Vroom’s (1964) expectancy theory of human motivation formed the theoretical framework for the study. The results indicated that: (a) Arkansas agriculture teachers strongl...

Research dealing with various aspects of* the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1987) is reviewed, and some unresolved issues are discussed. In broad terms, the theory is found to be well supported by empirical evidence. Intentions to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral con...

Much has been written about the phenomenon of ever-increasing executive pay in listed companies. This paper examines some of the underlying reasons for this continued increase in executive directors’ remuneration. It reports the results of 40 interviews with protagonists in the remuneration debate in FTSE 350 companies, exploring the types of change made and the reasons given for these changes....

The advancement of mobile technology and the increasing importance of health promote the boom in mobile health services (MHS) around the world. Although there have been several studies investigating the health technology acceptance behavior from a variety of theoretical perspectives, they have not provided a unified understanding. To fill this research gap, this paper: (1) reviews the health te...

This paper challenges the common assumption that the mechanisms underlying short-term placebo paradigms (where there is no motivation for health improvement) and long-term placebo paradigms (where patients value improvement in their health) are the same. Three types of motivational theory are reviewed: (i) classical placebo motivation theory that the placebo response results from the desire for...

Keywords: System use Usage measures System use taxonomy Facebook Social networking sites (SNSs) UTAUT a b s t r a c t This research examines the relationship between the predictors of use and the different conceptualiza-tions of system use in a hedonic volitional setting (Facebook). Using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, an investigation into the three aspec...

Three experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that expectancy for an unconditioned stimulus (US) serves as an intervening variable in the well-documented empirical relationship between the awareness of stimulus contingencies and the occurrence of conditioned reactions (CR) in human classical conditioning. Experiment 1 showed that, when subjects are instructed to respond by keypressing ...