Knowledge of circumstances under which past service provisions have occurred enables clients to make more informed selection decisions regarding their future interaction partners. Service providers, however, may often be reluctant to release such circumstances due to the cost and effort required, or to protect their interests. In response, we introduce a reputation-based incentivisation framewo...

Knowledge of circumstances under which past service provisions have occurred enables clients to make more informed selection decisions regarding their future interaction partners. Service providers, however, may often be reluctant to release such circumstances due to the cost and effort required, or to protect their interests. In response, we introduce a reputation-based incentivisation framewo...

The present research investigated the mechanisms guiding habitual behavior, specifically, the stimulus cues that trigger habit performance. When usual contexts for performance change, habits cannot be cued by recurring stimuli, and performance should be disrupted. Thus, the exercising, newspaper reading, and TV watching habits of students transferring to a new university were found to survive t...

In the past half-century, solid-organ transplantation has become standard treatment for a variety of diseases in children and adults. The major limitation for all transplantation is the availability of donors, and the gap between demand and supply continues to grow despite the increase in living donors. Although rare, children do serve as living donors, and these donations raise serious ethical...

A questionnaire, the revised Ways of Coping Checklist, was sent to all professional (entry-level) graduate students in the United States in one academic year during their second fieldwork level II experience to determine what coping strategies they used during their fieldwork experience. Information was also gathered regarding their perceptions of this clinical experience. Responses from 101 st...

An important ethical issue regarding biological samples stored in biobanks is unforeseen future sample use, when no or limited subject consent is obtained. Biobanks of biological samples have significant future research potential, but may cause conflicts of interest regarding the consent obtained. Indeed, ethics, deontology, and jurisprudence generally advise that consent must be specific and c...

structural  problems  arc  the  main  trade-barriers  which  bring  about  inefficiencies in  internal trade  in  iran. the  structure of the institutions in the  successful countries are studied (descriptive, explanatory and multiple case studies) which shows success depends  on designs  aimed  at efficiency.  flexibility and using small  or  medium  edi technology. regarding the circumstances...