A better understanding of when and why nudges (e.g., defaults, visibility or accessibility alterations) and other structural behavior-change measures work or fail can help avoid subsequent surprises such as unexpected political opposition. In this paper, we challenge the unilateral focus on structural interventions-which seemingly control people's behavioral decisions-as such a focus ignores th...

This paper is an analytical literature review on the dilemma of error-tolerance (ET) in IC manufacturing industry. The ET has a vast definition in research but, we mainly fuscous on the result acceptability of the the chips that generate erroneous outputs to increase the yield. The source of these errors is fabrication process (process variation or defects). The idea lies behind this question, ...

Each practical action in rural areas should be based on a comprehensive, new, and innovative theoretical paradigm. For nearly three decades, the global economic system has embraced entrepreneurship as “productive” strategy development many countries, including both underdeveloped developed countries. At present, we have large companies, which due to government interventions, are replaced with s...

In this paper, we developed a comprehensive health performance measure that formally links individual health attitudes with the likelihood of engaging in a wide variety of health-related behaviours from various domains such as sustenance, hygiene, and physical exercise. Within what Kaiser, Byrka, and Hartig (2010) call the Campbell paradigm, we equated general health attitude with what a person...

as claimed by many behavioral scientists, designing should be based on the knowledge of interaction between human and environment. environmental quality is also created in the context in which humans interact with their environment. to achieve such quality, designers should develop appropriate models for explaining this relationship, and this requires an understanding of human nature and the en...