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The Choice of Fish Species: An Experiment Measuring the Impact of Risk and Benefit Information
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2008 An experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on consumer's choice. Fish have positive and negative health attributes, and we focus on fish species of diverging risk-benefit ratios. Successive messages revealing risks
Stephan Marette +3 more
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THE EFFECT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICIES FOR PROCESSING TOMATOES ON THE DEMAND FOR PESTICIDES [PDF]
In California, acceptance sampling is used to monitor the quality of processing tomatoes delivered by growers to processors. A proposal to change the current quality assurance policy was recently put forth to reduce the growersÂ’' incentive to use ...
Starbird, S. Andrew
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this study was to determine the differences in demographic, serologic, and clinical characteristics between male and female patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in an Australian cohort. Methods This was a retrospective observational study using data from the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study.
Emily Lin +14 more
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Acceptance sampling plans based on truncated life tests for extended exponential distribution
Kuwait Journal of Science, 2018 In this paper, acceptance sampling plans are suggested for the extended exponential distribution mean, when the life time test is truncated at a pre-fixed time.
Amer Al-Omari, Said Al-Hadhrami
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Effect of Motivation Type and Reward Uncertainty on Consumers’ Marketing Promotion Participation
Asia Marketing Journal, 2017 The current research proposes to fill a research gap by testing how reward uncertainty, different types of motivation, as well as individual risk-taking attitude affect consumers’ promotion participation.
Yan-Jie Zhang +2 more
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Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Conceptions of \"Health Promotion” [PDF]
Although \"health promotion\" programs account for only a small proportion of health spending in OECD countries (OECD, 2000), their components (anti-smoking, pro-exercise and vaccination campaigns, for example) are often highly visible instruments of ...
Luke Connelly
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Independent Living and Attendant care in Sweden: A Consumer Perspective [PDF]
, 1986 [Excerpt] One of the main aims of the growing Independent Living Movement , the international civil rights movement of people with disabilities, has been to gain control over the services that are necessary for participating in society on equal terms. Of
Ratzka, Adolf
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The concern that nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may precipitate flares of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has limited their use in managing musculoskeletal symptoms in those with IBD, but safety data are mixed. Methods This retrospective cohort study included patients with IBD aged at least 18 years from Optum's deidentified ...
Adam S. Mayer +4 more
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Multilevel Fixed and Sequential Acceptance Sampling: The R Package MFSAS [PDF]
Multilevel acceptance sampling for attributes is used to decide whether a lot from an incoming shipment or outgoing production is accepted or rejected when the product has multiple levels of product quality or multiple types of (mutually exclusive ...
Aaron Childs, Yalin Chen
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A dynamic monopoly with risk-averse consumers
Information Economics and Policy, 2018 Abstract I study the dynamically optimal pricing strategy of a forward-looking monopolist that introduces a novel product when facing a normalized population of risk-averse, non-strategic consumers. The product can be seen as an experience good in the first period.
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