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Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.Whole‐tire reclaimed rubber is upgraded with wood sawdust, a carpentry by‐product available at no cost, across loadings from 0 to 20 wt%. At 5 wt%, tensile strength, elongation, hardness, viscosity, and water absorption all stay within commercial specification, and real factory data show an annual production saving near $62,000 with no capital ...
Mohammed S. Matar +3 more
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A Deeper Look at Hyperbolic Discounting [PDF]
We conduct an experiment to investigate the degree to which deviations from exponential discounting can be accounted for by the hypothesis of hyperbolic discounting. Subjects are asked to choose between an earlier or later payoff in a series of 40 choice
Sheth, Arnav, Sopher, Barry
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, 2016 The relationship between impulse control disorder (ICD) behaviors and problematic Internet use (PIU) has been established in the literature. Our aim was to further investigate whether the ICDs of individuals suffering from PIU primarily involve an ...
Sun, Shiyue +6 more
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Consumer Psychology Review, EarlyView.Abstract Past research suggests that people exhibit robust waste aversion. However, many consumers routinely feel that they waste not only goods but also time, money, energy, and emotion and would be hard‐pressed to imagine their lives otherwise. Why does consumer waste persist? In this paper, we first propose a definition for consumer waste.
Marissa A. Sharif, Cait Lamberton
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METHODS FOR IMPROVING DELAY DISCOUNTING [PDF]
, 2021 Spending addictions pose a serious threat to the younger population as they have no prior experience making long term financial decisions. The goal of this research paper is to identify therapies to help reduce delay discounting accompanied by poor ...
Strickland, Tiaja
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Coverage Generosity of Novel Antirheumatic Drugs in Medicare Advantage and Stand‐Alone Part D Plans
Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.Objective We examine coverage of self‐administered disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in Medicare Part D. Methods Using 2022–2026 Part D formulary data, we assessed coverage of the following DMARD classes that treat relapsed rheumatoid arthritis (RA): tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, T cell costimulatory modulator, interleukin‐6 (IL ...
Youngmin Kwon +2 more
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Smokers, Smoking Deprivation, and Time Discounting [PDF]
This paper investigates whether smokers exhibit greater time discounting than non-smokers, and how short-term nicotine deprivation affects time discounting.
Yoshio Kamijo +6 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Context‐centric proactive information delivery (PID) is a relatively underexplored domain within recommender systems (RS) aimed at enhancing Knowledge Workers' productivity by proactively providing relevant information during digital tasks.
Mahta Bakhshizadeh +4 more
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Time Discounting: The Delay Effect and Procrastinating Behavior [PDF]
The delay effect, that people discount the near future more than the distant future, has not been verified rigorously. An experiment conducted by us in China confirms that, by separating the delay from the interval, the delay effect exists only within a ...
Shunichiro Sasaki +4 more
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Incremental refinement of relevance rankings: Balancing relevance depth and scope
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Delivering both relevant and topically diverse results is a key challenge in information retrieval (IR). This study introduces a hybrid method that incrementally refines rankings by combining probabilistic topic modeling (latent dirichlet allocation [LDA]) with citation‐based pennant retrieval grounded in Relevance Theory (RT), optimizing for ...
Müge Akbulut, Yaşar Tonta
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