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Perceived Risk, Dread, and Benefits

Risk Analysis, 1993
This paper uses regression techniques to take a second look at a classic risk‐perception data set originally collected by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischhoff. As discussed in earlier studies, the attributes expected mortality, effects on future generations, immediacy, and catastrophic potential all significantly affect risk ratings ...
Robin Gregory, Robert Mendelsohn
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Accounting honours programmes: perceived benefits

Accounting Education, 1996
The present study extended the findings of a previous study that honours programmes provide substantial benefits to faculty academics, students and professional accounting recruiters. Seventy-seven accounting recruiters, 78 faculty academics and 101 honours students were surveyed on the perceived benefits of accounting honours programmes.
Claudio A. Romano, Kosmas X. Smyrnios
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Perceived Benefits of Professional Certification

The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1976
This study compares the perceptions of holders of the CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), and PE (Professional Engineer) with those of the CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter). The responses of individuals holding these designations were classified according to those criteria which the recipients of each designation ...
Herbert J. Davis, Harvey W. Rubin
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Highway noise barrier perceived benefit

Journal of Sound and Vibration, 1980
Abstract A laboratory experiment was performed in which 82 subjects judged the benefit of a noise barrier by listening to tape recordings of before-barrier and after-barrier traffic noise. These perceived benefit judgments were related by regression analysis to the barrier attenuation, the before-barrier traffic sound level, and a music background ...
D.N. May, M.M. Osman
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Perceived benefits and church participation

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between perceived benefits and church participation among regular and irregular church goers (ICG). Design/methodology/approach – The research incorporates a descriptive research design.
Riza Casidy, Yelena Tsarenko
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Perceived Hearing Aid Benefit in Relation to Perceived Needs

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 1999
AbstractA new scale, the Hearing Aid Needs Assessment (HANA), was developed in order to examine the relationship between perceived communication needs/expectations with the actual benefit eventually achieved with newly fitted hearing aids. A serial sample of 82 patients completed the HANA prior to hearing aid consultation.
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Perceived Benefits of Intergenerational Tutoring

Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2000
Abstract This program evaluation of a national non-profit organization focuses on the benefits of an intergenerational tutoring program for participants over the age of 55.
Susan Kinnevy, Nancy Morrow-Howell
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Structuring the Hierarchy to Make Trade-Offs: Benefits, Costs, Perceived Benefits, and Perceived Costs

2021
(a) They had no way to measure the importance and value of intangible factors which can dominate the process; (b) They had no overall unifying structure to organize and prioritize issues and concessions; (c) They had no mechanism to trade off concessions by measuring their worth; (d) They had no way to capture each party’s perception of the other side ...
Thomas L. Saaty, H. J. Zoffer, Luis G. Vargas, Amos Guiora   +3 more
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Measuring Perceived Benefits and Perceived Barriers for Physical Activity

American Journal of Health Behavior, 2005
To evaluate the psychometric properties and relationship to physical activity levels of the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale (EBBS) among college students.A total of 398 college students completed the EBBS and a measure of self-efficacy, the Physical Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale.
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Student-perceived benefit from otolaryngology theatre attendance

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 2005
The value of theatre attendance by undergraduates is uncertain. This study aimed to evaluate the perceived benefits of attending operating theatre sessions during undergraduate otolaryngology attachments. The study comprised a questionnaire survey carried out in a university medical school.
M S W, Lee, M-L, Montague, S S M, Hussain   +2 more
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