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Evaluating Perceived Benefits of Ecoregional Assessments

Conservation Biology, 2012
Abstract:  The outcomes of systematic conservation planning (process of assessing, implementing, and managing conservation areas) are rarely reported or measured formally. A lack of consistent or rigorous evaluation in conservation planning has fueled debate about the extent to which conservation assessment ...
Bottrill, Madeleine, Mills, Morena, Pressey, Robert L., Game, Edward T., Groves, Craig   +4 more
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Smart Clothing: Perceived Benefits vs. Perceived Fears

Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2011
Smart textile technologies integrate computer functionality into textiles. Since a few years, smart clothing has been coming up in the sport and health sector and is increasingly implemented in everyday objects within private spaces. Especially the use of textiles for medical reasons and their potential use within Ambient Assisted Living-Concepts (AAL)
Anne Kathrin Schaar, Martina Ziefle
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Effect of Perceived Benefits on Reluctance to Trade

Psychological Reports, 2007
People often tend to be reluctant to trade an owned object for an alternative object. This concept of reluctance to trade is generally called “endowment effect”. Loss aversion, which denotes that losses are weighted more heavily than gains, has been applied to interpret the endowment effect.
Hung-Ming, Lin, Danny T, Kao, Shih-Chieh, Chuang   +2 more
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Benefits of Appraisal as Perceived by General Practitioners

Education for Primary Care, 2011
Appraisal for general practitioners (GPs) has been in place since 2002. We conducted a review of current literature on what benefits GPs perceived appraisal to offer. GPs recognised that appraisal offers the chance to reflect on their personal development, and promotes educational activity.
Kudzai, Mugweni, Sharon, Kibble, Maurice, Conlon   +2 more
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Structuring the Hierarchy to Make Trade-Offs: Benefits, Costs, Perceived Benefits, and Perceived Costs

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(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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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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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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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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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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THE PERCEIVED VALUE OF FRINGE BENEFITS

Personnel Psychology, 1985
One hundred eighty‐two University of Arizona employees each participated in one of two field studies of the valuation of fringe benefits. Findings included: (a) a lack of employee knowledge regarding employer cost and market value of the studied benefit, and (b) significant undervaluation of the benefit by employees.
MARIE WILSON, GREGORY B. NORTHCRAFT, MARGARET A. NEALE   +2 more
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