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Impact of Unmet Social Needs, Scarcity, and Future Discounting on Adherence to Treatment in Children With Asthma: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study

open access: yesJMIR Research Protocols, 2023
BackgroundAsthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of childhood and disproportionately affects children with lower socioeconomic status.
Olivier Drouin   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk-taking unmasked: Using risky choice and temporal discounting to explain COVID-19 preventative behaviors.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
To reduce the spread of COVID-19 transmission, government agencies in the United States (US) recommended precautionary guidelines, including wearing masks and social distancing to encourage the prevention of the disease.
Kaileigh A Byrne   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Delayed Gratification Among American Children

open access: yesCaspian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2020
Background: A wide array of Socioeconomic Status (SES) indicators show differential effects for the members of diverse social groups. Researchers know a little about the ethnic variation and the effects of family income on delay discounting which is the ...
Shervin Assari
doaj   +1 more source

To produce or not to produce? Contrasting the effect of substance abuse in social decision-making situations

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Substance use disorders (SUD) have been related to high criminal justice costs, expensive healthcare, social impairment, and decision-making deficits. In non-social decision-making tasks, people with SUD tend to take more risks and choose small immediate
Laurent Avila-Chauvet   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Discounting in Energy Policy Investments

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
For informing future energy policy decisions, it is essential to choose the correct social discount rate (SDR) for ex-ante economic evaluations. Generally, costs and benefits—both economic and environmental—are weighted through a single constant discount
Gabriella Maselli, Antonio Nesticò
doaj   +1 more source

The social contagion of temporal discounting in small social networks

open access: yesCognitive Research, 2021
Decisions often require a tradeoff between immediate and long-term gratification. How individuals resolve such tradeoffs reflects constructs such as temporal discounting, the degree that individuals devalue delayed rewards. Recent research has started to
Michael T. Bixter, Christian C. Luhmann
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment Adherence among People with Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Lagos Nigeria: The Effects of Stigma, Resilience, Social Support, and Temporal Discounting

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mycobacteriology
Background: This study assessed the effects of social support, resilience, temporal discounting, and stigma on medication adherence among people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (PwDR-TB) in Lagos, Nigeria.
Olusola Adedeji Adejumo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rational social distancing in epidemics with uncertain vaccination timing.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
During epidemics people may reduce their social and economic activity to lower their risk of infection. Such social distancing strategies will depend on information about the course of the epidemic but also on when they expect the epidemic to end, for ...
Simon K Schnyder   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robotic Control for Human–Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Digital Human Model and Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent Maintenance Review for Robots: Multimodal Information, Deep Diagnosis and Embodied Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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