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Managing service shutdowns: Cash refunds or vouchers?
Service shutdowns—extended disruptions of operations—caused by exogenous events are on the rise. Such shutdowns pose major challenges for service providers, customers, and regulators. Providers prefer vouchers as a means of service recovery to limit bankruptcy risk, whereas customers demand cash refunds or vouchers that include a generous bonus ...
Chen R. R. +3 more
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Contingency management for cocaine treatment: Cash vs. vouchers [PDF]
The efficacy of contingency management (CM) for treating drug abuse is well supported. The most widely used form of CM is voucher-based reinforcement therapy (VBRT), where clients receive an escalating schedule of vouchers that can be redeemed for goods and services for meeting treatment goals.
Festinger, David +3 more
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Voucher-Based Contingency Management is Efficacious but Underutilized in Treating Addictions [PDF]
The United States lags far behind other industrialized countries on major markers of population health. Population health experts identify unhealthy behavior patterns (e.g., cigarette smoking, other substance use disorders, physical inactivity and poor food choices, nonadherence with recommended medical regimens) as the largest contributor to the ...
Stephen T, Higgins +2 more
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Decision-making tendencies and voucher spending independently support abstinence within contingency management for methamphetamine use disorder. [PDF]
Decision-making tendencies and spending within cash voucher-based interventions have individually been shown to be related to future abstinence among participants with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD), but less is known of their independent contributions.
Marilyn T. Lake +5 more
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Background Vouchers are increasingly used as a demand-side subsidy to reduce financial hardship and improve quality of services. Elderly Healthcare Voucher Scheme has been introduced by the Hong Kong Government since 2009 to provide subsidy to elderly ...
Carrie H. K. Yam +4 more
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Background Few studies in Africa have explored in detail the ability of output-based aid (OBA) voucher programs to increase access to gender-based violence recovery (GBVR) services.
Njuki Rebecca +8 more
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Bina Nusantara University as one of the information technology-based educational institutions in Indonesia have used the Internet in learning activities.
Rony Baskoro Lukito +3 more
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Towards a DNA barcode library for Madagascar's threatened ichthyofauna.
In order to improve the molecular resources available for conservation management of Madagascar's threatened ichthyofauna, we elaborated a curated database of 2860 mitochondrial sequences of the mitochondrial COI, 16S and ND2 genes of Malagasy fishes, of
Miguel Vences +3 more
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Because of the global economic turmoil, nowadays a lot of companies are adopting a “deal of the day” business model, some of them with great success.
Miguel Ángel Gómez-Nieto +4 more
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The introduction of Next Generation Sequencing into the disciplines of plant systematics, ecology, and metagenomics, among others, has resulted in a phenomenal increase in the collecting and storing of tissue samples and their respective vouchers.
Vicki Funk +8 more
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