Do doctors work for patients in today's business-mentality world: Looking through consumer choice theory lens?

Looking at Information Security through a Prospect Theory Lens

Traditional accounts of decision-making under uncertainty have taken the Von Neumann and Morgenstern approach of Expected Utility Theory that considers how decisions under uncertainty should be made. This prescriptive model states that, when faced with a choice, a rational decision maker will pick the prospect that offers the highest expected utility. But as has been demonstrated by Kahnemann a...

Herzberg’s Two Factors Theory on Work Motivation: Does Its Work for Todays Environment?

This paper review the conventional setting of Herzberg Two-Factors Theory and compare with current research finding that implemented the theory. This paper discuss findings from various countries and industries have found contrariwise with the theory, where Extrinsic Factors that should only turn up with job dissatisfactions or neutralize feelings towards jobs have indeed effected respondents’ ...

Looking at cancer through an evolutionary lens.

O ver the centuries, physicians have conceptualized cancer in many ways. Hippocrates viewed it as a malfunction of black bile. In India it was treated as an imbalance of Ayurvedic principles of dosha. Modern medicine has viewed cancer in terms of genetic mutations. Now some researchers are saying we should step back and view cancer through the lens of evolution and ecology to better understand ...

Looking into Reactome through Biopax Lens

In order to understand cell behavior under different conditions, the computational simulation of biological pathways is of great interest. Hence, to simulate a biological pathway computationally, extensive knowledge of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in the pathway is required, along with the information about the generic flow of the pathway components i.e. biological reactions, which compr...

Do patients want a choice and does it work?