Impatient Accumulation, Immediate Consumption

On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption

How does the anticipated connectedness between one’s current and future identity help explain impatience in intertemporal preferences? The less consumers are closely connected psychologically to their future selves, the less willing they will be to forgo immediate benefits in order to ensure larger deferred benefits to be received by that future self. When consumers’ measured or manipulated sen...

TEX for the impatient

"The impatient patient".

Modern Healthcare Systems that have embraced ICT and Internet technologies (referred to as Health 1.0) are evolving towards self management but from a clinical knowledge perspective. In contrast, from a user experience perspective, and using the latest web 2.0 technologies, the developing healthcare social networking communities (referred to as Health 2.0) are evolving towards becoming online m...

The impatient patient.

Queueing Performance with Impatient Customers

customer which exceeds its deadline will either leave the queue without service or stay in the queue to get unsucWe consider the problem of scheduling impatient CUScessful service. One application of this problem is the tomers in a non-preemptive G/GI/1 queue. Every CUStransmission of time-constrained messages over a comtomer has a random deadline to the beginning of its munication channel. The...