The Laws, Regulations, Guidelines, and Industry Practices that Protect Consumers Who Use Gift Cards

Opioid prescribing: guidelines, laws, rules, regulations, policies, best practices.

Prescription drug abuse, misuse and unintentional overdose deaths are major public health concerns and have captured the attention of regulators at every level. There is no shortage of guidelines, laws, rules, regulations, and policies regarding opioid prescribing. Physicians struggle with their duty to treat pain, and yet balance this against the risk to patients as well as the potential for d...

Guidelines for selecting journals that avoid fraudulent practices in scholarly publishing

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

Analyzing the Laws , Regulations , and Policies Affecting

Analyzing the Laws , Regulations , and Policies Affecting

On the Mental Accounting of Restricted-Use Funds: How Gift Cards Change What People Purchase

This article emphasizes the role of categorization in mental accounting and proposes that once a mental account is established, purchases that are highly congruent with the purpose of the mental account (i.e., typical category members) will be more preferred in selection decisions compared to purchases that are less congruent (i.e., atypical category members). This hypothesis is tested in the c...