In this paper, we define the crowdfunding platform (CFP) a virtual place where project creators document their projects for gaining awareness or social support for making the project proceed. By doing so, project teams can voice the propositions they have worked on or they may also speak out on one party’s behalf for seeking advices. This paper proposes a research framework that targets the iss...

Abstract The maple syrup industry has growth potential in the United States. Foresters can help expand by supporting private forest management decisions to improve tree health and sap production. This study examined influence of advice solicitation, active listening, forester traits (i.e., expertise, confidence, trustworthiness, shared forestland values) on outcomes professional about productio...

objective: infertility is an important social concern. environmental factors such as smoking and tobacco consumption can affect sperm and follicular function and infertility. smoke cessation reduces its complications and makes infertility treatment more effective which motivates and encourages infertile smokers to consider quitting. the aim of current study was to assess brief smoking cessation...

This paper reports an exploratory study of 19 Australian SMEs which had successfully used eCommerce develop to or enhance their export capability. The purpose of the study was to identify both successful adoption processes and impediments to using eCommerce for export. Few companies had adopted a strategic and planned approach to managing this adoption. The lack of easily accessed and trustwort...

The flexible and efficient support of the process of product design and production requires combined expertise from many aspects of the product life-cycle, and the management and use of this knowledge in turn increasingly requires sophisticated computer-based advice systems. In this chapter we present a constraint-based approach to making the full First-Order Predicate Calculus available for kn...

One of the more enduring beliefs about decision making is that if we think hard enough, and are rational and objective enough, we can make better choices. This advice works well when our decisions are clearly defined and time is plentiful. But in wilderness settings, our decisions are less clear and time is short, and the standard advice is not only cumbersome but, in some cases, dangerously mi...

A 72-year-old woman with autoimmune hypothyroidism and type 1 diabetes mellitus presented with 1 year of progressively worsening neck, back, and right thigh spasms and leg stiffness. Sudden loud noises would startle her. She ambulated with a walking frame. Serum glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 antibody was markedly elevated (1,118 nmol/L; normal value #0.02 nmol/L). EMG demonstrated poor relaxat...

Recommender systems promise to support travelers in complex decision-making processes; however, whether a recommendation is seen as credible advice and actually taken into account not only depends on travelers' perceptions of the recommendation but also of the system as the advice giver. A scale to measure recommender system credibility was developed and tested. The results confirm that credibi...

Over the past decades, a large body of research in fields such as knowledge utilization, evidencebased policy making, or epistemic communities, has been addressing the conditions under which expert advice can play a role in policy design. This research has been successful in exploring the complex role of expertise in the policy process and has produced a number of hypotheses relating to institu...

This paper examines a remarkable lawsuit in health care rationing. The Patients Association for Interstitial Cystitis sued the Dutch National Health Care Institute for alleged misconduct against Interstitial Cystitis patients, as the Institute decided that bladder instillations with chondroitin sulphate or hyaluronic acid are no longer covered by the basic health insurance. The patients' organi...