CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 2, APRIL 2006 101 John Edwards is the clinical administrator for Gift of Life Donor Program in Philadelphia, Pa, overseeing all clinical aspects of organ and tissue recovery, and a faculty member for the Gift of Life Institute, Philadelphia, providing training and mentoring for healthcare organizations nationally. Patti Mulvania oversees the clinical education prog...

CONTEXT Throughout the last decade a number of studies have been conducted to examine academic-industry research relationships. However, to our knowledge, no studies to date have empirically examined academic scientists' experience with research-related gifts from companies. OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency, importance, and potential implications of research-related gifts from companies to ...

Two experiments examine the process by which free gift promotions serve as a source of information about the underlying value of the product offered as a free gift. The value-discounting hypothesis argues that by virtue of being offered as a free gift, products will be valued less as evinced by lower purchase intentions and a lower price that consumers are willing to pay for them. Conditions th...

Recommender systems try to facilitate the decision making process of users, by recommending products such as movies, music and news articles. This work uses a user based recommender system to predict redemption probabilities of different gift cards. That is, the probability that a user redeems a gift card in a store, given that he or she receives it. This work is a base for ranking gift cards i...