The importance placed on risk avoidance in our society has resulted in a broad range of regulations intended to guarantee safety of products such as pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Many of these regulations rely on animal tests. As a result, about 25% of the animal experiments in Europe are done for regulatory purposes. There are many initiatives that aim to replace, reduce, or refine laboratory...

In this paper, a group acceptance sampling plan is developed for a truncated life test when the lifetime of an item follows the Marshall-Olkin extended exponential distribution. The minimum number of groups required for a given group size and the acceptance number is determined when the consumer’s risk and the test termination time are specified. The operating characteristic values, according t...

Confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cells are increasingly becoming the selected option for the management of unacceptably contaminated sediments. CAD cells are selected as the preferred alternative because this approach provides an acceptable compromise when cost, logistics, regulatory acceptance, environmental risk, and perception of various alternatives are considered. This preference for CAD ce...

Developing software agents that users will trust with sensitive information is very difficult. The nature of the twice-removed relationship between the users and their tasks is described, and the concerns and opportunities of this relationship are explored. A model of agent acceptance is then proposed based on earlier work on user attitudes towards e-commerce transactions. This model describes ...

In this paper, a hybrid group acceptance sampling plan is developed for a truncated life test when the lifetime of an item follows log-logistic distribution. The minimum number of testers and acceptance number are determined when the consumer’s risk and the test termination time and group size are specified. The operating characteristic values according to various quality levels are found and t...

BACKGROUND As 1 of 3 remaining poliovirus-endemic countries, Nigeria has become key to the global polio eradication effort. We evaluated supplemental immunization activities, including team performance, communications/mobilization activities, and vaccine acceptance, in 3 high-risk states. METHODS We used structured survey and observation instruments, document review, and stakeholder interview...

While online technologies and applications are rapidly and widely utilized and adopted in e-commerce, it is extremely important to better understand the perceptions of consumers’ use, and acceptance in mobile commerce (MC). This paper adopts the extended technology acceptance model (TAM2) and integrated it with the innovation diffusion theory and the perceived risk variable to model users’ acce...

Matching a set of agents to a set of objects has many real applications. One well-studied framework is that of prioritybased matching, in which each object is assumed to have a priority order over the agents. The Deferred Acceptance (DA) and Top-Trading-Cycle (TTC) mechanisms are the best-known strategy-proof mechanisms. However, in highly anonymous environments, the set of agents is not known ...

The public’s acceptance of independent autonomous vehicles and cooperative vehicle-highway is studied by combining the structural equation model an artificial neural network. model’s output variables are used as input network, which compensates for linear problem ensures accuracy In order to summarize influencing factors acceptance, Unified Theory Acceptance Use Technology was expanded adding t...