OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient factors such as knowledge, attitude, motivation, perception, socio-economic status and travel time to health facilities and assess how these factors affected patients' decision to pursue cervical cancer screening with visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA). METHODS A total of 80 women of childbearing age who visited Kenjeran and B...

We develop the parametric weighted ordered weighted average (WOWA) operator in dynamic decision problems represented by multi-criteria decision tree, which combines the regular increasing monotonic (RIM) quantifiers with piecewise linear function. The parametric WOWA operator with piecewise linear function can be used to represent various preferences of the decision makers in the forms of risk ...

As online social network are so popular, their users are getting used to make decisions based on opinions collected from their friends. While conventional decision support system has been extensively investigated, little specific mechanism, however, on how social networks can help users with online purchasing decision-making is developed. By introducing design rationale and social impact theory...

The health care system can play a significant role in the decision making family and directing them toward satisfaction of donating organs. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the attitude of employed nurses about organs donation, brain death and its related professional factors. This study was conducted in 2015 that samples were selected through the systematic random sampling ...

We evaluate the applicability of a decision making framework to the teenage contraceptive and sexual behavior of 1032 Philadelphia teenagers. We examine three reasons why the decision making perspective may not apply in this domain: (a) because the decision makers are teenagers, (b) because the decision concerns sexual behavior, and (c) because the costs of contraception and abstinence are imme...

Upgrading existing buildings to meet current seismic design codes is important in high seismic hazard regions. Decision makers must choose from many possible retrofitting options, each with inherent advantages and disadvantages. The two main decision drivers that are commonly used are: increasing engineering performance (ductility, strength, etc.) and reducing cost. There is currently little in...

This article focuses on how psychological science can be used to maintain and elicit desirable behaviors. It discusses human motivation, decision-making, attitudinal changes, long-term versus short-term goals, group process, leadership, communication and change process. Attitude change is presented as a three-stage process: unfreezing, moving, and refreezing, and attempts to change an attitude ...

In this paper, to cope with the stochastic dynamic (or multi-period) problem, two new quadratic assignment-based mathematical models corresponding to the dynamic and static approaches are developed. The product demands are presumed to be dependent uncertain variables with normal distribution having known expectation, variance, and covariance that change from one period to the next one, randomly...