BACKGROUND The current doctrine of informed consent for clinical care has been developed in cultures characterized by low-context communication and monitoring-style coping. There are scarce empirical data on patients' norm perception of information disclosure in other cultures. METHODS We surveyed 470 adults who were planning to undergo or had recently undergone a written informed consent-req...

This study determines the differences in opinion of U-15 (20 boys) and U-16 (29 rugby players from Romanian national teams, regarding motivational support (MS) effects/benefits (EB) sport. The evaluation questionnaire (based on 21 items with closed answers 7 free answers) was applied between 29 November 2019 13 December 2019. statistical calculation indicates absence significant groups for most...

Biodiversity-friendly farming is a growing area of discussion among farmers, as well as in government departments and non-government organizations interested in conservation on private land. Those seeking to encourage biodiversity on farms must understand the production challenges presented by wildlife. Such species destroy agricultural commodities or present threats to family, pets, or infrast...

The past decade has seen an increasing interest in IT outsourcing as it promises companies many economic benefits. In recent years, IT paradigms, such as Software-as-a-Service or Cloud Computing using third-party services, are increasingly adopted. Current studies show that IT security and data privacy are the dominant factors affecting the perceived risk of IT outsourcing. Therefore, we explic...

there are many benefits for coordination of multiple suppliers when single supplier cannot satisfy buyer demands.  in addition, buyer needs to purchase multiple items in a real supply chain. so, a model that satisfies these requests has many advantages. we extend the existing approaches in the literature that assume all suppliers need to be put on a common replenishment cycle and each supplier ...

Protected areas in Kenya constitute 7% of the total land area with over 75% of wildlife in the country being found on private or communal land. Rural communities in Kenya, where protected areas generally exist, face a range of development issues with limited resources and livelihood opportunities. In this context, community-based biodiversity conservation has the potential to promote ecotourism...

Perceived risks and benefits of quitting smoking may be important factors in successful treatment. This study examined the association between initial perceived risks and benefits of quitting smoking and outcomes during a two month smoking cessation attempt. Participants (n = 185) were treatment-seeking smokers attending two smoking cessation clinics in Klang Valley, Malaysia. They received str...

The article endeavors to validate the scale developed by Mimouni-Chaabane and Volle (2010) that measures perceived benefits of customer loyalty programs in the Indian context. On running exploratory and subsequently confirmatory factor analyses based on the responses collected from loyalty program members from two Indian cities and across different industries, the researchers opine that in the ...

Three dimensions of acceptance for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems (CMCS) were only moderately interrelated in a longitudinal study of users of four systems: use, subjective satisfaction, and benefits. The methodological objective of this study was to identify generaiizabie factor structures for acceptance of CMCS, based on a small set of items. Analysis of the items measuring subjectiv...