A dual acceptance criterion based on the sample mean and an extreme order is used in many inspection procedures. Computation of the acceptance probability for such a dual criterion is investigated. An approximation and a lower bound to the acceptance probability are derived and are applicable to any continuous distribution. In addition. the connection between this dual criterion and hypothesis ...

Mobile payments represent an extremely interesting paradox in the world of mobile telecommunications, still not showing success in most markets. Customer acceptance turned out to be a decisive factor. In order to gain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior this paper introduces a consumer acceptance model that addresses perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective security, and ...

Recently smart card is used all over the world in different applications such as financial, telecommunication, network, and physical access where the security is considered very crucial. User acceptance is very significant in successful implementation of smart card technology. Thus, in order to investigate the user adoption of the technology, the instrument to identify the user acceptance is ne...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based psychotherapy, grounded in the behavioral and cognitive behavioral traditions. ACT attempts to alter the normal impact of human cognition in order to increase the capacity for behavior change. The present paper briefly discusses philosophical and theoretical positions of ACT along with empirical supports for ...

Executable Acceptance Test Driven Development (EATDD) is an extension of Test Driven Development (TDD). TDD requires that unit tests are written before any code. EATDD pushes this TDD paradigm to the customer level by using Acceptance Tests to specify the requirements and features of a system. The Acceptance Tests are mapped to a Fixture that permits the automated execution of the tests. With o...

What is the best way to teach evolution? As microevolution may be configured as a branch of genetics, it being a short conceptual leap from understanding the concepts of mutation and alleles (i.e., genetics) to allele frequency change (i.e., evolution), we hypothesised that learning genetics prior to evolution might improve student understanding of evolution. In the UK, genetics and evolution a...

Although eHealth technologies offer an enormous potential to improve healthcare, the knowledge about key determinants of acceptance for eHealth technology is restricted. While the underlying technology of eHealth technologies and Information and Communication technology (ICT) is quite similar, utilization contexts and using motives are quite different. In order to explore the role of technology...

in this research, the production of plum pastille-like with starch and gelatin was studied. thirteen formulation of plum pastille-like were prepared according to a second-order composite rotatable design (with five central points). response surface methodology (rsm) was used to optimize product formulation with: gelatin concentration ranging from 3.85 to 6.925 % (w/w), and starch concentration ...

UNLABELLED Instruments to assess chronic pain acceptance have been developed and used. However, whether and to what extent the content of the items reflects acceptance remain uninvestigated. A content analysis of 13 instruments that aim to measure acceptance of chronic pain was performed. A coding scheme was used that consisted of 3 categories representing the key components of acceptance, that...