BACKGROUND In India, the Revised National TB control programme (RNTCP) offers free diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB), based on the Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) strategy. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the experience and consequences of having TB on patients enrolled in DOTS and their caretakers in Tumkur district, located in a southern state of India,...

V is now the value of a reinforcer delivered after a variable delay, where there are n different possible delays to reinforcement. Pi is the probability that a delay of Di seconds will occur on any given trial. Mazur (1984) obtained fairly good predictions if K was set equal to 1, and this value of K will be used throughout this paper. To see how this model can be used to make specific predicti...

The value of the customer has been widely recognised in terms of financial planning and efficient resource allocation including the financial service industry. Previous studies have shown that directly observable information can be used in order to make reasonable predictions of customer attrition probabilities. However, these studies do not take full account of customer behavior information. I...

Family size has always been a key factor affecting household investment decision making behavior (Browning 1992). Yet, recently, household financial decision making issues have become even more acute for millions of households that are part of the “Sandwich Generation.” Households with children approaching collegeage are now providing financial support for aging relatives. This combined with th...

In light of the financial crisis, it has become even more critical for financial service providers to remain competitive. This paper discusses new perspectives on the problems of today’s advisory services, including the customer's dissatisfaction with personalization and individualization. Thereby we draw on research in human information behavior, particularly Wilson's model, which provides a p...

This study reports on five experiments that investigate professional corporate managers’ risky behavior across decision settings in which various forms of financial data are evaluated. Specifically, managers decisions to take or avoid risk are investigated when evaluating data in the form of profits, losses, revenues, costs, and expenditures. The results indicate that, with one exception (i.e.,...

Financial literacy and economic preferences are considered to be important drivers of health, income, general well-being. We bridge the gap between studies on financial research by investigating how they interplay with each other field behavior adolescents. First, we report that scores positively associated patience, male gender, educational level father. Second, observe risky like smoking gamb...