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Yau, KKW; Ng, ASK - 2001

random effects. In this paper, the long-term survivor mixture model is extended for the analysis of multivariate failure time …

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The Social Significance of Sleep for Older People with Dementia in the Context of Care

Martin, Wendy; Bartlett, Helen - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 5, pp. 11-11

body and sleep; (2) memory loss and perceptions of sleep, time and place; and (3) a sense of vulnerability around night-time …

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Prospect Theory for joint time and money consequences in risk and ambiguity

Kemel, Emmanuel; Paraschiv, Corina - In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 56 (2013) C, pp. 81-95

involve several attributes, such as time and money. Time-money tradeoffs have been studied in depth in transport economics … paper aims to measure the impact of uncertainty and information on multi-attribute decisions using Prospect Theory. In doing … propose a fast and tractable method for measuring Prospect Theory parameters that capture attitudes towards probabilities …

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Optimal funding and asset allocation rules for defined-benefit pension plans

Harrison, J. Michael; Sharpe, William F. - In: Financial aspects of the United States pension system, (pp. 91-105). 1983

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People and community as constituent parts of hazards: the significance of societal dimensions in hazards analysis

Haque, C.; Etkin, David - In: Natural Hazards 41 (2007) 2, pp. 271-282

Nature-triggered hazards and disasters have traditionally been treated only from the lens of geophysical and biophysical processes, implying that the root cause of large-scale death and destruction lies in the natural domain rather than in a coupled human–environment system. Conceptually, the...

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A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ON RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND INFORMATION

NARA, YUMIKO - In: New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC) 06 (2010) 02, pp. 167-176

In this paper, the author aims to examine the differences in perception concerning the anxiety toward the risk among three countries — Japan, the United States of America and China. The anxiety, in this case, is triggered by uncertainty. This paper also intends to clarify the effect of...

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Parenting with bipolar disorder: Coping with risk of mood disorders to children

Peay, Holly Landrum; Rosenstein, Donald L.; Biesecker, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 194-200

Children of individuals with bipolar disorder (BPD) have increased risk for mood disorders and other adverse psychosocial outcomes due to genetic and environmental risk. Though parents with BPD are aware of increased risk to children, little is known about efforts undertaken in response or their...

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Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: Talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety

Szymczak, Julia E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 120 (2014) C, pp. 252-259

To improve patient safety, hospitals have implemented interventions to change their culture. Although there is great enthusiasm for these interventions at policy and management levels, we know little about how clinicians talk about “culture” as they do the work of quality and safety...

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Risk as feelings in the effect of patient outcomes on physicians' future treatment decisions: A randomized trial and manipulation validation

Hemmerich, Joshua A.; Elstein, Arthur S.; Schwarze, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 2, pp. 367-376

' negative treatment outcomes on physicians' subsequent treatment decisions. Two experiments at The University of Chicago, U.S.A …

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Women's childbirth preferences and practices in the United States

Miller, Amy Chasteen; Shriver, Thomas E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 4, pp. 709-716

Over the past two decades, research on childbirth worldwide has documented women's varied perceptions of and decision-making regarding childbirth. Scholars have demonstrated the impact of medical authority, religion, perception of risk, and access to care providers on the decisions women make...

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