scholarly journals Towards Behavior Control for Evolutionary Robot Based on RL with ENN

10.5772/53992 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingan Yang ◽  
Yanbin Zhuang ◽  
Chunguang Li
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Control

scholarly journals Fashion Consumers’ Channel Switching Behavior During the COVID-19: Protection Motivation Theory in the Extended Planned Behavior Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2098652
Author(s):  
Song-yi Youn ◽  
Jung Eun Lee ◽  
Jung Ha-Brookshire
Keyword(s):  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Protection Motivation Theory ◽  
Switching Behavior ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Channel Switching ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Response Efficacy ◽  
Perceived Behavior Control ◽  
Perceived Behavior

The purpose of this study is to understand fashion consumers’ channel switching to online stores during the COVID-19. We proposed an extended theory of planned behavior by incorporating protection motivation theory. The results showed that consumer assessments of perceived severity and altruistic fear of COVID-19 and response efficacy and self-efficacy of channel switching increased their beliefs (i.e., attitude, perceived behavior control, subjective norm) and intentions to switch shopping channels to online. We also found that the age (young vs. old) moderated the effects of response efficacy and self-efficacy on perceived behavior control, perceived severity on subjective norm, perceived behavior control on channel switching intentions, and channel switching intention on actual switching behavior. The findings provide fashion retailers and the society with a better understanding about fashion consumers’ shopping channel switching under the pandemic.

Nursing Staff Attitude, Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavior Control, and Intention to Provide Tobacco Treatment in a Psychiatric Hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. 107839032110457
Author(s):  
Bassema Abufarsakh ◽  
Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tobacco Treatment ◽  
Perceived Behavior Control ◽  
Perceived Behavior

Background: Although the nursing staff is fundamental in assisting individuals with mental illnesses (MI) to stop tobacco use, they often have mixed feelings about providing tobacco treatment (TT) services to people with MI in inpatient psychiatric settings. Objective: Therefore, this study aimed to understand factors associated with nursing staff’s intentions to provide TT interventions for individuals diagnosed with MI in a psychiatric facility using the constructs of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Method: Secondary data analysis was performed using cross-sectional data collected from 98 nursing staff who worked in a state inpatient psychiatric facility. A 15-item questionnaire was used to assess nursing staff intentions to provide TT services based on TPB constructs, including attitudes (four items), subjective norms (four items), perceived behavioral controls (four items), and intentions (three items) toward providing TT. The mean scores of each subscale ranged from 1 to 7. A logistic regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between TBP constructs and nursing staff intentions to provide TT for people with MI. Results: Nursing staff had an acceptable mean score in the intentions subscale (4.34 ± 2.01). Only two constructs of TPB explained nursing staff intentions to provide TT: subjective norms (OR = 2.14, 95% CI [1.46, 3.13]) and perceived behavioral control (OR = 2.33, 95% CI [1.32, 4.12]). Conclusions: The constructs of the TPB, the subjective norms, and the perceived behavior control were able to predict nurses’ intentions to provide TT for inpatients in a psychiatric setting. Accordingly, we suggest implementing policies that make TT a normative practice while supporting the confidence and competence of nurses to deliver TT in psychiatric facilities.

Ethical Issues in the Care of Handicapped, Chronically III, and Dying Children

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 291-296
Author(s):  
Norman C. Fost
Keyword(s):  
Lung Disease ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Court Order ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Incompetent Patient ◽  
Dying Children ◽  
Broad Consensus

There is presently broad consensus that involuntary sterilization of an incompetent patient should be done only in the following unusual circumstances, and then only after approval by a court: 1. If the progeny would be so severely damaged that their lives would be arguably worse than nonexistence (eg, a disorder such as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome), OR a retarded female's physical or psychologic health would be seriously jeopardized by a pregnancy and/or abortion (eg, severe heart or lung disease), AND 2. There are no alternative, less restrictive ways of avoiding pregnancy (such as segregation, supervision, behavior control, or reversible forms of contraception), AND 3. There has been a court order, following a process designed to ensure that the procedure is necessary to protect the interests of the patient.

Factors Influencing Younger Users’ Continued Adoption of e-Health: A Study on Hospital Public Platform in a Large Public Hospital in China (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruan Yuan ◽  
Xie Qian ◽  
Wu Caibo
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Behavior Control ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Perceived Trust ◽  
Perceived Behavior Control ◽  
Expectation Confirmation ◽  
Perceived Behavior

BACKGROUND With the rapid development of the internet, hospital public platform (HPP) has been designed for the use in top state-owned public hospitals since 2009 to provide patients with appointment registrations, test result inquiry, online payment, online consultation and other services. This study was conducted to measure continued adoption and to identify factors that influence patients’ continued adoption of HPP. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to measure continued adoption and to identify factors that influence patients’ continued adoption of HPP. METHODS Expectancy Confirmation Theory (ECM-ISC) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used to assess the users’ continued adoption of HPP. A questionnaire was distributed to patients in Beijing Friendship Hospital, which measured constructs, including perceived usefulness, expectation confirmation, satisfaction, continuance intention, subject norm, perceived behavior control and adoption behavior. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to test the theoretical model. RESULTS The expectation confirmation significantly affected perceived usefulness, and satisfaction significantly affected continuance intention, while perceived usefulness had no significant effect on satisfaction and continuance intention. The subjective norm and perceived behavior control had significant influence on continuance intention. Perceived trust significantly affected satisfaction and continuance intention. The expectation confirmation had no significant impact on satisfaction, but it could affect satisfaction indirectly through perceived trust. Habit had a significant influence on adoption behavior and had a significant moderate effect between continuance intention and adoption behavior. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study provide an applied guideline for the successful application of e-health systems in public hospitals in cities. It also creates an opportunity for e-health service providers to have a better understanding of their patients, which may have far-reaching and positive implications for China’s ongoing reforms.

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