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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"monetary reward"”.
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Effects of Self-Monitoring and Monetary Reward on Fluid Adherence among Adult Hemodialysis Patients
The effects of a monetary reward and self-monitoring on reducing interdialytic weight gain (IWG) were compared for 6 hemodialysis patients in an outpatient setting. A single-subject experimental design (A-B-BC-B-BC) was used to examine each variable individually and in combination, with alternating …
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The Timing and Magnitude of Monetary Reward: Testing Hypotheses from Expectancy vs. Reciprocity Theory
… behavior-change strategies, which offer a reward after a behavior is completed (post-behavior reward); reciprocity-based strategies present the reward first in the form of a gift (pre-behavior reward). Although there are no explicit contingencies attached to the gift, a sense of obligation …
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Variations in Earnings in the Work Settings: A Work Stratification Perspective (Work Rewards, Achievements, Sexual Inequalities, Managerial Earning Processes, Resource Allocation)
… generalizability of work power conception, and monetary reward allocation for a sample of Illinois workers and subsamples of men vs. women and managers vs. nonmanagers.
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Adversarial uses of affective computing and ethical implications
… a tedious task that allows increasing their monetary reward by reporting they solved more problems than they actually did. The Interview Experiment centers on a job interview where some participants hide or distort information, interviewers are rewarded for hiring the honest, and where …
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Pinpointing the cerebellum's contribution to social reward processing
… for our mental models to help us. From a reward processing standpoint, this requires tracking the value (positive or negative) of people’s valence to us and ensuring that our predictions about people’s affect towards us are correct. The aim of this project was to specify how the posterior …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of the performance appraisal system in the public sector in Namibia: A case of Ministry of Works and Transport Human Resource department at Head Office in Windhoek
… used are not effective. The study reveal that, monetary reward as appropriate scheme to reward public sector employees was expressed by 56% of non-management personnel and 44% called for non-financial but rather recognition and this was supported by three (3) management personnel. Also, 60% of …
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Agents’ Performance and Emotions: An Experimental Investigation
… also informed about the allocation of an extra monetary reward. Participants are then asked to choose their level of investment. They can also sabotage their opponent. Results show that perceived unfairness of the reward allocation rule, expectations of investment and sabotage, and competitive …
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Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Organisations: The Case of Open Source Software Communities
… incentives/benefits for the future and monetary reward do not play a role on their own, but they influence the level of roles and the level of activeness, which in turn influence the level of knowledge sharing, which is important for the level of personal contribution on product …
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A comparative investigation into the applicability of gain-sharing programmes for the improvement of productivity in the automotive sector of South Africa
… as a result of its improved performance. It is a monetary reward that helps boosts a company’s productivity and radically reduces the cost of waste, spoilage, rejects, and rework. It can be used to replace bonus piecework schemes where quality is lost to quantity. The study focuses on gainsharing, …
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Social and economic decision-making in Urbach-Wiethe Disease
… and others based on learned probability of monetary reward or loss. A random effects Generalised Least Squares regression was conducted using Stata 15.1. to assess discrimination between Gain and Loss domains. A social-decision making task was also administered. Results: When making choices …
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Hedonics, Reward Prediction, and Reinforcement Learning in Schizophrenia: Relationships to Anhedonia and Avolition
… three processes involved in the translation of reward information in the environment into goal-directed action among medicated individuals with schizophrenia. The first process, hedonics, or the enjoyment of pleasant experiences, was examined using an fMRI study of emotional experience in …
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Essays in Information Economics
… in advance allows the policy maker to use a monetary reward to incentivise the expert to invest more in his communication skills.
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Algorithmic Interactions With Strategic Users: Incentives, Interplay, and Impact
… individual can share her data in exchange for a monetary reward but at the same time has a private heterogeneous privacy cost which we quantify using differential privacy. We consider two popular data market architectures: central and local. In both settings, we establish minimax lower bounds for …
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Respect & Recognition: What’s the Story?
… level. The research clearly shows how little monetary reward is considered in the return to education. The primary aim of the participants is a general one of self improvement and development. As early school leavers the individuals in this research considered the path to third level a magical …
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Functional neuroimaging studies of peripheral inflammation-related depression
… and/or signaling in other motivational or reward-related circuits, which could be clinically manifest as dysregulation or misrepresentation of emotional states, i.e., feelings of depression. In Chapter 7, I investigated abnormalities of affective traits, e.g., anhedonia and pessimism, using …