Modeling Cross Category Purchase Decision Making with Consumers’ Mental Budgeting Control Habit

Cross-category decision making is an ongoing research in decision science. Cross-category modeling is a powerful tool for big data and business analytics. Cross-category decision making involves evaluating multiple categories for complementary/substitutional utilities. This paper examines consumers’ mental budgeting control habit for its impact on cross purchase decisions. This factor has not been examined in existing cross modeling literature. This paper fits a base cross category model and a budgeting control habit cross model using a consumer grocery shopping dataset. The results show that by incorporating this variable in the cross model, model fit score and prediction accuracy are significantly improved. The budgeting control habit factor has significant moderating effects on price effects and cross price effects. In addition to providing the modeling technique, this paper also finds that consumers classify basket items into root and add-on categories. The common sense that price drop boosts sales is only true for the root category items. Price drop of add-on items may trigger consumers reconfiguring their basket items but not necessarily increase sales of the add-on items themselves.

Quantifying semantic animacy: How much are words alive?

ABSTRACTThe main goal of this study, which comprised two experimental tasks and three normative studies, was to describe the underlying distribution of semantic animacy, with the focus on Serbian and English. Animacy was measured using three normative techniques. The cognitive effects of obtained measures were tested in two experiments conducted in both Serbian and English: a visual lexical decision task and a semantic categorization task. Results suggest that semantic animacy is a graded property. A high correlation between Serbian and English measures suggests that semantic animacy might be language independent, most likely because of its biological grounding. As for its behavioral correlates, animacy does not affect lexical decision times but it does codetermine the categorization speed: the category decision gradually slows as a function of the degree of animacy. These results were consistent across two languages under research scrutiny. We thus conclude that animacy is a continuous aspect of meaning.

Categorization of measures of quality in radiation treatment.

187 Background: The Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) has revised an outdated version of quality assurance (QA) guidelines for use in Canadian radiation treatment (RT) centres. This updated document contains concise, specific quality statements against which program structure and performance can be evaluated. Our objective was to review available international guidelines for quality in RT, categorize them according to a defined taxonomy, and inform a modified Delphi process for further evaluation of the guidelines. Methods: We identified 8 relevant standards documents issued by jurisdictions internationally. Taken together, 454 statements, or groups of statements, describing measures of quality were identified. These disparate quality statements were consolidated into a limited number of manageable groups using an appropriate classification scheme. A decision tree with two major categories was developed. Category 1 was based on the classification proposed by Donabedian as to whether the statement addressed a structure, process, outcome, or other. Category 2 addressed whether the statement referred to activities directed towards the organization, patients, staff, equipment/clinical processes, or other. Five reviewers assigned each of the 454 statements independently to one of these 20 (4 x 5) category decision tree endpoints. Results: A free marginal kappa analysis of agreement between the 5 reviewers in all 20 endpoints yielded a value of 0.38 which is fair agreement. Restricting analysis to Category 1, there is better agreement with a kappa of 0.54. Alternatively, 3 or more of the 5 reviewers agreed on their assignments 93% of the time for Category 1 and 76% for Categories 1 and 2. There were 290 statements with less than 100% agreement in Category 1 extracted for a second mapping using additional descriptive qualifiers. Subsequently, the overall free-marginal kappa increased to 0.71, considered substantial agreement. Conclusions: Kappa values varied among the 8 documents reviewed, possibly indicating differences in clarity of the descriptions. The 454 standards identified have been categorized and provide a manageable input to our ongoing effort to maintain appropriate, up-to-date Canadian quality guidelines for RT.

Evaluation of the standard of the registers of nursing in a private hospital in the city of São Paulo

RESUMOO prontuário do paciente é um documento legal que deve conter as informações da internação, portanto é fundamental conhecer os aspectos legais para dimensionar a importância do registro correto de todas as atividades. Este estudo teve por objetivos: 1) Avaliar o padrão de registros de enfermagem quanto ao local de origem do registro, horário de preenchimento, categoria profissional, Decisão COREN-SP-DIR/001/2000, SAE e débitos; 2) Enumerar medidas que direcionem as ações do serviço de Educação Continuada. Tratou-se de pesquisa descritiva, retrospectiva e abordagem quantitativa. A amostra, de 150 prontuários, foi selecionada por conglomerado. O levantamento e análise dos dados demonstraram, de forma geral, que os registros apresentaram falhas, que há uma necessidade de intervenção e as medidas de suporte sugeridas neste estudo pretenderam contemplar estas necessidades. Palavras-chave: Registros; Enfermagem; Padrão.ABSTRACTPatient’s prompt book is a legal document that must contain the internment information. Therefore it is essential to know the legal aspects to evaluate the importance of the correct register of all the activities. This study presented the following goals: 1) To evaluate the standard of registers of nursing concerning the origin place of the register, time of fulfilling, professional category, Decision COREN-SP-DIR/001/2000, SAE and debts; 2) To number measures that direct the actions of the service of Continued Education. It was a descriptive research, as well as a retrospective ones and the approach was a quantitative ones. The sample, from 150 prompt books, was selected by conglomerate. The survey and analysis of the data had demonstrated in general that, the registers had presented imperfections and that an intervention was necessary, and the suggested measures of support in this study had intended to contemplate these necessities. Keywords: Registers; Nursing; Standard.RESUMENEl manual del paciente es un documento jurídico que debe contener la información de la internación, por lo tanto es básico saber los aspectos legales para dimensionar la importancia del registro correcto de todas las actividades. Este estudio que tuvo por objetivos: 1) Evaluar el patrón de registros de los cuidados de los enfermeros cuanto al lugar de origen del registro, del horario que los registros son escritos, categoría profesional, Decisión COREN-SP-DIR/001/2000, del SAE y debitos; 2) Enumerar las medidas que direcciones las acciones del servicio de la educación continuada. Se encargó de investigación descriptiva, retrospectiva y cuantitativa. La muestra de 150 manuales, fue seleccionada por el conglomerado. El examen y análisis de los datos demostraron, de manera general, que los registros presentaron imperfecciones, y la necesidad de intervención. Las medidas de soporte sugeridas en este estudio intentaron poner la atención y contemplar estas necesidades. Palabras clave: Registros; Enfermería; Patrón.