Psychosocial Needs-Assessment with Families Experiencing Cancer: Executive Summary

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51171/1/404.pd

Service Usage and Need: Reports from Patients and Significant Others Dealing with Leukemia and Lymphoma

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51177/1/410.pd

Livestock Bedding Effects on Two Species of Parasitoid Wasps of Filth Flies

Choice of livestock bedding has been shown to affect density of filth fly maggots. Here, laboratory experiments indicate that bedding type can also affect natural enemies of the flies, specifically the parasitoid wasps Spalangia endius Walker and Urolepis rufipes (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) parasitizing a natural host, the house fly Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) . For both parasitoid species, when females parasitized hosts under bedding, cedar shavings resulted in fewer parasitoids compared with pine shavings, but pine shavings did not differ from wood pellets and corn cob pellets. In the absence of exposure to hosts, longevity of adult females was reduced in cedar shavings compared with pine shavings and pellets. In contrast to the effects on parasitization and on adult survival, shavings treatment had no significant effect on the number of parasitoids or flies that emerged when hosts were not exposed to shavings until after parasitization

Self-Helf Groups: A Comparative and International Study of Social Support and Social Action

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51145/1/377.pd

Information richness and trust in V-commerce: implications for services marketing

Purpose: The potential for e-commerce is limited by a trust deficit when traders do not interact in a physical, bricks-and-mortar context. The theory of information richness posits that equivocal interactions, such as ones requiring trust, can be facilitated through communication media that transmit multiple cues interactively. We examine the potential of information-rich virtual worlds to reduce this trust deficit compared with more traditional web-based e-tailing environments. Design/Methodology: Rather than focusing on stated intentions we adopt an experimental approach to measure behaviour. Participants receive performance-related financial incentives to perform trust games in different information-rich treatments that represent three retail environments: a physical environment representing bricks-and-mortar trade, an electronic environment representing web-based online retailing and a virtual environment representing virtual world retail. Findings: We find that the two dimensions of trust significantly differ between the treatments. In particular, as hypothesised, both trustingness and trustworthiness are higher in the virtual than in the electronic environment. However, contrary to our hypotheses, physical trade is not associated with greater trust than virtual trade. Implications: We extend previous research by demonstrating how the information richness of the virtual world interface can promote e-commerce by deepening trust between trading partners. Our research also complements existing work that approaches product and service interfaces through the lens of servicescapes. The findings also contribute towards the development of services marketing practice and the design of e-commerce environments

Giving and Receiving Social Support: A Special Challenge for Leukemia and Lymphoma Patients and their Families

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51187/1/420.pd

Coping With Cancer: Life Changes Reported by Patients and Significant Others Dealing with Leukemia and Lymphoma

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51194/1/427.pd