Client Behavior Research Articles

Prediction of Consumer Purchase Intension

The change in recent years from physical store visits to online purchasing has made it more crucial than ever to predict client behavior in the context of e-commerce. It can increase consumer satisfaction and sales by offering a more customized purchasing experience, improving conversion rates and giving businesses a competitive edge. Customer data can be added to and used to build models for predicting consumer behavior.In this study, a big German clothing shop uses machine learning models to forecast a purchase, which is an important use case. This study goes beyond simply evaluating the performance of the models on sequential and static customer data by conducting a descriptive data analysis and individually training the models on the various datasets. Total of three different algorithms.

Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics

Correction: Modeling the antecedents of multigenerational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics

Increased clonality among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Distancing measures during the COVID-19 lockdown led to a temporary decrease of casual sex partners among clients of the Centre for Sexual Health (CSH) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We investigated the effect of this change on the genotypic and phenotypic distribution of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) isolates from CSH patients. From each Ng-positive patient we sequenced one isolate, resulting in 322 isolates which constituted two groups: 181 isolates cultured from 15 January to 29 February 2020 (before the first lockdown) and 141 cultured from 15 May to 30 June 2020 (during the first lockdown). Patient characteristics showed significantly more symptomatic patients and significantly fewer reported sex partners during the lockdown. Phenotypic data showed an increase in low-level azithromycin resistance and ceftriaxone susceptibility during the lockdown, and this remained after the study period. The diversity in sequence types (STs) decreased slightly during the lockdown. A shift occurred from ST 8156 being predominant before lockdown to ST 9362 during lockdown and a remarkably low median SNP distance of 17 SNPs was found between ST 9362 isolates obtained during lockdown. These findings reflect restricted travel and the change in sexual behaviour of CSH clients during the lockdown, with a potentially increased local transmission of the ST 9362 strain during this period, which led to genotypic and phenotypic changes in the Ng population. This shows that public health measures have far-reaching consequences and should be considered in the surveillance of other infectious diseases.

Reframing Siswa Hafiz Quran dengan Self-Efficacy Rendah: Praktik Baik di Madrasah Aliyah Negeri

This study aims to determine the low self-efficacy of hafiz Al-Qur’an students. Implementation of good guidance practices for hafiz Al-Qur’an students with reframing techniques at MAN 1 Jember. The main informants of this descriptive qualitative research are teachers and students. Informants were selected using a purposive sampling technique by deliberately selecting religious subject teachers who practice good guidance to hafiz Al-Qur’an students. In this working paper, all student informants’ names are pseudonymous. In addition to semi-structured interviews, the author also extracted data from students’ digital report cards, guidance and counseling teacher notes, and students’ Al-Qur’an memorization notes. This study reports that the client’s form of low self-efficacy is procrastination in memorizing the Qur’an caused by low self-control, lack of self-confidence and affection from both parents, experiencing post-traumatic after their parents divorced, and being lazy to do muraja’ah (repetition of re-reading) of the Qur’an so that there is a feeling of “fear of being wrong” and fear of forgetting when reporting the memorization of the Qur’an to the teacher, as well as during the learning of Al-Qur’an Hadith. Students also often seem confused when explaining back the material they are learning. This study also found that Al-Qur’an Hadith teachers play an active role in providing guidance from the beginning of the first semester twice a month, by framing the client’s thoughts that lead to low self-efficacy. Although not yet getting the maximum change, but after three months of carrying out guidance, changes in client behavior have appeared after they are willing to read their memorized Al-Qur’an in front of the teacher.

Survey on Forecasting of E-Commerce Product Rating

Abstract: E-commerce websites are presently the most popular online shopping platforms for a broad spectrum of products. Users are now provided with numerous different sites to access and search for the needed items on the market. Several tactics are now being applied to evaluate and understand client behaviour in order to enhance corporate growth. One such method is the online product rating, which is a critical statistic for understanding a product's acceptance by users.

Health promotion experiences of Filipino physical therapists

Introduction: Health promotion is a potential solution to control and prevent non-communicable diseases, and physical therapists (PT) may be knowledgeable and skilled to be health promoters. However, there is a lack of health promotion policy in the country that can be used as a guideline for promoting health. This study aimed to describe the Filipino PTs health promotion experiences and strategies. Methods: A descriptive phenomenological design was utilized with a self-developed interview guide used for the focus group discussion. Qualitative data was analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Results: Physical therapists perceive the role of health promoters as significant and should be integrated into physical therapy practice. Participants described different health-promoting strategies that they incorporate in their practice that are: client education; client-centered approach; holistic service; and interprofessional collaboration. Several facilitators and barriers to health promotion also emerged: guidelines and frameworks or lack thereof; institutional support; interprofessional collaboration; networking; PTs interpersonal skills; client behavior; and health determinants. Participants described the determinants of health as the core factors that affect and influence the delivery of health promotion and behavior change of patients. The role of PTs as advocates of health promotion was also emphasized. Discussion: Filipino PTs practice health promotion in client care with several health-promoting strategies, however no specific and unifying health promotion guideline was identified among them. This suggests that our study may serve as a precursor to developing standard health promotion physical therapy practice guidelines aligned with physical therapy professional practice framework and national health promotion policies.

Investigating the Role of Meaning Therapy in People with Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior

Objective: The aim of this study was to review the role of meaning therapy in suicidal people from various domestic and foreign sources in the past few years. Research method: The present research method was review-library. Thus, the keywords of semantic therapy, suicide and mental disorders in the search engines of Persian article banks including scientific information database (SID), Noormags, Magiran and Civilica and foreign article banks including Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect and Scopus in the period 2000-2021 was searched and selected articles were selected for this research. Results: The research findings indicate the numerous studies of domestic and foreign researchers on the subject of meaning therapy. The results showed that different types of psychotherapy approaches, especially meaning therapy, which is more culturally close to our country, can play an effective role in helping suicidal people. Conclusion: Existential approaches such as meaning therapy can play a useful role in reducing suicidal thoughts and behavior in clients that should be considered in psychotherapy sessions.

Sustaining Recovery: What Does it Take to Remain in Long-term Recovery?

Background: Understanding the complexities of establishing and sustaining recovery from substance addiction and the dynamic individual processes that occur will assist addiction treatment professionals in fostering sustained recovery behavior in clients. With the estimated 22 million individuals in recovery from addiction in the United States, this exploration is timely and extends our understanding of recovery. Objectives: The objective of the study was to answer the research question: “What do individuals in recovery identify as their primary needs throughout the process of recovery from substance use?” Results: 403 adults in early, middle and late stages of recovery from drugs or alcohol and were asked to write in-depth responses to questions about factors leading to their recovery. Content analysis revealed several major themes: a) relationships, b) recovery community, c) thriving, d) goal-focused, e) people, places, and things, f) recovery tools, g) professional support, h) rock bottom, and i) abstinence. Chi-square analyses indicated that the recovery stage is significantly associated with what participants reported they believe they need to sustain recovery. Radial charts depict recovery community is a more reported needed factor for participants in long-term recovery than in early recovery. Conclusions: The results of this study highlight differences in the experiences of those in early recovery and those in late recovery. This demonstrates the dynamic nature of the recovery process and informs addiction treatment professionals of the multidimensional nature of recovery.

Modeling the antecedents of multi-generational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics

Modeling the antecedents of multi-generational services adoption behavior of clients across countries: The role of mindset metrics

Utilising interpersonal skills to manage challenging client behaviour

Widespread pandemic-related disruption has led to increasingly challenging client interactions. The British Veterinary Association (BVA) found that 57% of veterinary staff surveyed in 2021 reported feeling intimidated by client behaviour during the previous year; a 10% increase from 2019. The psychological impact of consistently difficult or abusive interactions can be significant and contribute to the high incidences of stress, burnout, attrition and potentially suicide increasingly noted in the industry. This understanding further highlights the need to focus on developing individual self-care strategies and leaders offering appropriate support to their team. Historically, veterinary education has overlooked the importance of training in interpersonal skills, such as communication, conflict resolution and emotional intelligence. However, human and veterinary medicine is evolving with increasing recognition of the significance of communication skills training to help prevent and manage of challenging client behaviour. This may help to ensure practitioners are better prepared for the challenges that await them.

Community Health Worker Use of Smart Devices for Health Promotion: Scoping Review

Community health workers (CHWs) have become essential to the promotion of healthy behaviors, yet their work is complicated by challenges both within and beyond their control. These challenges include resistance to the change of existing behaviors, disbelief of health messages, limited community health literacy, insufficient CHW communication skills and knowledge, lack of community interest and respect for CHWs, and CHWs' lack of adequate supplies. The rising penetration of "smart" technology (eg, smartphones and tablets) in low- and middle-income countries facilitates the use of portable electronic devices in the field. This scoping review examines to what extent mobile health in the form of smart devices may enhance the delivery of public health messages in CHW-client interactions, thereby addressing the aforementioned challenges and inducing client behavior change. We conducted a structured search of the PubMed and LILACS databases using subject heading terms in 4 categories: technology user, technology device, use of technology, and outcome. Eligibility criteria included publication since January 2007, CHWs delivering a health message aided by a smart device, and face-to-face communication between CHWs and clients. Eligible studies were analyzed qualitatively using a modified version of the Partners in Health conceptual framework. We identified 12 eligible studies, 10 (83%) of which used qualitative or mixed methods approaches. We found that smart devices mitigate challenges encountered by CHWs by improving their knowledge, motivation, and creativity (eg, through self-made videos); their status within the community; and the credibility of their health messages. The technology stimulated interest in both CHWs and clients-and sometimes even in bystanders and neighbors. Media content produced locally or reflecting local customs was strongly embraced. Yet, the effect of smart devices on the quality of CHW-client interactions was inconclusive. Interactions suffered as CHWs were tempted to replace educational conversations with clients by passively watching video content. Furthermore, a series of technical difficulties experienced especially by older and less educated CHWs compromised some of the advantages brought about by mobile devices. Adequate CHW training ameliorated these difficulties. Only 1 study (8%) considered client health behavior change as an end point, thus revealing a major research gap. Smart mobile devices may augment CHWs' field performance and enhance face-to-face interactions with clients, yet they also generate new challenges. The available evidence is scarce, mostly qualitative, and focused on a limited range of health outcomes. Future research should include larger-scale interventions across a wide range of health outcomes and feature client health behavior change as an end point.

Effective and Efficient DDoS Attack Detection Using Deep Learning Algorithm, Multi-Layer Perceptron

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks pose an increasing threat to businesses and government agencies. They harm internet businesses, limit access to information and services, and damage corporate brands. Attackers use application layer DDoS attacks that are not easily detectable because of impersonating authentic users. In this study, we address novel application layer DDoS attacks by analyzing the characteristics of incoming packets, including the size of HTTP frame packets, the number of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses sent, constant mappings of ports, and the number of IP addresses using proxy IP. We analyzed client behavior in public attacks using standard datasets, the CTU-13 dataset, real weblogs (dataset) from our organization, and experimentally created datasets from DDoS attack tools: Slow Lairs, Hulk, Golden Eyes, and Xerex. A multilayer perceptron (MLP), a deep learning algorithm, is used to evaluate the effectiveness of metrics-based attack detection. Simulation results show that the proposed MLP classification algorithm has an efficiency of 98.99% in detecting DDoS attacks. The performance of our proposed technique provided the lowest value of false positives of 2.11% compared to conventional classifiers, i.e., Naïve Bayes, Decision Stump, Logistic Model Tree, Naïve Bayes Updateable, Naïve Bayes Multinomial Text, AdaBoostM1, Attribute Selected Classifier, Iterative Classifier, and OneR.

Sweeteners World Trade and Behaviour in the Pandemic. Evidence from Honey Remedies Nexus Mountain Apis Mellifera Product.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12355-023-01243-6.

Using interpersonal skills to manage challenging client behaviour

Widespread pandemic-related disruption has led to increasingly challenging client interactions. The British Veterinary Association found that 57% of veterinary staff surveyed in 2021 reported feeling intimidated by client behaviour during the previous year; a 10% increase from 2019. The psychological impact of consistently difficult or abusive interactions can be significant and contribute to the high incidences of stress, burnout, attrition and potentially suicide increasingly noted in the industry. This understanding further highlights the need to focus on developing individual self-care strategies and leaders offering appropriate support to their team. Historically, veterinary education has overlooked the importance of training in interpersonal skills, such as communication, conflict resolution and emotional intelligence. However, human and veterinary medicine is evolving with increasing recognition of the significance of communication skills training to help prevent and manage of challenging client behaviour. This may help to ensure practitioners are better prepared for the challenges that await them.

Privacy-preserving authentication scheme based on zero trust architecture

Zero trust architecture is an end-to-end approach for server resources and data security which contains identity authentication, access control, dynamic evaluation, and so on. This work focuses on authentication technology in the zero trust network. In this paper, a Traceable Universal Designated Verifier Signature (TUDVS) is used to construct a privacy-preserving authentication scheme for zero trust architecture. Specifically, when a client requests access to server resources, we want to protect the client's access privacy which means that the server administrator cannot disclose the client's access behavior to any third party. In addition, the security of the proposed scheme is proved and its efficiency is analyzed. Finally, TUDVS is applied to the single packet authorization scenario of the zero trust architecture to prove the practicability of the proposed scheme.

Kajian Ontologi, Epistemologi dan Aksiologi dalam Bimbingan Konseling

The purpose of this article is to find out how important or urgent the study of ontology, epistemology and axiology is which is useful as a foundation in guidance and counseling where it becomes the basis for obtaining a science so that the science has been arranged logically, empirically and systematically which knowledge is These gains are manifested in the form of guidance and counseling in which the guidance and counseling process has also been systematically structured so that the knowledge of guidance and counseling is a study that studies deviant individual or client behavior that must be overcome with the help of a counselor. This writing was designed using the library method, or better known as literature study. The results of this literature review or literature review are the basis of knowledge about the study of ontology, epistemology and axiology, a basis for acquiring a science which will become science. systematically and empirically so that science has been tested for its truth. The truth of this knowledge must be based on ontology, epistemology and axiology, that is why if it has been proven by science such as guidance and counseling science, then a guidance and counseling science will be realized which in guidance and counseling science will discuss an individual or client's wrong behavior so that can be directed positively.

Application of the Person-Centered Care to Manage Responsive Behaviors in Clients with Major Neurocognitive Disorders: A Qualitative Single Case Study

ABSTRACT Objectives Our study aimed to describe “how” and “why” the person-centered care (PCC) approach was applied within a long-term care (LTC) community to manage responsive behaviors (RBs) in individuals with major neurocognitive disorders. Methods A descriptive holistic single case study design was employed in the context of an LTC community in Quebec, using semi-structured interviews and non-participatory observations of experienced care providers working with clients with RBs, photographing the physical environment, and accessing documents available on the LTC community’s public website. A thematic content analysis was used for data analysis. Results The findings generated insight into the importance of considering multiple components of the LTC community to apply the PCC approach for managing RBs, including a) creating a homelike environment, b) developing a therapeutic relationship with clients, c) engaging clients in meaningful activities, and d) empowering care providers by offering essential resources. Conclusions Applying and implementing the PCC approach within an LTC community to manage clients’ RBs is a long-term multi-dimensional process that requires a solid foundation. Clinical implications These findings highlight the importance of considering multiple factors relevant to persons, environments, and meaningful activities to apply the PCC approach within LTC communities to manage RBs.

Using interpersonal skills to manage challenging client behaviour

Widespread pandemic-related disruption has led to increasingly challenging client interactions. The British Veterinary Association found that 57% of veterinary staff surveyed in 2021 reported feeling intimidated by client behaviour during the previous year; a 10% increase from 2019. The psychological impact of consistently difficult or abusive interactions can be significant and contribute to the high incidences of stress, burnout, attrition and potentially suicide increasingly noted in the industry. This understanding further highlights the need to focus on developing individual self-care strategies and leaders offering appropriate support to their team. Historically, veterinary education has overlooked the importance of training in interpersonal skills, such as communication, conflict resolution and emotional intelligence. However, human and veterinary medicine is evolving with increasing recognition of the significance of communication skills training to help prevent and manage of challenging client behaviour. This may help to ensure practitioners are better prepared for the challenges that await them.

A decomposition analysis of microcredit welfare gaps in Ghana. A gender analysis

The literature is replete with studies suggesting that the microcredit market is expanding with varying degrees of impact on male and female clients. The paper investigates the extent to which differences in loan use behaviour and loan amount received contribute to differences in microcredit welfare impact among male and female clients. Using the sixth (2012/2013) and seventh (2016/2017) rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, and applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique with the two-staged recentred influence functions, we find that the welfare disparity in microcredit delivery is due to a lower inequality and poverty rate among female clients relative to their male counterparts. Additionally, we find that gender welfare gaps in microcredit delivery are powered extensively by differences in the size of loans received and the loan use behaviour of clients. The findings lend support for policy reassessment on gender in the provision of credit; to improve portfolio quality and reinforce the returns of microcredit access among clients.

Robert J. Kohlenberg (1937-2021).

Memorializes Robert (Bob) Kohlenberg (1937-2021). A preeminent clinical psychologist, Bob retired as a professor of psychology from the University of Washington (UW) in 2020 after a half century of service. From 1997 to 2004, Bob served as director of clinical training, a period during which the program received the Distinguished Program Award from the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Influenced by Ivar Lovaas and Irving Maltzman at UCLA, Bob's theoretical orientation was strongly behavioristic, and he remained a devoted Skinnerian during his entire career. In the mid-1980s, Bob's attention turned to the enterprise of psychotherapy. Based on the principle that client behaviors that occur in their "real world" interpersonal relationships will occur in the therapeutic relationship as well, Bob and his spouse, Mavis Tsai, developed a new operant-based treatment approach, functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), which focused on genuine in-the-moment interactions between therapist and client. The publication of their seminal 1991 book, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Creating Intense and Curative Therapeutic Relationships, heralded a major new phase in Bob's career trajectory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).