Are Kenyan water customers willing to pay a pro-poor sanitation surcharge? by Joyce Kisiangani, Clara MacLeod, C. Acey, D. Levine, Patrick Kipchirchir Ronoh, E. Makena, Guy Norman, Ranjiv Khush, C. Delaire, Rachel Peletz

“…Using a double-bound dichotomous choice method coupled with qualitative interviews, this study investigated willingness to pay for a pro-poor sanitation surcharge among customers of two Kenyan water utilities. 75% of respondents were willing to pay a surcharge, with just over half willing to pay up to 100 KES ($1 USD) per month. …”
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Improving self-supply water sources as a key to reach the water related SDG by Henk Holtslag, James McGill

“…Support Self-supply is not instead of the conventional subsidised Communal water supply but an additional approach with the advantage of the income generating effect of water at family level and families willing to invest. A range of new, innovative and low cost technologies have made Self-supply affordable, so where technically possible, it makes sense to stimulate Self-supply. …”
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Toward positive social change for lesbians and gay men: a human rights approach by Sonja J. Ellis

“…First, whilst respondents to the questionnaire support the general principle that a person's sexual orientation should not block that person's access to basic rights and freedoms, they are less willing to extend specific human rights to lesbians and gay men, especially social rights (e.g. right to marry, right to adopt children). …”
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Understanding householder behaviours through the lens of a human assistant metaphor to inform the design of the in-home IPA virtual agent by Andrew Pooley

“…Chapter 2 identifies the challenges presented within IPA research literature when studying their use within the home: (1) the lack of longitudinal enquiries documenting how in-home IPA use evolves; (2) the absence of considering meaning embedded within the home, when studying the use and usefulness of an in-home IPA virtual agent; and (3) the focus on interaction-level information, with the user experiences that these IPA virtual agents can provide being largely overlooked. …”
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Managerial risk-reducing incentives and social and exchange capital by Zhuang Zhang, Amon Chizema, Jing-Ming Kuo, Qingjing Zhang

“…This study investigates the impact of managerial risk-reducing incentives on the firm's social and exchange capital. Using CEO inside debt holdings to proxy for the incentives of risk-averse managers, we find that CEOs with more inside debt holdings are likely to invest more in building social capital, which targets broader society and potentially offers anti-risk protection advantages, to shield the value of their inside debt. …”
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Managing compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code: China's strategies and their implications by Tien-Chin Tan, Alan Bairner, Yu-Wen Chen

“…With the problems of doping in sport becoming more serious, the World Anti-Doping Code was drafted by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2003 and became effective one year later. Since its passage, the Code has been renewed four times, with the fourth and latest version promulgated in January 2015. …”
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Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results by Justin F Landy, Miaolei Liam Jia, Isabel L Ding, Domenico Viganola, Warren Tierney, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Charles R Ebersole, Quentin F Gronau, Alexander Ly, Don van den Bergh, Maarten Marsman, Koen Derks, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Andrew Proctor, Daniel M Bartels, Christopher W Bauman, William J Brady, Felix Cheung, Andrei Cimpian, Simone Dohle, M Brent Donnellan, Adam Hahn, Michael P Hall, William Jiménez-Leal, David J Johnson, Richard E Lucas, Benoît Monin, Andres Montealegre, Elizabeth Mullen, Jun Pang, Jennifer Ray, Diego A Reinero, Jesse Reynolds, Walter Sowden, Daniel Storage, Runkun Su, Christina M Tworek, Jay J Van Bavel, Daniel Walco, Julian Wills, Xiaobing Xu, Kai Chi Yam, Xiaoyu Yang, William A Cunningham, Martin Schweinsberg, Molly Urwitz, Matúš Adamkovič, Ravin Alaei, Casper J Albers, Aurélien Allard, Ian A Anderson, Michael R Andreychik, Peter Babinčák, Bradley J Baker, Gabriel Baník, Ernest Baskin, Jozef Bavolar, Ruud MWJ Berkers, Michał Białek, Joel Blanke, Johannes Breuer, Ambra Brizi, Stephanie EV Brown, Florian Brühlmann, Hendrik Bruns, Leigh Caldwell, Jean-François Campourcy, Eugene Y Chan, Yen-Ping Chang, Benjamin Y Cheung, Alycia Chin, Kit W Cho, Simon Columbus, Paul Conway, Conrad A Corretti, Adam W Craig, Paul G Curran, Alexander F Danvers, Ian GJ Dawson, Martin V Day, Erik Dietl, Johannes T Doerflinger, Alice Dominici, Vilius Dranseika, Peter A Edelsbrunner, John E Edlund, Matthew Fisher, Anna Fung, Oliver Genschow, Timo Gnambs, Matthew H Goldberg, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Andrew C Hafenbrack, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Andree Hartanto, Patrick R Heck, Joseph P Heffner, Joseph Hilgard, Felix Holzmeister, Oleksandr V Horchak, Tina S-T Huang, Joachim Hüffmeier, Sean Hughes, Ian Hussey, Roland Imhoff, Bastian Jaeger, Konrad Jamro, Samuel GB Johnson, Andrew Jones, Lucas Keller, Olga Kombeiz, Lacy E Krueger, Anthony Lantian, Justin P Laplante, Ljiljana B Lazarevic, Jonathan Leclerc, Nicole Legate, James M Leonhardt, Desmond W Leung, Carmel A Levitan, Hause Lin, Qinglan Liu, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Kenneth D Locke, Albert L Ly, Melanie MacEacheron, Christopher R Madan, Harry Manley, Silvia Mari, Marcel Martončik, Scott L McLean, Jonathon McPhetres, Brett G Mercier, Corinna Michels, Michael C Mullarkey, Erica D Musser, Ladislas Nalborczyk, Gustav Nilsonne, Nicholas G Otis, Sarah MG Otner, Philipp E Otto, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Francesco Pellegrini, Vitor MD Pereira, Hannah Perfecto, Gerit Pfuhl, Mark H Phillips, Ori Plonsky, Maura Pozzi, Danka B Purić, Brett Raymond-Barker, David E Redman, Caleb J Reynolds, Ivan Ropovik, Lukas Röseler, Janna K Ruessmann, William H Ryan, Nika Sablaturova, Kurt J Schuepfer, Astrid Schütz, Miroslav Sirota, Matthias Stefan, Eric L Stocks, Garrett L Strosser, Jordan W Suchow, Anna Szabelska, Kian Siong Tey, Leonid Tiokhin, Jais Troian, Till Utesch, Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Mark Verschoor, Bettina von Helversen, Pascal Wallisch, Sophia C Weissgerber, Aaron L Wichman, Jan K Woike, Iris Žeželj, Janis H Zickfeld, Yeonsin Ahn, Philippe F Blaettchen, Xi Kang, Yoo Jin Lee, Philip M Parker, Paul A Parker, Jamie S Song, May-Anne Very, Lynn Wong, Eric L Uhlmann

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A bridge too far: an analysis of WASH KAP study from four Indian states by Manbendra N. Ray, Ishaprasad Bhagwat, Asad Umar

“…In India though there has been improved WASH coverage in the last decade but yet only 35% of the population have access to drinking water within the premises and 600 million people continue to defecate in open. …”
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Consuming work and managing employability: students' work orientations and the process of contemporary job search by Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

“…ʻConsumption of workʼ was central to shaping studentsʼ work orientations and only few of them resisted the ʻcommon senseʼ. Those who made ʻalternativeʼ choices articulated doubt about these, with the challenge to employability as a key reason for it. …”
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Beyond water service coverage for slum dwellers: multiple water uses for livelihood enhancement by Charles Kanyesigye, Maria Nambiro, Ronald Kitakufe, John B. Otema, Ronald Mafunguro, Rose Kaggwa, Sam Kayaga, Julie Fisher, Susanna Goodall

“…Key findings were (i) piped water was predominantly used for productive uses; (ii) access to water services was still perceived a challenge for some residents; (iii) community groups and households interested in MUS activities require start-up funding; and (iv) stakeholder organisations were willing to work with NWSC to implement the MUS framework. …”
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'You are what you research': researcher partisanship and the sociology of the underdog by Karen Lumsden

“…Social researchers will inevitably ‘take sides’ whether or not they are willing to admit so. The discussion also touches upon the prevalence of media culture in ethnographic research and the dilemmas faced when making our research public at key moments.…”
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An exploration of the essential elements of community engagement in public libraries by Hui-Yun Sung

“…The discussion of the relationships between elements then identified two key underlying variable drivers (i.e. influence of authority and willingness to learn ) that had a fundamental impact on community engagement. …”
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Product service systems: A sustainable design strategy for SMEs in the textiles and leather sectors by Tracy Bhamra, Ricardo J. Hernandez-Pardo, Yaone Rapitsenyane, Rhoda Trimingham

“…Businesses, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs), are key actors in the drive toward sustainability. Product Service Systems (PSS) are an alternative for SMEs willing to make the transition towards more sustainable operations, but they remain an unknown quantity for many companies. …”
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Geographies for play in austere times by John H. McKendrick, Peter Kraftl, Sarah Mills, Stefanie Gregorius, Grace Sykes

“…Appraising the changing landscape of play in the UK, reviews six key themes that emerge – re-fuelling longstanding tensions within playwork; organisational legacy of the investment years; broad acceptance of the wider value of play in society; the need to develop a critical play intelligence within the sector; the reconfiguration of play geographies and the impact of play provision on local play cultures; and the need for a much more central focus on play cultures in our enquiry. …”
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Willingness-to-pay surveys - a streamlined approach: Guidance notes for small town water services by Alison Wedgwood, Kevin Sansom

“…The urban water sector in low- and middle-income countries requires good quality data to justify future investment proposals; develop a better understanding of user perceptions and preferences; support the selection of preferred service options; and to set out the scope for future tariff increases. CVM surveys are a reliable means of generating such valuable information. …”
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Roles and institutional arrangements for economic regulation of urban water services in sub-Saharan Africa by Dennis D. Mwanza

“…Urban water service delivery mainly supplied by state owned utilities is constrained due to many factors one of which is related to insufficient or lack of a clear economic regulatory framework. …”
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Valuing air transportation and sustainability from a public perspective: evidence from the United Kingdom and the United States by Tim Ryley, Jonathan Burchell, Lisa Davison

“…This empirical paper is based on two large survey data sets, one from the East Midlands region of the United Kingdom and one from the East Coast of the United States. …”
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Norms, attitudes and gender perspectives in ecological sanitation by Agnes Mugure, Benedict M. Mutua

“…Face to face interviews among 231 household respondents using a semi structured questionnaire, field observations, focused group discussions and key informant interviews were performed. Most of the respondents reported that the ecosan toilets are a viable option due to congested housing pattern, desire to own a toilet (for those who never had a toilet before), geohydrological conditions, improved privacy, and convenience among other factors. …”
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How service quality and outcome confidence drive pre-outcome word-of-mouth by Kemefasu Ifie, Antonis Simintiras, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Vasileia Mavridou

“…However, the study also finds that outcome confidence compensates for process quality such that the effect of process quality diminishes when outcome confidence is high. The key managerial implication of the study’s finding is that managers can tactically use outcome confidence to compensate for low levels of process or employee service quality.…”
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Investigating the market for cultivated meat as pet food: A survey analysis by Alice Oven, Barbara Yoxon, Josh Milburn

“…Using survey data from 729 respondents, we analyzed consumers’ willingness to feed cultivated meat to companion animals, particularly with reference to their own current dietary practices, and their own willingness to eat cultivated meat. …”
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Cometh the 'hour of Europe', cometh the institutions?: coherence and effectiveness of the EU's common foreign and security policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991-2006) by Ana E. Juncos Garcia

“…Finally, CFSP institutionalisation is seen as having had an impact on the EU's international role moving it from a civilian to a normative power, willing to resort to military instruments when necessary.…”
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Design, dirt and disposal: influences on the maintenance of vacuum cleaners by Luke Harmer, T. Cooper, T. Fisher, G. Salvia, C. Barr

“…Those willing to do ‘a lot more’ to help the environment were significantly more likely to want to ‘keep the floors in my home spotlessly clean’ and significantly more likely to indicate that they preferred their vacuum cleaner to look new. …”
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Energy efficiency refurbishment of UK owner-occupied homes: the householders’ perspective by Kate Simpson

“…Owner-occupiers represent 63.1% of UK households (ONS, 2016); a key group to focus attention on as a means to increase domestic energy efficiency rates (Risholt et al, 2013). …”
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Investigating requirements for true inclusivity in playgrounds by Hannah Moore

“…Through discussion groups and interviews a number of important themes were identified regarding both equipment and social issues and from these a set of basic ergonomic guidelines was created. Key factors were knowing equipment was designed for adult sizes and weights, and being in a supervised and controlled environment. …”
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Towards internet voting in the state of Qatar by Jassim Khalid Al-Hamar

“…The technology for Internet voting now exists or can be developed, but are the people of Qatar willing to take part in Internet voting for national elections?. …”
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Balancing the complexity of patient falls: implementing quality improvement and human factors/ergonomics and systems engineering strategies in healthcare by Laurie Wolf

“…Aim #1: Understand the advantages and disadvantages of QI methodologies (Lean and Six Sigma) and HFE when applied to fall prevention in the acute care setting: o Evaluate the contribution of QI and HFE to fall prevention with a focus on reducing falls with serious injury. o Use studies with different methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) to develop and implement an intervention with the goal of decreasing total falls and falls with injury. o Compare methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma and HFE) to understand their benefits and limitations. …”
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Unbundling tenure issues for urban sanitation development by Pippa Scott

“…The third finding is that those who are unwilling to invest may be willing to pay (and do) for sanitation services. This places a greater emphasis on downstream and operational sanitation activities (i.e. tenure neutral options). …”
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Demand for plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya and Tanzania by Patrick Kipchirchir Ronoh, J. Kones, Clara MacLeod, C. Delaire, Rachel Peletz, Joyce Kisiangani, J. Luoto, Ranjiv Khush

“…To measure consumer demand for plastic slabs in rural areas, we conducted i) a voucher-based real-money sales trial in Tanzania in 2015 (n=569) and ii) a real-money auction in Kenya in 2017 (n=322). …”
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Development of an activity-based service design model for improving older travellers' inclusion in future Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) by Yuanjun Li

“…A qualitative study of MaaS service providers (Chapter 5) shows that the current design of MaaS is based on Service-Oriented Logic (SOL), with which the service providers stand at a higher position than the users to define their needs and set up services for management purposes. The study used the three-level structure of Multi-level Service Design (MSD) to decompose the current MaaS system, refine the general user experience as a framework and the key actors with their responsibilities (e.g. …”
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Willingness to adhere to current UK low-risk alcohol guidelines to potentially reduce dementia risk: A national survey of people aged 50 and over by Deborah Oliveira, Katy A. Jones, Reuben Ogollah, Semanur Ozupek, Eef Hogervorst, Martin Orrell

“…People who were obese (OR 0.72; CI 0.54-0.95), those who drank alcohol above limits (OR 0.13; CI 0.11-0.16), and those who were smokers (OR 0.56; CI 0.36-0.88) were less willing to adhere to current guidelines. CONCLUSION: Men and people with more lifestyle risk factors for common chronic diseases (e.g., smoking, obesity, and excess alcohol consumption) are less willing to adhere to current alcohol low-risk guidelines to reduce dementia risk.…”
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Deriving and validating performance indicators for safety mobility for older road users in urban areas by Lucy Rackliff

“…Performance Indicators are objective, auditable parameters, which when used as a set can provide additional information to decision-makers about the operation of the transport system. …”
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Girls and mathematics by Oonagh M. Gormley

“…I examine the notion of femininity in some detail and come to the conclusion that it is a limiting and power-sapping ideal constructed largely by men. My first hypothesis is that women are willing to conform to the feminine stereotype because the crossing of sex-boundaries is abhorred by our society. …”
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Persuasive digital health technologies for lifestyle behaviour change by Maxine E. Whelan

“…The remaining three studies examined health messages about diet (k=2) and physical activity (k=1). Areas of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala were most commonly activated with increased activation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex predicting subsequent behaviour (e.g. smoking cessation). …”
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Understanding operator engagement in safety-critical Chinese motorway traffic control rooms [Redacted] by Linyi Jin

“…Because engagement is beneficial for improving operator performance and being willing to go the extra mile at work (e.g., doing additional work), which is very crucial to respond to unexpected risks in safety-critical control rooms. …”
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Managing knowledge for through life capability by Sofia Ahlberg Pilfold

“…This is complicated further by the observation that in a decade one can expect a significant proportion of the manpower involved in a capability will have changed. …”
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The tallest person by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…The foundation or base is made up of women and men and other local people, local governments. Sometimes this can be unstable if the achievers are not willing to share their experience. …”
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Improving occupational health risk management in SMEs: the role of major projects - Research report by Wendy Jones, Alistair Gibb, Phillip D. Bust

“…It is therefore important that the clients on such projects: • Set and enforce consistently high standards, to expose the supply chain and its workforce to good practices and encourage them to rise to these expectations • Set expectations for the provision of health assessments, so that companies are motivated and supported to put mechanisms in place • Make such expectations very clear at the tender stage to ensure that work is priced and planned appropriately • Employ suitable occupational health specialists such as OH advisers and occupational hygienists to raise standards and support and educate managers and OSH practitioners • Actively develop knowledge in the supply chain by sharing the expertise of in-house specialists • Manage the interactions between contractors to minimise worker exposures from trades other than their own Additionally, industry wide commitment is required relating to: • Consistency within the industry, and ensuring that prequalification and accreditation schemes set high standards for health alongside those for safety • Training for managers, supervisors and OSH professionals to ensure they are as knowledgeable about health as they are about safety • Improved materials for workforce training so that they fully understand the impact of work related ill-health and know how to avoid it • Increased education regarding OH/medical obligations so that senior managers and others in small companies understand what sensitive data they should and should not collect • Processes for managing OH data at an industry level to ensure that records can follow a worker from one project or employer to another, and that all are working to the same minimum standard; such a process could then operate alongside the current requirement for each worker to have a CSCS card. • Increasing the availability of specialist resource such as OH advisers, OH physicians and occupational hygienists, as there is a shortage of all disciplines across the UK Ongoing efforts will be required to achieve widespread change. …”
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Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III): a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial by Daniel Freeman, Bao Sheng Loe, Ly-Mee Yu, Jason Freeman, Andrew Chadwick, Cristian Vaccari, Milensu Shanyinde, Victoria Harris, Felicity Waite, Laina Rosebrock, Ariane Petit, Samantha Vanderslott, Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Larkin, Stefania Innocenti, Andrew J Pollard, Helen McShane, Sinéad Lambe

“…Vaccine hesitancy had reduced from 26·9% the previous year to 16·9%, so recruitment was extended to Feb 18 to recruit 3841 additional vaccine-hesitant adults. 12463 (66·1%) participants were classified as willing, 2932 (15·6%) as doubtful, and 3460 (18·4%) as strongly hesitant (ie, report that they will avoid being vaccinated for as long as possible or will never get vaccinated). …”
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User expectations of partial driving automation capabilities and their effect on information design preferences in the vehicle by Arun Ulahannan, Rebecca Cain, Simon Thompson, Lee Skrypchuk, Alex Mouzakitis, Paul Jennings, Stewart Birrell

“…LIP drivers did not want detailed information about the vehicle presented to them, but the definition of partial automation means that this kind of information is required for safe use. …”
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