Attitude - Science topic

Objective: family-centered care during invasive procedures has been endorsed by many professional health care organizations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the health professionals' attitudes towards parental presence during their child's invasive procedure. Method: pediatric healthcare providers (divided in professional categories and ra...

What should the Buddhist attitude be to rebirth if it is believed to be inconsistent with current science? This chapter critically engages forms of Buddhist agnosticism that adopt a position of uncertainty about rebirth but nevertheless recommend ‘behaving as if’ it were true. What does it mean to behave as if rebirth were true, and are Buddhist ag...

Objective: To examine cognitive, relational, and social predictors of interest in and timing preference for cancer predisposition testing (CPT) and expanded carrier screening (ECS) offered in routine gynecologic care for women of reproductive age. Methods: Women between 20 and 35 years old who were currently pregnant or had a prior pregnancy (N...

Dear Colleagues, Obtaining high-quality gluten-free (GF) bakery products and pasta remains a major challenge with increasing demand due to the growing number of gluten-intolerant and gluten-tolerant individuals following a GF diet. Currently, important issues have been addressed, such as the improvement of GF products sensory and nutritional quali...

Organizational culture continues to be a decisive factor in the success of hospitality firms. Drawing from the theory of work adjustment, this study focuses on hospitality organizational culture and examines its impacts on hospitality employees' job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviors, service recovery performance, and intention to l...

Conversational AI agents like ChatGPT have gained considerable attention in recent years, with potential implications across various domains. However, there is a gap in understanding the prevailing opinions, topics, and concerns of the public and research communities regarding these technologies. This study conducts a semi-automated analysis of ove...

In this study, we propose an interdisciplinary activity combining archaeology with mathematical proving developed during a five-iterations design-based research (DBR). The activity is aimed to bring students to the enactment of subversive critical thinking (SCT)-a radical type of critical thinking that consists of (i) opposition to an expert's opin...

This study aims to describe women's resistance from a gender and social perspective in the novel Women by Maman Suherman. This qualitative research focuses on the post-feminism theory of Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff. The results of the research show that institutions and values in modern society are seen as weak and old-fashioned because the...

The growing attention to artificial intelligence-based applications has led to research interest in explainability issues. This emerging research attention on explainable AI (XAI) advocates the need to investigate end user-centric explainable AI. Thus, this study aims to investigate user-centric explainable AI and considered recommendation systems...

Lean Service 5.0 is an innovative concept for developing and managing smart services. It represents the new trends in managing technologies and their connection to people. It impacts the value co-creation of services since it underpins the sociotechnical system integration (people, process, and technology). In this LAB, we propose an overview of th...

The human being is educated throughout life. Therefore, the education of character is a very long and complex process that is performed in the family, in school, and in the social environment where the individual's relationship with society is intertwined. The formation of a child's character is a long road full of challenges. During this path, chi...

This study aims to evaluate the role of gratifications sought from online reviews and perceptions about reviewers in affecting the behavioural intentions (continuance and purchase intentions) in the B2C fashion e-commerce context, using a combination of uses and gratification and source credibility theories. Using a cross-sectional survey of 529 cu...

The present paper shares a learning and teaching experience built on a project-based methodology using Instagram accounts to improve technical vocabulary in the ESP classroom. Participants were 75 undergraduate sports science students who attended our English for Professional and Academic Communication ESP course at the Universidad Politécnica de M...

Knowledge of crime prevention strategy and general satisfaction with personal safety shows a weak, statistically significant positive correlation. Thus, awareness of crime prevention significantly influences the safety perception, level of worry, and satisfaction with personal safety. ABSTRACT As empirical studies have progressed, various metrics a...

استهدف البحث تحديد درجة معرفة المبحوثين بالتوصيات الإرشادية الإروائية، وتحديد درجة قيام الإرشاد الزراعى بتوعية المبحوثين, ودرجة إستفادة المبحوثين من دور الإرشاد الزراعى فى عملية التوعية, وتحديد العلاقة بين المتغيرات المستقلة للمبحوثين وبين درجة معرفتهم بالتوصيات الإرشادية الإروائية, وأجري البحث على عينة من الزراع بلغت 381 مبحوثاً وجمعت البيانات الن...

We know today that numerous factors play a significant role as causes of cancer. Because of this, a doctor’s opinion alone cannot be used to classify cancer. Intelligent algorithms providing medical assistance are therefore necessary. In addition, many researchers have adopted them for estimating the likelihood of patient survival, and others have...

Indian medical and engineering students had a good level of knowledge and positive attitudes toward COVID-19. Although medical students scored higher in knowledge and attitude, the practice showed no difference. The practice scores were the lowest among the three parameters. This reaffirms the need for more strategic planning to ensure good practic...

La creación de relatos gamificados con Realidad Aumentada (RA) ha constituido el núcleo del proyecto de innovación docente NAGARA, destinado a la formación competencial de los futuros maestros de Educación Infantil. El objetivo de la investigación se centra en analizar la percepción del alumnado participante respecto a las oportunidades que esta ex...

Z Bu araştırmanın amacı, okuma yazma öğretiminde dik temel yazı kullanımını incelemektir. Araştırmada, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden görüşme tekniği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini 2017-2018 eğitim-öğretim yılı içerisinde Diyarbakır ilinde Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı'na bağlı ilkokullarda görev yapmakta olan birinci sınıf öğretmenleri ile birinci...

Explaining what emotions or attitudes it is rational for humans to have toward our own deaths and toward their mortality has been a central task within most philosophical traditions. This article critically examines the rationality of five emotions or attitudes that might be taken toward death: fear, insofar as death can harm us by reducing our ove...

En México, el Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF) (s.f) se autodefine como el órgano encargado de resolver los diferentes problemas que puedan existir en materia electoral, de igual manera se encarga de proteger los derechos político-electorales de los ciudadanos e impartir justicia en el ámbito electoral. En marzo del añ...

تندرج هذه الدّراسة ضمن النقد الروائي ولكن من منظور استشراقيّ لصاحبها المستشرق الأمريكي ذي الأصول البريطانية روجر آلن وذلك من خلال كتابه (الرواية العربية مقدمة تاريخية ونقدية)؛ إذْ تناول بالتحليل و النقد نشأة الرواية العربية منذ قرنين من الزمن إلى غاية نهاية القرن الماضي مع تتويج نجيب محفوظ بجائزة نوبل للآداب عام1988 تعرّض فيها الباحث إلى البدايات ا...

El presente trabajo analiza cómo se desarrolla la atenuación pragmática en una serie de conversaciones coloquiales de Tegucigalpa, Honduras. En concreto, este artículo se propone establecer, por un lado, cuáles son los mecanismos verbales y no verbales que se han empleado con fines atenuantes, y, por otro, con qué fines sociales se usan estos recur...

In this brief note, the researcher analyzes four articles. In the opinion of the researcher, if you are doing research in the field of mathematics education, you can enhance your insight by reading the summaries based on these articles before entering the field of research. This short research note not only provides a summary of these articles. Alo...

The ranking approach is one of the most used techniques in solving the fuzzy optimization problems. This article defines a novel ranking function to compare the trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFNs).The fuzzy linear programming problem (FLPP) and fuzzy data envelopment analysis (FDEA) models are converted into its corresponding crisp LP problem and cri...

More than seven million people fled Venezuela during the first two decades of the 21st century. With the spread of Covid-19, the frontiers were closed, and the international emigration of the population stopped. Today, at the end of the pandemic, the country is trying to build a new way of doing things. Even more, the Venezuelan government h...

This study uses a real crisis with a fictitious name to protect real company reputation, to conduct an online survey to collage 230 participants' opinions on examining the relationship between social media, crisis responsibility, trust, and behavioral intentions of stakeholders in crisis communication. The finding proposes that trust positively aff...

El proyecto innovador Go Green! busca integrar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) relacionados con el medioambiente en la Educación Superior. Concretamente, la intervención formativa se implementó en los grados de Educación y Comunicación. Metodología: la investigación derivada adoptó una metodología mixta: a) cuantitativa, en tanto estud...

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the opinion of university students about the identification or nonidentification of gamete donation and the probability of donation according to the different regimes. Methods This was a cross-sectional observational study based on an online anonymous survey including questions about sociodemographic data, reason...

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a commonly recognized vestibular disorder which is characterized by brief periods of vertigo and a characteristic nystagmus. The nystagmus is often difficult to appreciate with naked eyes and hence video oculography is a helpful tool. Dizziness Handicap Inventory is an objective way to assess the impac...

Resumen Este escrito pretende introducir al lector a una opinión de la influencia que tuvieron las ciencias de la tecnología en el derecho y en la vida humana como tal durante la época de la conocida pandemia, dando a conocer como afrontó el gobierno local la situación devastadora en el ámbito jurídico, cuales fueron las consecuencias de dichas med...

The thoughts of university youth, which is the most important fragment of a country especially in terms of social intellectuals, on democracy will provide important information about democracy education and tendencies. In our study, we aimed to see the basic democracy perceptions of university students in Türkiye. Four hundred eighty-six (486) univ...

Background. Surveys on Public Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (PKAP) have been conducted in various countries with respondents from the public as well as health workers. Measuring the knowledge of the public about COVID-19 is very important to determine the knowledge gap among the public and also as an evaluation of the preventive efforts for COV...

In COVID's immediate wake, the 2020 death toll from a different enemy of the public's health - gun violence - ticked up by 15 percent in the United States from the previous year. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Caniglia v. Strom that will allow people who have recently threatened suicide - with a gun - to keep unsecured guns...

Background. Increasing the frequency of eating out in restaurants contributes to an increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases. The quality of restaurant dishes depends on the chef’s ability to process delicious food and the chef’s understanding of nutrition in healthy food processing. Nutritional knowledge and attitudes towards nutrit...

Investigating and exploring factors influencing the continued usage and acceptance of mobile money transaction services in Ghana. The study employed the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with 406 mobile money users from Ghana's Savannah and Bono regions. According to the study, perceived risk perceived cost, social influence, perceived usefulness a...

The objective of this study was to test the simultaneous influence of employees' personal values and dark personality traits on their attitude toward relying on sources of guidance when dealing with different events at work. Employees from an American university filled out a paper-and-pencil questionnaire comprised of three previously-validated sca...

Nudges are widely employed tools within organizations, but they are often criticized for harming autonomy and for being ineffective. We assess these two criticisms simultaneously: can nudges be both autonomy-preserving and effective in changing behavior? We developed three nudges – an opinion leader nudge, a rule-of-thumb and self-nudges – to reduc...

Speech quality assessment is a problem for every researcher working on models that produce or process speech. Human subjective ratings, the gold standard in speech quality assessment, are expensive and time-consuming to acquire in a quantity that is sufficient to get reliable data, while automated objective metrics show a low correlation with gold...

Messaging platforms are applications, generally mediated by an app, desktop program or the web, mainly used for synchronous communication among users. As such, they have been widely adopted officially by higher education establishments, after little or no study of their impact and perception by the teachers. We think that the introduction of these...

Para una Institución de Educación Superior (IES), es importante conocer la opinión de sus públicos de interés, dado que esto permite la retroalimentación y mejora de los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Son los individuos que se encuentran próximos a graduarse, el público de interés en donde se puede alcanzar con más facilidad una evaluación obje...

Christopher Alexander explored the world of built structures. He longed for buildings and spaces that touched and triggered our own psychological and spiritual structure. From his examples of spaces we experience as alive he distilled his Fifteen Properties: aspects and qualities in buildings that quicken us. As architects, we want to learn how we...

With the development of the cloud computing era, the decision-making environment and algorithm models have become increasingly complex, and traditional decision-making methods have been unable to meet the needs of large group decision-making (LGDM) problems. Firstly, in order to solve this problem, the concept of double hierarchy interval hesitant...

As brand activism continues to move up the corporate agenda, a more comprehensive understanding of its effects is needed. This paper contributes to the evolving research by investigating moral emotions (i.e. other-praising and other-condemning emotions) as mediating factors and consumer-brand identification (CBI) as a moderator that shape consumer...

Finland is among the most advanced welfare states in the world. However, many surveys show that Finns are worried about the state of the Finnish welfare state and are experiencing various inequalities. This study argues that contrary to earlier studies, one can claim that the Finnish welfare state has a strong legitimacy and Finns think of their so...

Introduction. Assessment of clinical competence is a significant part of the training for young occupational therapists (OTs). Objective and systematic assessment allows both supervisors and trainees to be aware of the training objectives and monitor the progress. The direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) is a work-based assessment to eval...

Two of the main factors shaping an individual’s opinion are social coordination and personal preferences, or personal biases. To understand the role of those and that of the topology of the network of interactions, we study an extension of the voter model proposed by Masuda and Redner (2011), where the agents are divided into two populations with o...

Annotating data via crowdsourcing is time-consuming and expensive. Owing to these costs, dataset creators often have each annotator label only a small subset of the data. This leads to sparse datasets with examples that are marked by few annotators; if an annotator is not selected to label an example, their opinion regarding it is lost. This is esp...

An important aspect of developing LLMs that interact with humans is to align models' behavior to their users. It is possible to prompt an LLM into behaving as a certain persona, especially a user group or ideological persona the model captured during its pertaining stage. But, how to best align an LLM with a specific user and not a demographic or i...

Opinion statement There are over 10,000 mental health and wellness apps on the market. Apps offer the opportunity to increase access to mental health care. However, with many apps to choose from and an app landscape that is largely unregulated, it can be difficult to incorporate this technology into clinical practice. The first step towards achievi...

This work aims to analyze and identify the attributes present in Airbnb Experiences. For this, it considered the seven attributes of Memorable Tourism Experiences (MTE) proposed by Kim & Ritchie (2014): hedonism, refreshment, meaningfulness, novelty, local culture, knowledge, and involvement. With a qualitative and quantitative approach, the method...

This opinion piece was submitted as a contribution of evidence for UK Environmental Audit Committee inquiry - indoor & outdoor air quality: The evidence

Purpose Cancer therapy is essential and lifesaving; however, it can have short- and long-term consequences on patients’ health. Up to 87% of cancer patients report changes in taste function, yet patients report a lack of support from clinicians regarding their experience with taste loss during and following treatment. Thus, the objective of this st...

Green and blue infrastructure (GBI) is increasingly popular in international literature and cultural debates. Indeed, international opinion agrees that GBI is a strategic planning and design tool to face current and upcoming societal challenges. However, goals and practical applications are not fixed and differ based on disciplinary approaches and...

El artículo analiza la representación de la relación médico-paciente en artículos publicados en el periódico ABC y explora la producción de significados de género del encuentro terapéutico durante los años ochenta, una etapa de renovación y cambios estructurales en la asistencia sanitaria española. El análisis histórico del discurso periodístico en...

The adoption of the active learning paradigm presents a series of challenges and uncertainties. However, its adoption may result in better academic results and a more engaging attitude towards learning. In this sense, this paper presents a case scenario in which such a change of paradigm has been deployed, where escape rooms have been introduced as...

CAPTCHA is a graphical password scheme used for a user access authentication. It is mainly used for a security purpose to avoid the spyware attacks from website also to prevent bots from overrunning sites with spam, fraudulent registrations, fake sweepstakes entries, and other nefarious things. CAPTCHA is based on the image as a graphical password...

Introduction: Inadequate knowledge, negative attitude, poor perception, and poor health seeking-behaviour on the part of the workers are some of the problems resulting in health issues that are associated with occupational hazards. Hence, this study investigated the knowledge, attitude, perception and health-seeking behaviour regarding occupational...

This study looked at public reactions by analyzing comments posted to Facebook regarding the movement for freedom in Iran and the protests that erupted after the death of an Iranian woman. A content analysis of 60 comments revealed that between November 9 to November 16 of 2022, four prevalent themes emerged. These themes included: fear, women, sup...

En contabilidad, un activo es un recurso que se obtiene para que este produzca beneficios futuros, partiendo de esta concepción, las especies arbóreas (árboles) bajo la tipificación de activos son los más valiosos del medio ambiente. Por lo tanto, se desea dar respuesta a la pregunta: ¿Cuáles son las alternativas de reconocimiento contable para las...

Language is God’s special gift to mankind. Without language, human civilization, as we now know it, would have remained impossible. It is a carrier of civilization and culture, as human thoughts and philosophy are conveyed from one generation to the other through the medium of language. However, just like living things, languages die. Language deat...

RESUMO: Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, as preocupações com as consequências das armas químicas e com os impactos ambientais dos avanços científicos e tecnológicos levaram ao surgimento do movimento CTS, que culminou em importantes pesquisas sobre o ensino de ciências, em geral, e o ensino de química, em particular. Já são décadas de uma vasta produ...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India launched flagship programme "Mission Indradhanush" in December 2014 and further in 2017 launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush aimedat fully immunizing more than 90 per cent of new-borns by 2020. A study was conducted in Gurgram District of Haryana to assess process adopted and opini...

The aim of the study was to investigate a perceived severity of religious intolerance, and reasons behind it, among different religious groups in Pakistan. A questionnaire measuring religious intolerance was completed by 199 university students (females M = 23.8 yrs, SD 5.3, and males M = 24.6 yrs, SD 5.6) from four religious groups: Sunni, Shia, A...

La educación financiera involucra varias actividades diarias, promueve la salud financiera y la calidad de vida. Se compone de conocimiento, actitud y comportamiento financiero. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo identificar y analizar la alfabetización financiera de los empleados de una de las Cooperativas de Salud Unimed ubicadas en el sur de...

This survey analyzed the quality of the PDF documents on online repositories in Switzerland, examining their accessibility for people with visual impairments. Two minimal accessibility features were analyzed: the PDFs had to have tags and a hierarchical heading structure. The survey also included interviews with the managers or heads of multiple Sw...

Nowadays demands on scientific literacy consider nature of engineering as crucial, introducing the scientific and ontological foundations of engineering. As a result, this study was conducted to examine the students' views on nature of engineering at the Materials Science and Engineering department at University of Ioannina, through the views of fi...

Considerable advancements have been made to tackle the misrepresentation of information derived from reference articles in the domains of fact-checking and faithful summarization. However, an unaddressed aspect remains - the identification of social media posts that manipulate information within associated news articles. This task presents a signif...

"Chapter III. Cannabis, Creativity, and Cognitive Liberty" delivers much needed conceptual groundwork and an evaluation of the empirical research so far to explore how a cannabis high can affect creative activities. It argues that the few studies concerning this topic based on the concept of divergent thinking are flawed in their construction and o...

Una única causa integral y sine qua non de todos los cánceres. Resumen: Partiendo de una nueva perspectiva, nos hemos remontado a los inicios de la investigación metabólica del cáncer para crecer desde sus raíces. Desde los tiempos de Otto Warburg, el campo de la investigación del cáncer ha ido aprendiendo progresivamente la importancia fundamental...

La nueva visión de la educación del siglo XXI, afectó a un conjunto de variables internas y externas que exigen cambios significativos. Los adelantos económicos, sociales, políticos, culturales y tecnológicos de las naciones han concebido nuevos retos para el sistema educativo ecuatoriano, para responder con éxito a las demandas de una sociedad cad...

Pour une mise en ligne sur Épisciences. In considering how to propose a new reading of the writing of Sorana Gurian (1913-1956), a French- and Romanian-language Jewish writer, I will refer to some of her forty-one unpublished texts, including thirty-seven poems and four prose texts, preserved in manuscript or typescript form. These documents have n...

We study the coevolutionary dynamics of network topology and social complex contagion using a threshold cascade model. Our coevolving threshold model incorporates two mechanisms: the threshold mechanism for the spreading of a minority state such as a new opinion, idea, or innovation and the network plasticity implemented as rewiring of links to cut...

Positive priming encourages adult immigrant students to become more involved in their learning activities and increases their chances of success in their host society. The use of priming effects in teaching adult immigrants, however, is not sufficiently explored in the educational literature. This article therefore fills this gap by presenting a pe...

Equality between gender and sustainability is deeply connected and one of the major areas that are getting international attention as gender inequality exists not only outside the household but also dwellswithin the household. Principle 20 of the "Rio Declaration" in 1992 identifies women"s participation as an essential element in sustainable devel...

Social network plays an important role in college students’ life. The greater the social network support they have, the more adequate social network resources they get, and the stronger their ability to cope with the challenges of study and life is. Existing studies have overemphasized the influence of social environment on college students' academ...

This work addresses the objective prediction of human uncorrected decimal visual acuity, an unsolved challenge due to the contribution of both physical and neural factors. An alternative approach to assess the image quality of the human visual system can be addressed from the image and video processing perspective. Human tolerance to image degradat...