Experiencing Unfair Commercial Practices: An Introduction

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Chest X-ray: an unfair screening tool.

BACKGROUND Chest radiography is considered as the sole screening tool for chest pathologies as prerequisite for overseas employment during their medical examinations. The aim was to evaluate the role of CXR as a screening tool in the diagnosis of different lung pathologies in general and TB in particular. METHODS In this descriptive case series, reports of 63,648 Pakistani candidates, who too...

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

An Introduction to Good Practices in Cognitive Modeling

Cognitive modeling can provide important insights into the underlying causes of behavior, but the validity of those insights rests on careful model development and checking. We provide guidelines on five important aspects of the practice of cognitive modeling: parameter recovery, testing selective influence of experimental manipulations on model parameters, quantifying uncertainty in parameter ...

From health behaviours to health practices: an introduction.

The concept of health behaviour has become ubiquitous in health-related research and intervention studies, as well as among policymakers. Developed from psychology, it is based on a number of key underlying assumptions that enable it to be integrated in an existing health research paradigm. However, by conceiving individual health behaviour as discrete, stable, homogeneous and measurable, many ...