Understanding risk perception in travellers

Rabies risk among travellers.

Dengue – The Underestimated Risk in Travellers

In recent decades, the incidence, distribution and clinical severity of dengue have increased dramatically in most tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. As a consequence, and due to the expanding international tourism, health care providers in European travel clinics are more and more confronted with dengue, reflecting its global impact. Based on data of the European Network on Imported Inf...

Risk of rabies exposure among travellers.

BACKGROUND In recent years, requests for rabies immunoglobulin have increased at Amsterdam's Academic Medical Center's travel clinic. Travellers who received rabies pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) before travel departure have immunological memory that can quickly be activated by timely booster vaccinations after possible exposure to rabies. PrEP alleviates the need for costly and scarcely avail...

AIDS Risk Perception and its related factors in Women with High-Risk Behaviors in Iran

Background & aim: AIDS is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. Perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to AIDS. Women constitute more than half of the HIV patients, and the rate of female sex workers with AIDS is more than the rest of female population. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate AIDS risk perception and its related f...

Understanding factors in emotion perception

Emotion in speech is an important and challenging research area. Addition or understanding of emotions from speech is challenging. But an equally difficult task is to identify the intended emotion from an audio or speech. Understanding emotions is important not only in itself as a research area, but also, for adding emotions to synthesized speech. Evaluating synthesized speech with emotions can...