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Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

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Can You Be Persuaded? Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Persuasion

Persuasive technologies are growing in popularity and many designers create systems which intentionally change users attitudes or behaviors. This study shows that peoples individual differences in susceptibility to persuasion, as implemented using the six persuasion principles proposed by Cialdini [2], relates to their compliance to a persuasive request which is accompanied by a persuasive cue....

Cross-cultural differences in psychiatric nurses' attitudes to inpatient aggression.

Little is currently known about the attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward patient aggression, particularly from an international perspective. Attitudes toward patient aggression of psychiatric nurses from five European countries were investigated using a recently developed and tested attitude scale. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 1,769 student nurses and psychiatric nurses. R...

Gesturing to Promote Higher-Order Thinking: Cross-Cultural Differences

Cross-cultural differences in teachers’ gestures during instructional analogies were examined in United States, Hong Kong, and Japanese mathematics classrooms. Teachers in all three regions frequently made analogies, but patterns of gestures differed in consequential ways. All teachers used gestures in a high proportion of the analogies, but teachers in the higher achieving regions, Hong Kong a...