You Won't Know If You Don't Ask

You won't know if you don't ask: discrepancy and ambivalence in attitudes toward behavior change.

BACKGROUND Behavior change is challenging following an acute cardiac event, and commonly, individuals are ambivalent. AIM The objective of this study was to describe the experience of behavior change of survivors of an acute cardiac event. METHOD Semistructured interviews were undertaken with 25 participants attending 3 cardiac rehabilitation programs. An inductive process of qualitative th...

How do you know if you ran through a wall?

M. Pospelov, 2 S. Pustelny, 4, ∗ M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 1A1, Canada Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland Department of Physics, University of California at B...

Tagging accurately - Don't guess if you know

We discuss combining knowledge-based (or rule-based) and statistical part-of-speech taggers. We use two mature taggers, ENGCG and Xerox Tagger, to independently tag the same text and combine the results to produce a fully disambiguated text. In a 27000 word test sample taken from a previously unseen corpus we achieve 98.5 % accuracy. This paper presents the data in detail. We describe the probl...

Do you know what you don't know?

Te contaria mi vida: I would tell you my life, if only you would ask.

Universal screening for domestic violence is recommended in many health care settings. This qualitative study was undertaken to explore the thoughts and feelings of Mexican American women regarding being asked questions about domestic violence by a health care provider. We wanted to further explore what characteristics about a nurse, or other health care provider, would give a woman confianza, ...