Between 1996 and 2002 Mortality published 11 papers which address gender issues. Some make women their focus, others address the relationships between the genders, or make comparisons between them. Some adopt an explicitly feminist perspective; others simply take gender as a variable. Alongside ‘gender’, they address its cross-cutting relationship with age, race or social class. They might seem...

Introduction This paper describes the ongoing project Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education. The first section of the paper presents the background to this study while the second section describes the pilot study carried out in April 2008 and outlines the preliminary findings. The main study will be carried out in Autumn 2008. This study is part of a larger project in the south-east o...

BACKGROUND China is facing an emerging epidemic of syphilis, and the cities in south China are most affected. Knowledge is a key factor in the prevention of syphilis infection, however, little is reported about how much people know about syphilis. This study was aimed at assessing peoples' awareness status in a city located in south China. METHODS Six populations were recruited for this study...

this study aimed to evaluate the radiation safety condition and the level of radiation-awareness amongst staff and patients in 18 hospitals of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. this descriptive, cross–sectional study was administered to patients and personnel, also making a review on the radiation-safety status in the hospitals. in evaluating the level of awareness, ...

OBJECTIVE To assess oral cancer awareness, its associated factors and related sources of information among a selected group of Malaysians. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on all Malaysian ethnic groups aged ≥15 years old at eight strategically chosen shopping malls within a two week time period. Data were analysed using chi-square tests and multiple logistic regression. Signifi...

The recent proliferation of virtual reality technology has attracted the interest of social scientists who study human behavior and perceptual experience. Such computer simulations are able to present technologically rendered environments, where the properties of the physical world are approximated or manipulated to varying degrees. The present study sought to investigate the influence of an im...

PRINCIPLE Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) protection and skin cancer awareness are essential in the avoidance of cutaneous malignancies. Skin cancer prevention programmes involve public educational campaigns, for example, for outdoor workers or school children. Since nonprofessional sun exposure (e.g. during outdoor sport) is increasing with today's lifestyle, we assessed UVR protection and skin ca...

In recent time climate change and its impact on human health and awareness constitute a set of complex and serious consequences to be tackled by an individual country. Climate change is not merely an environmental issue, but also it is a threat that goes beyond national borders. The purpose of this study is to identify the awareness and the impact of climate change, perceived by the young citiz...

The present study investigates the formation of new word-referent associations in an implicit learning scenario, using a gender-coded artificial language with spoken words and visual referents. Previous research has shown that when participants are explicitly instructed about the gender-coding system underlying an artificial lexicon, they monitor the frequency of exposure to male vs. female ref...