The study illuminates the subjective experience of haemophilia in people who took part in the Haemophilia Experience, Results and Opportunities (HERO) initiative, a quali-quantitative research program aimed at exploring psychosocial issues concerning this illness around the world. Applying a bottom-up analytic process with the help of software for textual data, we investigated 19 interviews in ...

This study attempts to reveal the effect of family structure on social participation of  Payame Noor university students, it consists of 339 students. The theoretical framework of this investigation is based on two hypotheses. Hegen personality structure theory and Parsons action theory.  One hypotheses is on satisfactoriness in the family structure were based on personality structure theory an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Increased knowledge of stroke risk factors in the general population may lead to improved prevention of stroke. The objective of the present study was to assess knowledge of stroke risk factors and to determine factors associated with knowledge. METHODS In a population-based survey, we sent a questionnaire to randomly selected residents in Berlin who were > or =50 years...

Stereotype research depicts the generic immigrant as incompetent and untrustworthy. The current research expands this image, specifying key information dimensions (e.g. nationality, socioeconomic status) about immigrants. To see how perceivers differentiate among particular immigrant groups, we extend a model of intergroup perception, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu...

The Li nationality costume not only has practical value, but also has very high aesthetic value. In the long historical process, Li ethnic costume has experienced a long development and evolution process, which embodies inevitable trend of our times. The Li nationality costume expresses that the Li people advocate the aesthetic meanings of nature, history, and life of the body. It has a lot of ...

Name entities (NEs), especially personal names, are very important components in interpreting some kinds of text documents e.g. news. To extract personal names efficiently, statistical language models are required to denote characteristics of personal names. Among these characteristics, nationality of a name is a useful source for interpreting the text document. Automatically inferencing nation...