Objective. The public has a high interest in seeking personal genetic information, which holds implications for health information seeking research and health care policy. Rapid advances in cancer genetics research promise early detection, prevention and treatment, yet consumers may have greater difficulty finding and using the information they may need to make informed decisions regarding thei...

Social Virtual Worlds (SVWs) are increasingly being used in education; however, little is known about how personal motivation affects engagement in online learning courses (elearning). This article focuses on Second Life which is one of the better known SVW platforms and allows relationships to develop amongst people who share similar interests and/or activities The aims of this study are twofo...

BACKGROUND The Turkish population living in The Netherlands has a high prevalence of psychological complaints and has a high threshold for seeking professional help for these problems. Seeking help through the Internet can overcome these barriers. This project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a guided self-help problem-solving intervention for depressed Turkish migrants that is culturally ...

BACKGROUND Social cohesion, the self-reported trust and connectedness between neighbors, may affect health behaviors via psychosocial mechanisms. PURPOSE Relations between individual perceptions of social cohesion and smoking cessation were examined among 397 Black treatment-seeking smokers. METHODS Continuation ratio logit models examined the relation of social cohesion and biochemically v...

As the most prevalent social media platform in mainland China, WeChat enables interpersonal communication among users and serves as an innovative marketing for enterprises to interact with consumers. Although numerous studies have investigated antecedents of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM), users’ specific behaviors still receive limited academic attention. Drawing from capital theory exchange...

Inverse (water-in-oil) miniemulsions are an important method to encapsulate hydrophilic payloads such as oligonucleotides or peptides. However, the stabilization of inverse miniemulsions usually requires block copolymers that are difficult to synthesize and/or cannot be easily removed after transfer from a hydrophobic continuous phase to an aqueous continuous phase. We describe here a new strat...

Human needs give way to the engagement of consumers in different activities which provide avenues for self-expression or to experience the anticipated emotional benefits that differentiate them from others. One such category of consumers is termed as Sensation Seekers. This research study explores the phenomenon of congruence and examines the correlation between sensation, brand personality and...

Introduction: Evaluation of user satisfaction should be regularly monitored during the various phases of deployment of a clinical information system (CIS). Objective: This paper compares in a Articles longs des 15es Journées francophones d’informatique médicale, JFIM 2014, pages 115–126 Fès, Maroc, 12–13 juin 2014 late post-adoption phase CIS satisfaction in the three hospitals of the Paris-Wes...