Achieving a preventive attitude is the first step in eliminating cancer risk behaviours. This cross-sectional study evaluated the attitude towards the European Code against Cancer, in 3,031 relatives of cancer patients. The study looked for keys to improve attitude by means of educational interventions. Attitude was evaluated using a questionnaire with 63 items and a Likert's scale. Measured fr...

A numerical solution algorithm has been developed to solve a generalization of Wahba's attitude determination problem to the case of unknown attitude and attitude rate. It provides a robust global solution to nonlinear batch attitude and rate estimation problems for spinning spacecraft. The original Wahba problem seeks the attitude that fits a set of unit-normalized direction vector measurement...

A new spacecraft attitude estimation approach using particle filtering is derived. Based on sequential Monte Carlo simulation, the particle filter approximately represents the probability distribution of the state vector with random samples. The filter formulation is based on the star camera measurements using a gyro-based or attitude dynamics-based model for attitude propagation. Modified Rodr...

BACKGROUND In medical practice, the dissatisfaction of patients about medical decisions made by doctors is often regarded as the fuse of doctor-patient conflict. However, a few studies have looked at why there are such dissatisfactions. OBJECTIVES This experimental study aimed to explore the discrepancy between attitude and behavior within medical situations and its interaction with framing d...

Gordon Allport (1954) has described the attitude concept as "the primary building stone in the edifice of social psychology [p. 45]," and the extensive attitude literature in the past 20 years supports this contention. Stimulated primarily by the cognitive consistency theories, thousands of pages have been written recently on attitude formation and change. One possible reason for the popularity...

In two studies, we investigated the roles of explicit memory and attentional resources in the process of behavior-induced attitude change. Although most theories of attitude change (cognitive dissonance and self-perception theories) assume an important role for both mechanisms, we propose that behavior-induced attitude change can be a relatively automatic process that does not require explicit ...

This paper examines honorific mismatches between the allocutive marker and a 2P pronoun within clause in Japanese. Unlike languages such as Tamil, Punjabi, Magahi, among others, which require obligatory matching honorificity (and phi-features) clause, Japanese allows to also occur with non-honorific pronoun. These mismatching structures can be interpreted both literally sarcastically. We provid...

Utterance Honorifics (UHs) are generally regarded as a main clause phenomenon they reflect the speaker’s attitude towards addressee/audience. UHs in Japanese present challenging problem to this view, however, it has been reported that can be embedded under some circumstances (Miyagawa 2012; Yamada 2019 and references therein). In paper, we closely examine embedding patterns of three UH markers ...