The effects of additions of three wastes from sugar mills on the properties of an acid soil were investigated. The wastes used were boiler ash and filter cake from a conventional milling operation and fly ash from a new milling process, where filter cake is burnt in the boilers. Additions of each of the wastes at two sites raised soil pH and increased maize yields in a pot experiment; the effec...

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INTRODUCTION A crucial assumption in health valuation methods is that respondents pay equal attention to all information components presented in the response task. So far, there is no solid evidence that respondents are fulfilling this condition. The aim of our study is to explore the attendance to various information cues presented in the discrete choice (DC) response tasks. METHODS Eye trac...

By age 3, children track a speaker's record of past accuracy and use it as a cue to current reliability. Two experiments (N=95 children) explored whether preschoolers' judgements about, and trust in, the accuracy of a previously reliable informant extend to other members of the informant's group. In Experiment 1, both 3- and 4-year-olds consistently judged an animated character who was associat...

Violence is increasing worldwide mainly among the most socially vulnerable groups such as women, elderly people, children and adolescents. In addition to the justice sector, many other areas and workers are involved and they are becoming even more important for addressing violence. One such area is the health sector. This article aims to identify the creative potential of videos that aim to tac...

Alexithymia is the inability or diminished ability to understand and express emotions or feelings in the self and/or of others. This paper addressed the relationship between alexithymia and emotional intensity in response to the perceived reality of information (a video) presented. Students were tested for degree of alexithymia and subsequently divided into one of two groups. Students were show...

The present study explored the effects of lecture fluency on students' metacognitive awareness and regulation. Participants watched one of two short videos of an instructor explaining a scientific concept. In the fluent video, the instructor stood upright, maintained eye contact, and spoke fluidly without notes. In the disfluent video, the instructor slumped, looked away, and spoke haltingly wi...

Based on a systematical probability national sample of US hospitals that have taken advantage of YouTubeTM videos, this study has investigated, with the content analysis approach, how hospitals have used YouTubeTM videos to market themselves and to connect to users. The study has found that, though hospitals have not implemented YouTubeTM videos as a routine marketing tool, their videos have be...

For successful communication, conversational partners need to estimate each other's current knowledge state. Nonverbal facial and bodily cues can reveal relevant information about how confident a speaker is about what they are saying. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we aimed to identify brain regions that encode how confident a speaker is perceived to be. Participants viewed videos...

The importance of using culturally sensitive educational materials in HIV-related interventions with racial and ethnic minority groups is widely recognized. However, little empirical research has been conducted to assess the relative effectiveness of different techniques for creating culturally sensitive AIDS educational videos. Two field experiments with three samples of African American adult...