Background: The COVID-19 vaccination programme has been one of the most important measures to reduce spread and severity infection. However, acceptance vaccine met with challenges due speed its development concerns about side-effects. aim this study was assess knowledge as well barriers overall impact on personal protective behaviors surgical patients. Method: In cross-sectional study, a self-c...

Several studies have exposed the consumption of drugs by undergraduate students in the health area, who are supposed to be examples of behavior and health educators. This descriptive correlation study aimed to relate the benefits of tobacco consumption and barriers to quit according to the perception of undergraduate students. Eighty third-year students, in three different courses, answered a s...

Solar energy in Malaysia was first introduced as one of the five fuels in electricity generation through the Fifth Fuel Policy in 2001. However, the current real harnessing of available solar sources is still below its actual potential. This study examined the non-technical barriers towards solar energy implementation in Sabah located on the Borneo Island on eastern part of Malaysia. Following ...

Open educational resources (OERs) provide opportunities as enablers of societal development, but they also create new challenges. From the perspective of content providers and educational institutions, particularly, cultural and context-related challenges emerge. Even though barriers regarding large-scale adoption of OERs are widely discussed, empirical evidence for determining challenges in re...

conclusions a significant association was found between ages of women with their delays in consultation. delay is still prevalent amongst women with breast cancer. it seems necessary to design educating programs for women in both clinical and community settings, about breast cancer and early detection practices. results the mean age of women was 46.99 years. 38.4% of women were ≤ 40 years. 61% ...

Although eHealth technologies offer an enormous potential to improve healthcare, the knowledge about key determinants of acceptance for eHealth technology is restricted. While the underlying technology of eHealth technologies and Information and Communication technology (ICT) is quite similar, utilization contexts and using motives are quite different. In order to explore the role of technology...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the major barriers to application of good agricultural practices (gaps) technologies in sustainability of livestock by ranchers of meshkinshahr. a sample of 120 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method. data were collected by means of a questionnaire. validity of questionnaire was determined through agricultural jihad ex...

Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) may help improve care delivery at home for older adults with cognitive impairment and reduce the burden of informal caregivers. Examining the views of these stakeholders on SAR is fundamental in order to conceive acceptable and useful SAR for dementia care. This study investigated SAR acceptance among three groups of older adults living in the community: persons ...

the dissolution of the soviet :union: faced the disintegrated east superpower with a tattered economic structure that had to be restored with the assistance of the west in an atmosphere free from ideological barriers. except for russia that still claimed to be the superpower, other countries of the collapsed soviet :union: attempted, in various degrees, to attract the west investment and techno...

A medication-related Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is an application that analyzes patient data to provide assistance in care processes. Despite its potential improve the clinical decision-making process, evidence shows clinicians do not always use CDSSs such a way their can be fully realized. This systematic literature review provides overview of frequently-reported barriers and faci...