a majority of books and writing translated from persian literature include persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. these books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from persian and are known as “books of advice”. this paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of persian literature.  having studied historical and liter...

This paper aims at checking the cross-cultural validity of well-know findings concerning the way people integrate communicated information. In a first experiment, a Japanese and a French population weighted the advices they were given in similar ways. In a second experiment, both populations showed some evidence of bias towards their own answer relative to an advice. In both experiments, partic...

The ability of 3- and 4-year-old children to disregard advice from an overtly misleading informant was investigated across five studies (total n = 212). Previous studies have documented limitations in young children's ability to reject misleading advice. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that these limitations are primarily due to an inability to reject specific directions that are...

The popularization of higher education largely impacts the balance of the supply and demand of the China higher education market. Starting from the basic concepts of the supply and demand of higher education, the actuality and influencing factors of the supply and demand in China higher education market are analyzed in this article, and corresponding advices and strategies about the sustainable...

Everyone may think she knows what is good and what is bad. One more theoretical article will hardly make anyone act differently. My goal here is to share simple recipes that are easy and often fun to put in practice and that make a big difference in one’s life. I am writing this note as an opportunity to share my most important snippets of advices with my students and younger collaborators at E...

With the financial assistance of the Nuffield Foundation, Mr. Greenland has completed a study of 10,000 letters addressed to certain "Advice Columns" of the national press. His report of some 120,000 words is awaiting publication in book form. This article is based on the chapter on psychiatric problems revealed in the correspondence. A brief account of the work as a whole giving details of the...

Methods Five pharmacies providing alcohol SBI services in three areas were purposively selected and data collected on service delivery and quality, via three methods: 1) Trained market researchers (MRs) covertly completed a structured checklist for each pharmacy on environment and service promotion, and requested a hangover treatment, recording experiences and outcomes of services offered. 2) M...

BACKGROUND Alcohol use in older adults is common. It is associated with depression, hypertension, diabetes, drug interactions, accidents, and increased rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations. METHODS A controlled clinical trial (Project GOAL--Guiding Older Adult Lifestyles) tested the efficacy of brief physician advice in reducing the alcohol use and use of health care serv...

The evidence showing that physical activity improves population health is substantial, but initiating physical activity (PA) behaviour changes remains a challenge. Physical activity is as powerful as most drugs in treating most chronic illnesses1 and brief advice in primary care is a cost-effective intervention.2 But as Joy et al point out in their seminal paper, “To succeed, physicians need cl...