BACKGROUND In 2015, the Australian government launched the media campaign Ice Destroys Lives targeting crystal methamphetamine use. Previous research indicates mass media campaigns may have harmful effects for people engaged in drug use. This study investigated perceptions and harms of Ice Destroys Lives among adults with a history of injecting drugs and young people. METHODS This analysis in...

This paper will examine the influence of radio political campaign messages on the electorates’ voting behavior in Kano – Nigeria, with a focus on the 2015 general elections. It seeks to ascertain the extent that the electorates in Kano – Nigeria were exposed to radio political campaign messages, as well as the extent to which such messages influenced their voting decisions. Equally, the study c...

QRISTAL [10], [13] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR evaluation campaign (Evalda, Technolangue [4]) and in first rank in French for CLEF 2005, 2006 and 2007 [11], [12], [14]. This article describes the improvements of the system since last year. Then, it presents our...

The study aimed to assess the characteristics and reported behaviour change of participants in the BBC's 'Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit' (FFFF) campaign. A postal questionnaire survey was sent to a random sample of 6000 adults registering with the FFFF campaign at the start of the campaign and 5 months later. Demographic characteristics, weight, eating behaviour and activity patterns were assessed...

This study evaluated the efficacy of Above the Influence (ATI), a national media-based health persuasion campaign to deter youth drug use. The campaign uses public service anti-drug prevention messages and targets youth between the ages of 14 and 16, a period of heightened susceptibility to peer influences. The evaluation utilized mall intercepts from geographically dispersed regions of the cou...

A multifaceted approach to atmospheric aerosol analysis is often desirable in field studies where an understanding of technical comparability among different measurement techniques is essential. Herein, we report quantitative intercomparisons of particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and proton elastic scattering analysis (PESA), performed of fline under a vacuum, with analysis by aerosol mass ...

Aerosol optical properties measured at the Pasadena, CA site during the CalNex field campaign in May eJune 2010 are summarized. Average measurements of PM2.5 aerosol extinction, scattering, absorption coefficients, and single scattering albedo (bext, bscat, babs and SSA) at l 1⁄4 532 nmwere 62 Mm 1, 58 Mm 1, 4 Mm 1, and 0.92, respectively. The aerosol optical densities were 5 times lower than d...

background: lassa fever is an acute, virulent viral haemorrhagic illness with high morbidity and mortality rates. its awareness remain low in sub urban or rural community. this study was carried out to assess the awareness of lassa fever of a rural community in the south western part of nigeria. methodology: a descriptive cross sectional study of 122 respondents prior to a sensitization seminar...

OBJECTIVE The study analysed the effect of Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) campaign activities on the adoption of a community-based health insurance (CHI) scheme in Nouna, Burkina Faso. It also identified the factors that enhanced or limited the campaign's effectiveness. DESIGN Complementary data collection approaches were used. A survey was conducted with 250 randomly selecte...

The existence of pockets of under-vaccinated persons has allowed outbreaks of disease in countries that have achieved high levels of vaccination coverage. A field-based methodology--GAPS (Geographic Assessment of Planning and Services)--was developed to predict, in advance of an immunization campaign, the sites of which are most likely to have a pocket of unvaccinated persons and then use this ...