Mammography screening has been demonstrated to decrease mortality from breast cancer. Although adherence rates have increased, there is still a need to increase annual screening. Self-efficacy is a construct that has been found useful in predicting behaviors. Measurement of self-efficacy needs to be specific to the behavior and to have good validity and reliability. The purpose of this study is...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Currently available tools to measure teamwork, an essential component of primary care, are generally very resource intensive and thus cannot be administered frequently. To explore the possibility of developing a brief teamwork-assessment instrument, we first administered 29 questions about teamwork from the Practice Environment Checklist (PEC) to all members of six cli...

technical principles to concrete research problems that appear in a wide variety of forms and with a myriad of obscuring features, details, and idiosyncracies. This article is based on a different approach: examination of a series of concrete research scenarios that we have encountered in our work as researchers, advisors to researchers, or reviewers. This article examines 26 real-world "case s...

Sichtbare Mehrsprachigkeit zeigt sich im öffentlichen Raum auf Hinweis-, Informationsund Geschäftsschilden sowie auf Graffiti und Aufklebern und gibt Aufschluss über Migration, Kulturund Konsumtourismus. Das von MERCUR (Mercator Research Center Ruhr) geförderte Projekt „Metropolenzeichen: Visuelle Mehrsprachigkeit in der Metropole Ruhr“ ist eine als Querschnittstudie für die Städte Duisburg, Es...

We consider an experiment in which a rectangular flat plate is flapped with two degrees of freedom, and a genetic algorithm tunes its trajectory parameters so as to achieve maximum average lift force, thus evolving a population of trajectories all yielding optimal lift forces. We cluster the converged population by defining a dynamical formation number for a flapping flat plate, thus showing th...

A joint experimental and computational methodology is developed and applied to investigate a vortex ring impinging normally on a wall. The method uses digital particle image velocimetry to make planar flow measurements, which are then used to initialize a second-order finite difference calculation. The experiment and the simulation are compared at later times and agree extremely well. The ring ...

Objetivo: evaluar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala Satisfacción con el Apoyo Social en personas tuberculosis pulmonar. Método: estudio metodológico desarrollado dos etapas: validación del contenido los ítems; y evaluación Escala. Los datos se recogieron entre octubre 2020 enero 2021 una muestra 204 individuos pulmonar centros diagnóstico norte Portugal. Resultados: La escala validada ...

This note reviews several methods proposed for calculating the amount of an appropriate remittitur using a sample of “comparable” cases. It recommends a simple quantile estimate. A remittitur is a post-trial procedure that may arise after a plaintiff has established liability and is awarded damages by the jury. Under U.S. law, the defendant may move for a new trial, or, in the alternative, a re...