BACKGROUND HIV infection related to commercial sexual contact is a serious public health issue in China. The objectives of the present study are to explore the predictors of condom use among female sex workers (FSWs) in China and examine the relationship between Health Belief Model (HBM) constructs. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A cross-sectional study was conducted in two cities (Wuhan and ...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is a major health problem in developing and developed countries, and its increasing epidemy is a serious warning to take more attention to this silent disease. AIM This study was aimed to determine the factors of adherence to hypertension medication based on health belief model (HBM). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in a rural area of the A...

The transient system deficit hypothesis (TSDH) of specific reading disability [Percept. Psychophys. 40 (1986) 440] remains contentious. As part of a study examining multiple measures of transient and sustained system function, heterochromatic flicker matching (HFM) and brightness matching (HBM) were assessed in 30 poor readers (9.11+/-0.68 years) and 30 age, grade and sex matched controls (9.24...

We propose an input protection scheme composed of thyristor devices only without using a clamp NMOS device in order to minimize the area consumed by a pad structure in CMOS RF ICs. For this purpose, we suggest low-voltage triggering thyristor protection device structures assuming usage of standard CMOS processes, and attempt an in-depth comparison study with a conventional thyristor protection ...

Objective: Pap smear test is an appropriate screening method for early diagnosis of cervical cancer and reduction of mortality. This study targeted effects of group counseling based on the Health Belief Model on cervical cancer screening practices of Iranian rural women. Method: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 80 rural women under coverage of the health care centers in rural area...

This study investigated how the design of surface topography may stimulate stem cell differentiation towards a neural lineage. To this end, hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) groove topographies with width/spacing ridges ranging from 80/40μm, 40/30μm and 30/20μm and depth of 24 nm were used as a single mechanotransducer stimulus to generate neural cells from human bone marrow mesenchymal ste...

Human biomonitoring (HBM) programs have been established in several countries around the world in order to monitor the levels of chemical exposures in the general population and qualify health risk assessment of national and international interest. Study design, population, sample collection, and chemical analysis must be considered when comparing and interpreting the results. In this review, t...

For three fundamental input-protection schemes suitable for high-frequency CMOS ICs, which utilize protection devices such as NMOS transistors, thyristors, and diodes, we attempt an in-depth comparison on HBM ESD robustness in terms of lattice heating inside protection devices and peak voltages developed across gate oxides in input buffers, based on DC, mixed-mode transient, and AC analyses uti...

The Italian program for human biomonitoring (HBM) of chemical elements, PROgram for Biomonitoring of the Exposure (PROBE), started in 2008 with the aim to provide the knowledge about risk assessment of the Italian population following the environmental exposure to metals. The project is implemented through a HBM campaign for the production of data on 19 metals in the blood and serum of subjects...

The work of Hsu & Chater [1] and Perfors et al. [2] establishes that sophisticated statistical learning techniques known as Hierarchical Bayesian Models (HBMs) can successfully capture certain observed patterns of both underand over-generalization in child language acquisition. This paper shows that a much simpler method, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), can equal HBM performance. The work ...