OBJECTIVES The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate a five-session dating violence prevention curriculum in terms of its effect on attitudes justifying the use of dating violence. METHODS The curriculum was implemented in all health classes in a Long Island, New York, school. A total of 193 students participated (boys, n = 106; girls, n = 87). A quasi-experimental design was used to ev...

the progress made in the field of information technology has increasingly encouraged social researchers to conduct social studies. researchers employ technology acceptance model (tam, davis, 1984, 1985.2000) to analyze the mechanism and the use it and the social factors affecting it. the attitude towards the computer is one of the variables of tam. the purpose of the present paper is to study t...

BACKGROUND Dietary habits are formed at an early age and to a large extent they affect such nutritional behaviour in adulthood. Mothers in particular, influence family nutrition. In this respect, their knowledge, attitudes and behaviour about nutrition are responsible for the schooling of future generations. Many aspects of the link between food and health with nutritional behaviour in girls re...

W conduct experiments measuring individual behavior under compound risk, simple risk, and ambiguity. We focus on (1) treatment of compound risks relative to simple risks and (2) the relationship between compound risk attitudes and ambiguity attitudes. We find that compound risks are valued differently than corresponding reduced simple risks. These differences measure compound risk attitudes. Th...

Islam has particular style and doctrine about health and treatment that makes it different from other treatment methods. The aim of this article is studying the principles and methods of Islamic health treatment and the attitudes of this religion toward appearance of disease caused by material or immaterial factors. This article is review type and it is presented by descriptive analysis met...

This paper describes a research project in progress of developing a Multi-Agent System-based educational game QuizMASter for e-learning that would help students learn their course material through friendly competition. We explore the use of perceptive pedagogical agents that would be able to determine the learner’s attitudes; to assess learners’ emotional states through examining learner’s stan...

Culture is a key dimension of the information society, that refers to the cumulative knowledge, experience, beliefs, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, spatial relations and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in each generations. This research proposed a method to create linked open data from semantic relation extraction for Thai cultural archive. It describ...

Background: There has been little interest in the research literature on public opinions regarding assisted conception and surrogacy, particularly in Iran. Nevertheles, the growing evidence shows that problems in adaptation and coping may be related to perceived normative values. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study, questionnaires on attitudes to surrogacy were completed by 187...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety sensitivity among students of the islamic azad university of hamadan. the research method was correlation. the statistical population of this study consisted of all the university students from among which 200 students (120 females, 80 ma...