PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate how familial communication about prostate cancer (PCa) risk and screening affects sons of men with PCa. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative grounded theory. SETTING Southern California. PARTICIPANTS 17 Latino sons of PCa survivors. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH The team conducted semistructured interviews and follow-up interviews. Therefore, the sample includes 25 tr...

Action planning is assumed to mediate between intentions and health behaviours. Moreover, intentions are assumed to moderate the planning-behaviour relation, because people with high intentions are more likely to enact their plans. The present studies extend these suppositions by integrating both assumptions to a novel and parsimonious model of moderated mediation: the mediation effect is hypot...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of a home-based cycling program for women with a recent diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on aerobic fitness, weight gain, self-reported mobility, attitude, and intentions toward maternal exercise, and obstetric and neonatal outcomes. METHODS Forty women (mean ± SD, 28.8 ± 0.9-wk gestation) were randomized to either a...

The present study examined the roles of work factors (i.e. job demands and job resources), work-family conflicts and culture on predictors of healthy intentions (fruit and vegetable consumption, low-fat diet and physical activity) within the framework of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Employees from the United Kingdom (N = 278) and Malaysia (N = 325) participated in the study. Results i...

By adopting the theory of planned behavior, this study tried to predict human resources managers' (N = 79) intentions toward unstructured and structured interview techniques. Managers evaluated case descriptions of both techniques and were interviewed about their own practices. The data revealed stronger intentions toward unstructured interviewing than toward structured interviewing, which was ...

We present AgentSpeak(RT), a real-time BDI agent programming language based on AgentSpeak(L). AgentSpeak(RT) extends AgentSpeak intentions with deadlines which specify the time by which the agent should respond to an event, and priorities which specify the relative importance of responding to a particular event. The AgentSpeak(RT) interpreter commits to a priority-maximal set of intentions: a s...

In this paper we further develop the formal theory of intentions suggested by C. Baral and M. Gelfond in 2005. In this work the authors formalized the behavior of an agent intending to execute a sequence of actions. The resulting axioms for intentions written in Knowledge Representation language Answer Set Prolog allowed to easily express such properties of intentions as persistence and non-pro...

the purpose of this study was to investigate relation between creativity and entrepreneurial intentions. statistical population was consisted of last-year juniors of agriculture from two agricultural collages at the university of tehran (karaj’s agricultural and natural resources campus and college of aburaihan) (n=420(. 201 ones were selected as statistical sample. the main instrument was a qu...

Intention preservation is an important aspect of consistency maintenance in real-time collaborative editing systems. The multi-version approach is able to preserve individual users’ concurrent conflicting intentions in a consistent way. Various multi-versioning schemes have been proposed. In this paper, a version composition algorithm is devised for a new multiversioning scheme that can preserv...