BACKGROUND Transgender women often suffer from transition-related discrimination and loss of social support due to their gender transition, which may pose considerable psychological challenges and may lead to a high prevalence of depression in this population. Increased self-efficacy may combat the adverse effects of gender transition on depression. However, few available studies have investiga...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine factors associated with levels of condom use among heterosexual Thai males in sex with regular partners and in sex with casual partners. METHODS The data used in this study are from the national probability sample of the 2006 National Sexual Behavior Study, the third nationally representative cross-sectional survey in Thailand. A subtotal of 2,281 men we...

We tested the effect of conditioning time of Pinus sylvestris litter on food consumption and growth of laboratory-reared Sericostoma vittatum larvae. In all cases, larval mass was positively correlated with consumption rates but negatively with growth rates and gross production efficiencies. Conditioning time (4, 8 or 30 weeks) had an effect on feeding rates: they were lowest for the least cond...

Conditioned inhibition is demonstrated when the meaning of one signal (conditioned stimulus, CS) is qualified by another (conditioned inhibitor, CI). Whilst the CS presented alone reliably predicts the outcome (unconditioned stimulus, US), when presented in conjunction with the CI the otherwise expected US will not occur. Conditioned inhibition has long been established in animal research but t...

This study assesses the effects of colour-blindness on casual computer gaming performance and experience. Participants played an online puzzle game in both an unmodified environment and in a colour-blind simulation. Some of our results suggests that the colour-blind filter did not negatively impact player performance. However, post-test questionnaires reveal that users perceived the game to be ...

Many creativity tools exist to support task-focused creativity, but in recent years we have seen a flourishing of autotelic creativity tools, which privilege the enjoyable experience of explorative creativity over taskcompletion. Because these tools are much smaller in scope, less commercially significant, and less ”serious” than their larger siblings, they have been overlooked in academic rese...

Purpose Many restaurants offer high-quality service to their customers, hoping provide memorable experiences that influence loyalty and electronic word of mouth (eWOM). However, consumers' do not always imply positive eWOM. This study aims (1) verify the direct impacts perceived quality by consumers casual dining on emotions, negative emotions experiences; (2) investigate propensity eWOM; (3) t...

Tumor suppressors negatively regulate angiogenesis, an essential step in tumor progression. Together, HPV 16 E6 and E7 proteins, which target p53 and pRb family members, respectively, for degradation, increase the expression of two angiogenic inducers, VEGF and IL-8, in primary foreskin keratinocytes (HFKs). Conditioned media from such cells are sufficient to alter endothelial cell behavior. He...