Since the last comprehensive review in 1974, the Health Belief Model (HBM) has continued to be the focus of considerable theoretical and research attention. This article presents a critical review of 29 HBM-related investigations published during the period of 1974-1984, tabulates the findings from 17 studies conducted prior to 1974, and provides a summary of the total 46 HBM studies (18 prospe...

OBJECTIVE Epidemiological studies have shown an association between increased bone mineral density (BMD) and osteoarthritis (OA), but whether this represents cause or effect remains unclear. In this study, we used a novel approach to investigate this question, determining whether individuals with High Bone Mass (HBM) have a higher prevalence of radiographic hip OA compared with controls. DESI...

BACKGROUND Human biomonitoring (HBM) has rapidly gained importance. In some epidemiological studies, the measurement and use of biomarkers of exposure, susceptibility and disease have replaced traditional environmental indicators. While in HBM, ethical issues have mostly been addressed in terms of informed consent and confidentiality, this paper maps out a larger array of societal issues from a...

BACKGROUND The systematic application of Pap test helps early diagnosis and effective treatment of cervical cancer. This study was conducted to assess the effect of education on health beliefs and practice of women eligible for Pap test using Health Belief Model (HBM). METHODS This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Hamadan City, the west of Iran, in 2010 using before-after design. In ...

Combinig the harmonic balance method (HBM) and a continuation method is a well-known technique to follow the periodic solutions of dynamical systems when a control parameter is varied. However, since deriving the algebraic system containing the Fourier coefficients can be a highly cumbersome procedure, the classical HBM is often limited to polynomial (quadratic and cubic) nonlinearities and/or ...

AIM Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from human bone marrow (hBM) and adipose tissue (hAT) are perceived as attractive sources of stem cells for cell therapy. The aim of this study was to compare MSCs from hBM and hAT for their immunocytochemistry staining and resistance to in vitro apoptosis. METHODS In our study, we investigated the antiapoptotic ability of these MSCs toward oxidative...

We have studied psychophysically the characteristics of the postreceptoral stage of visual processing, using heterochromatic brightness matching (HBM) between 540 and 600 nm, and hue discrimination between 565 and 585 nm, under differing luminance flicker (0-30 Hz) and excitation purity (1.0-0.1) conditions. The HBM curves exhibit deeper minima around 575 nm with decreasing purity. The minimum ...

As technology feature size is reduced, ESD becomes the dominant failure mode due to lower gate oxide breakdown voltage. In this paper, the effectiveness of new gate and substrate triggering techniques has been investigated to lower the trigger voltage of the LVTSCR and MOSFET based ESD protection circuits using 2D simulations and HBM/TLP measurements. The simulation results show that the using ...

Based on the harmonic balance method (HBM), an approximate solution is determined from the integral expression (i.e., first order differential equation) of some strongly nonlinear oscillators. Usually such an approximate solution is obtained from second order differential equation. The advantage of the new approach is that the solution converges significantly faster than that obtained by the us...

Abattoir blood meal is rich in nitrogen and its potential as a co-composting material for horse stable bedding waste was evaluated at two C/N ratios -32 (LBM, low blood meal) and 16 (HBM, high blood meal) - to improve the nutrient contents of the final compost. The mix was composted for 7 days in a 10 tonne/day in-vessel composter and cured aerobically. After 56 days ofcomposting, the ammoniaca...