Design: Cross-sectional. Objective: Aim 1 was to preliminarily explore the contributions of the following factors to adherence to LBP practice guidelines using regression modeling: 1) the credential qualification of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT); 2) balance of biomedical and behavioral (i.e. biopsychosocial) oriented approach for low back pain (LBP); 3) demographics; 4) academic degree...

OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the standards of rationality that physicians use when evaluating patients' treatment refusals. DESIGN OF THE STUDY Qualitative design with in depth interviews. PARTICIPANTS The study sample included 30 patients with cancer and 16 physicians (oncologists and general practitioners). All patients had refused a recommended oncological treatment. RESULTS Patients...

According to Rashkin et al. (2016) and other researchers, a text not only reveals the attitudes of the discourse referents dealt with in the text, but it also indicates how they are framed by the text author. Do they play a positive or negative role in the exposed narrative? We call this the author’s role framing. While the attitudes tell us who is for or against who (pro and con relations), th...

Modeling dialog as a collaborative activity consists notably in specifying the content of the Conversational Common Ground and the kind of social mental state involved. In previous work (Saget, 2006), we claim that Collective Acceptance is the proper social attitude for modeling Conversational Common Ground in the particular case of goal-oriented dialog. We provide a formalization of Collective...

Frugal innovation has become popular in ecologically vulnerable areas the past decade, as it was initiated under a resource-constrained paradigm. However, there been limited research on its influence factors and fundamental operating mechanisms such areas. This paper aims to address this gap by using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) analyze unique datasets from three China. Based theory o...

The purpose of this study is to understand the differentiated impact politics- and science-oriented education on pro-environmental behavior among university students. A questionnaire was designed sent more than 14,000 students from 152 universities in China using snowball sampling method. In questionnaire, environmental knowledge divided innovatively into two parts: Science-oriented spread by t...

Most theories of conditionals and attitudes do not analyze either phenomenon in terms of the other. A few view attitude reports as a species of conditionals (e.g. Stalnaker 1984, Heim 1992). Based on evidence from Kalaallisut, this paper argues for the opposite thesis: conditionals are a species of attitude reports. The argument builds on prior findings that conditionals are modal topic-comment...