BACKGROUND Stigmatization among healthcare providers towards mental illnesses can present obstacles to effective caregiving. This may be especially the case for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Our study measured the impact of a three hour workshop on BPD and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) on attitudes and behavioral intentions of healthcare providers towards persons with BPD as well ...

"Fat talk" describes women discussing their bodies disparangingly for impression management while interacting with one another. This study examined whether college females deliberately alter their self-reported body image according to characteristics of their prospective audience. This study was a mixed experimental design with four audience conditions (private, public, female audience, male au...

BACKGROUND Patients with neurodegenerative diseases usually experience significant functional deficits. Older adults with Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) may suffer from both motor and cognitive impairments, making them especially vulnerable to poor dual-task performance. OBJECTIVE To analyze the dual-task cost of walking in subjects with PD and AD exposed to motor and c...

islamic banking, as a major center for financial transactions in islamic societies,plays a key role in the development of islamic economics. the fundamental essenceof islamic banking system is based on the fact that although, islam has forbidden theinterest in transactions, but trade and profit is encouraged and supported. the actualimplementation of the islamic banking system due to its unique...

BACKGROUND The predominant mode of treatment in government dental clinics in Tanzania has been tooth extraction because the economy could not support the conventional restorative care which depends on expensive equipment, electricity and piped water systems. Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) was perceived as a suitable alternative. A 3.5-year study was designed to document the changes in t...

To deal with the curse of dimensionality in high dimensional nonparamet-ric problems, we consider using tensor product space ANOVA models, which extend the popular additive models and are able to capture interactions of any order. The multivariate function is given an ANOVA decomposition, i.e, it is expressed as a constant plus the sum of functions of one variable (main eeects), plus the sum of...