Overcoming Cognitive and Motivational Barriers to Media Literacy: A Dual-Process Approach by Erica Lynn Rosenthal Claremont Graduate University: 2012 In today’s fast-paced, hyper-mediated society, the ability to balance accuracy and efficiency is essential. Media literacy educational programs have arisen to meet this need and proliferated in recent years. Although the practice of media literacy...

this paper examines the relationship between accounting conservatism and informational content of earnings using data of 167 firms listed on the tehran stock exchange during 2004-2013. accounting conservatism is measured based on khan and watts' (2009) model and feltham and ohlsson (1995) price model and easton and hariss (1991) return models were used to evaluate the informational content...

BACKGROUND Residents who live in neighborhoods that are primarily black, Latino, or poor are more likely to have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, less likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and less likely to survive. No prior studies have been conducted to understand the contributing factors that may decrease the likelihood of residents learning and performing CPR in these ne...

Nationally, domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions. Universal screening is a vital means to identify those women who suffer in abusive relationships with intimate partners. Collaborative efforts between a community shelter for abused women and a local medical center's emergency department resulted in the development and implementation of a universal screening process. Barriers encou...

The paper describes the informational nature of consciousness by which the meaning is coming into existence in the form of meaningful information. The system of informational consciouness is derived recursively and then interpreted in various ways formalistically, linguistically, graph-like and geometrically. Informational axioms shape the basic philosophy of the informational, determining the ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the factors that influence acceptability of and adherence to online psychological interventions. Evidence is needed to guide further development of promising programs. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to investigate users' views of two online approaches to self-help for depression: computerized cognitive behavior therapy (cCBT) and informational websites, in a workplace...

the present research identified major barriers of isfahan university teachers participation in electronic technology courses. a second goal of this study was to examine the effects of characteristics and demographics of university teachers on these barriers. in this research problems and barriers fell into three distinct categories: personal, perceptual, and contextual. a questionnaire was desi...

Abstract When followed, there is evidence that social distancing measures play a major role in reducing the transmission of viruses such as COVID-19. However, not all individuals follow guidance. We explored barriers and facilitators to compliance with UK guidelines during COVID-19 pandemic through semi-structured interviews 116 adults. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis theme...

The paper is dedicated to the issues connected with the informational activity of a Higher Education Institution. The methods of acquiring and maintaining a complete informational image of a Higher Education Institution are devised. The ways of a Higher Education Institution positive informational image protection are elaborated. The following stages of an informational image forming are consid...

This paper deals with basic and advanced principles and consequences of the informational in a philosophical, formalistic (symbolic), schematic, and graphical way. The central notion is informational entity as the operand and its interaction (operational property) with other entities and itself. Informational externalism, internalism, metaphysicalism, and phenomenalism are principles constituti...