Social anxiety is a psychological disorder affected by cognitive aspects of person. The aim of study was to investigate the role of informational, normative, and avoidance identity styles in predicting the variance of social anxiety amongst Iranian medical science students. Using stratified sampling method, one hundred and twenty students were selected from each of the colleges of medicine, pha...

BACKGROUND Overwhelmed family decision makers of chronically critically ill patients must comprehend vital information to make complex treatment decisions that are consistent with patients' preferences. Exploration of informational coping styles of family decision makers may yield evidence for tailored communication practices supporting the psychological and informational needs of family decisi...

OBJECTIVE Compare effects of narrative and informational videos on use of mammography, cancer-related beliefs, recall of core content and a range of reactions to the videos. METHOD African American women (n=489) ages 40 and older were recruited from low-income neighborhoods in St. Louis, MO and randomly assigned to watch a narrative video comprised of stories from African American breast canc...

The general public tends to avoid reliable sources such as scientific literature due their complex language and lacking background knowledge. Instead, they rely on shallow derived the web in social media – often published for commercial or political incentives, rather than informational value. Can text simplification help remove some of these access barriers? This paper presents CLEF 2023 Simpl...

in Wilson's disease, and localization of iron in hemochromatosis. On pages 2 and 166, Birks discussed future trends in electron probe mocroanalysis, including lower cost instruments and those that will quantitate elements down to carbon. Such developments would open this microanalytic technique to the realm of the biologist. Birks writes with a crisp style, and with the insight of a worker in t...

Today’s growth of the service sector as a whole has created demand for more efficient service production. Many services require interaction between customers and service personnel, whereas some can be automated into self-services. In this study, we focus on services, that are neither purely human facilitated, nor purely automated, and contain uncertainty in the production process. Based on reso...

October 2011 marked the 25th Anniversary of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), which was celebrated for its "significant role in protecting human health and the environment over the last quarter century by providing communities and emergency planners with valuable information on toxic chemical releases in their area." This Note aims to evaluate the effectiveness of ...