Using a sample of 656 men and 930 women from rural Malawi in 2000, the authors examined the association between various individual and community level factors, as well as participation in social groups, and four reproductive health outcomes: intentions to use any contraceptives in the next six months, current use of modem contraceptives, wanting an HIV test, and having had an HIV test. Women in...

The purpose of this study is to explore the advergame personality (AP) dimensions and to explicate the underlying relationships of the AP dimensions with company attributes, product categories, and consumers' behavioral intentions. A series of surveys with convenience samples indicates that consumers ascribe personality characteristics to advergames and that the perceived AP is five-dimensional...

objectives: limited studies have demonstrated that the theory of  planned behavior (tpb) may be able to help in explaining the variation in physicians’ behavior. we selected the management of asthma as the tracer topic because asthma had nationally known clinical guidelines, and the main medicinal therapies used for asthma had limited applications for the treatment of  other diseases, and hence...

Aiming to provide the synthetic speech with the ability to express speaker’s intentions and subtle nuances, we investigated the relationship between the speaker’s intentions that the listener perceived and sentence-final particle/intonation combinations in Japanese conversational speech. First, we classified F0 contours of sentence-final syllables in actual speech and found various distinctive ...

Two hundred and three children and siblings of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (age range: 30-92 years, 75% female) were surveyed regarding potential predictive testing options for the disorder. A mailed questionnaire posed various hypothetical scenarios and assessed the following variables: interest in testing, perceptions of its pros and cons, and psychological and demographic predicto...

This article contributes to a growing literature on the implementation of shariʿa -derived state legislation in Egypt by exploring how differently positioned divorced mothers navigate Egypt’s highly gendered personal status codes under circumstances where many men are increasingly unable discharge their part ‘patriarchal bargain’ due shortage affordable housing. We highlight two discrepancies b...