Background: People with schizophrenia are more stigmatized than those other mental illnesses. Stigmatization can be measured using the English version of Stigma Measurement Scale contained in explanatory model interview catalogue (EMIC). Objectives: This study aimed to translate into Berber language and validate translated version. Methods: was conducted public hospitals southern Morocco, which...

The primary goal of the project was to understand the cultural similarities and differences in perception, adoption and usage of technology across three cultures (US, India and China) in the domain of home entertainment. The methodology used for this research project includes a combination of “etic” and “emic” studies of the cultures. The etic perspective is based on literature review of variou...

OBJECTIVE To compare the influence of archwire material (NiTi, beta-Ti and stainless steel) and brackets design (self-ligating and conventional) on the frictional force resistance. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two types of brackets (self-ligating brackets - Smartclip, 3M/Unitek - and conventional brackets - Gemini, 3M/Unitek) with three (0, 5, and 10 degrees) slot angulation attached with elastomeric...

BACKGROUND Health professionals at all levels gradually recognise the impact of stigma on case detection and treatment of various health conditions such as leprosy and tuberculosis. These diseases are identified as chronic diseases which are prone to stigmatisation. PURPOSE To assess the perception of community members towards stigma related to leprosy and tuberculosis, in order to verify and...

SETTING Tuberculosis (TB) control programmes in Bangladesh, India and Malawi. OBJECTIVE To compare the interval from symptom onset to diagnosis of TB for men and women, and to assess socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness explaining diagnostic delay. DESIGN Semi-structured Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) interviews were administered to 100 or more patients at eac...

This study investigates technology adoption behavior of Saudi Arabian knowledge workers using desktop computers within the context of TAM2, and the unique effects of Saudi culture on IT adoption within the developing, non-Western, country. Following the guidelines of the etic-emic research tradition, which encourages cross-cultural theory and framework testing, the study findings reveal that th...

Investigated here are factors that control the intensities and shapes of energetic ion spectra that make up the ring current populations of the strongly magnetized planets of the solar system, specifically those of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Following a previous and similar comparative investigation of radiation belt electrons, we here turn our attention to ions. Specifically,...

Using five spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit, plasmaspheric drainage plumes are located in the dayside magnetosphere and the measured pitch angle anisotropies of radiation belt electrons are compared duskward and dawnward of the plumes. Two hundred twenty-six plume crossings are analyzed. It is found that the radiation belt anisotropy is systematically greater dawnward of plumes (before the el...

Em 5 de novembro 2015, os subdistritos Mariana-MG, Bento Rodrigues e Paracatu Baixo, foram completamente destruídos pelo rompimento da barragem Fundão. O desastre ambiental causou mortes humanos, flora, fauna deixou o município sem a sua principal receita. Sem mineração governo local população passaram vivenciar uma crise econômica social. Para reparar compensar danos dos atingidos diretos indi...