Interventions to change health-related behaviours typically have modest effects and may be more effective if grounded in appropriate theory. Most theories applied to public health interventions tend to emphasise individual capabilities and motivation, with limited reference to context and social factors. Intervention effectiveness may be increased by drawing on a wider range of theories incorpo...

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We calculated the impact factor (IF) of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) for the 1994-2003 period, ie, including the years before its inclusion into the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) database in 1999. There was a latency period of several years from the inclusion of the Journal in indexing databases to the IF increase. According to the ISI Journal of Citation Report, IF of the CMJ...

Today, more than ever, monitoring and surveillance systems play an important role in many aspects of our lives. Technology plays a vital role in our efforts to create, store and analyze vast amounts of data for both security and commercial purposes. In this paper, we propose an application which combines research performed in computer networks, multimedia databases and computer vision. We consi...

Objective To systematize the knowledge and the learning of how the instrument Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) has been applied. Method Integrative review, performed from May to July 2014, searching the databases Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline), PubMed and Scienti...

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With the reliance of businesses, public institutions and individuals on large computer networks, maintaining their security becomes essential to ensure integrity. To achieve situational awareness, we developed BANKSAFE, which is a scalable, distributed and webbased visualization system to analyze health monitoring data and security datasets. To handle large amounts of data a cloud-based backend...

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Dietitians can obtain nutrition-related information from a variety of sources. The current study was to investigate how registered dietitians look for nutritional information and perceive evidence-based nutrition (EBN). A postal questionnaire survey was conducted, with 67 valid returns collected. The most common informational sources were Web portals, followed by continuing education, colleague...

Scientific publishing is rapidly developing from print-only to digital journals and extensive use of social media. This essay presents our experience in developing a small and scholarly journal from the so-called scientific semi-periphery and using the advantages of digital publishing to increase the visibility of the journal in international indexing and citation databases, and ensure greater ...