PURPOSE To assess the attitudes towards and practices related to preventive dentistry among Libyan dentists. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was conducted among dentists working in Benghazi. All dentists registered with the Dental Association of Benghazi and with two or more years of practice were invited to participate. The questionnaire enquired about dentists' demogra...

ABSTACT Objective: to describe the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the scale of attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics into the Spanish language. METHODS this was a methodological study, which followed the international guidelines for translation and adaptation of measurement scales. RESULTS During the process of translation and cultural adaptation of scale o...

BACKGROUND In general, it is difficult to objectively evaluate the results of an educational program. The semantic differential (SeD) technique, a methodology used to measure the connotative meaning of objects, words, and concepts, can, however, be applied to the evaluation of students' attitudes. In this study, we aimed to achieve an objective evaluation of the effects of radiological technolo...

The present study used the German Aging Semantic Differential (ASD) to assess attitudes toward younger and older adults in a heterogeneous sample of n 1⁄4 151 younger and n 1⁄4 143 older adults. The questionnaire was administered in two versions, one referring to the evaluation of younger adults, the other to the evaluation of older adults. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis replicated...

This investigation aimed to analyze the use of turn-takings, organization adjacency pairs that are practised in Pakistani drama. Drawing on framework presented by Young (2011), this research has provided insight into relationship between conversational and situational features which conversations were performed, figure out purpose operating a conversation specific situation, especially entertai...

Although power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the situation in directing attitudes, expressions, and intentions, 5 experiments (using experiential primes, semantic primes, and role manipulatio...

This paper investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of counterfactual attitude verbs in Taiwanese Southern Min, showing the differences between this type of attitude verbs and those discussed by Anand and Hacquard (2013). I propose that the semantics of counterfactual attitude verbs is composed of two components, a doxastic assertion and a counterfactual felicity condition, the former...

Nowadays, the exponential advancement of social networks is creating new application areas for recommender systems (RSs). People-to-people RSs aim to exploit user’s interests for suggesting relevant people to follow. However, traditional recommenders do not consider that people may share similar interests but might have different feelings or opinions about them. In this paper we propose a novel...

This study investigates formal and informal music learning through the attitudes and perspectives of 41 randomly selected non-music teachers from a suburban Toronto, Canada high school. Data collection includes a questionnaire based on a semantic differential scale, as well as a randomly selected focus group. Hence, this is a mixed method study integrating both quantitative and qualitative data...