Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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National survey of public attitudes to disability in Ireland 2017
The National Disability Authority (NDA) commissioned Behaviour & Attitudes (B&A) to conduct a nationally representative survey on public attitudes to disability in Ireland in 2017.
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The mechanism of labor in nonhuman primates: A look inside
Abstract While in humans, the flexed position of the fetus and its rotating course down the birth canal are well documented, in other primates the mechanism of labor is unknown. Despite the lack of comparative data, it is commonly assumed that the human obstetric mechanism is unique, and anthropologists have disputed when and why the transition to the ...
Melissa K. Stoller
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Writing-to-Learn : Attitudes of nursing students at Sultan Qaboos University
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the attitude of Omani nursing students towards writing-to-learn (WTL) and its relationship to demographic variables, self-efficacy and the writing process. Methods: A cross-sectional design was used
Shreedevi Balachandran +3 more
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Validity and reliability of the scale of attitudes toward statistics
The objective of the research was to determine the validity and reliability of a new Attitude Scale towards Statistics, constructed by the authors of the present investigation based on the Auzmendi Scale, which postulates the presence of an Ethical Dimension, applied to Engineering students and Social Sciences of the National University "Pedro Ruiz ...
Antón Pérez, Juan Manuel +1 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
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Occupational therapists : empowerors or oppressors? : a study of occupational therapy students' attitudes towards disabled people [PDF]
The aim of the research was to investigate the concepts of, and attitudes towards, people with physical disabilities held by occupational therapy (OT) students, so that a theory of professional attitudes and professional action could be developed. The
Taylor, M. Clare
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Statistical reasoning and attitudes toward statistics
Research in the area of learning and teaching probability and statistics has shown that students’ reasoning in situations involving uncertainty is frequently not in agreement with formal theory. Intuitions in this area are often misguided and, even after a regular course in statistics, many students keep falling into the same forms of incorrect ...
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A bifactor model for the Scale of Attitudes towards Statistics
Les objectifs de cette étude étaient de déterminer les propriétés psychométriques de l’échelle d’attitudes envers les statistiques au Mexique. Dans cette étude instrumentale, un échantillon non probabiliste de 383 étudiants mexicains en psychologie ayant répondu à deux échelles d’attitudes a été analysé.
Moral de la Rubia, José +3 more
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Emotional responses of veterinary students to first encounters with animal body donors
Abstract Students' first encounters with animal body donors in higher education are a formative and also potentially stressful experience. The complex emotions elicited by body donor use in learning and their effects on professional development have been documented in medical students, but are far less explored in veterinary medical counterparts.
S. Regnault, C. Basu, S. Channon
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