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Examining public health practitioners’ perceptions and use of behavioural sciences to design health promotion interventions [PDF]
Background Behavioural sciences have been shown to support the development of more effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. However, the operationalization of this knowledge seems to be sub-optimal in public health.
Ariane Bélanger-Gravel+7 more
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“Psyosphere”: A GPS Data-Analysing Tool for the Behavioural Sciences [PDF]
Positioning technologies, such as GPS are widespread in society but are used only sparingly in behavioural science research, e.g., because processing positioning technology data can be cumbersome.
Benjamin Ziepert+2 more
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Why and how to engage expert stakeholders in ontology development: insights from social and behavioural sciences [PDF]
Background Incorporating the feedback of expert stakeholders in ontology development is important to ensure content is appropriate, comprehensive, meets community needs and is interoperable with other ontologies and classification systems.
Emma Norris+5 more
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Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health? [PDF]
At its core, One Health promotes multidisciplinary cooperation amongst researchers and practitioners to improve the effectiveness and management of complex problems raised by the interplay of human, animal and environment interactions.
Lucy Carter, Aditi Mankad, Walter Okello
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Use of Acoustics in Studies of Fish Reaction to Imposed Stimuli [PDF]
This paper describes a system for monitoring the behaviour of salmon in culture in relation to environmental factors and different rearing conditions.
Å. Bjordal+6 more
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The County Lines Model (CLM) is a relatively new illicit drugs distribution method found in Great Britain. The CLM has brought modern slavery and public health issues, while challenging the law-enforcement capacity to act, as coordination between ...
Leonardo Castro-Gonzalez
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Promoting Energy Efficiency: Barriers, Societal Needs and Policies
The Climate Change urgency requires a swift reduction of energy consumption. One way to achieve this is through increased energy efficiency. Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency has been guided by the physical–technical–
Nives Della Valle, Paolo Bertoldi
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Introduction Improving peri‐ and postnatal facility‐based care in low‐resource settings (LRS) could save over 6000 babies' lives per day. Most of the annual 2.4 million neonatal deaths and 2 million stillbirths occur in healthcare facilities in LRS and ...
Michelle Heys+16 more
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Background: National clinical audit programmes aim to improve patient care by reviewing performance against explicit standards and directing action towards areas not meeting those standards. Their impact can be improved by (1) optimising feedback content
Thomas A Willis+22 more
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Understanding the impact of smartphone‐based multimodal information (SMMI) on travellers' P&R (park‐and‐ride) choice behaviour is very limited so far. The purpose of this study is to better understand how SMMI, social network information, and individual ...
Yue Huang+4 more
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