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Contextual control of letter perception [PDF]

Memory & Cognition, 1977
This study examined the hypothesis that the type of list context in which a given item is embedded may affect the way in which it is perceptually processed. In the first experiment, subjects matched four types of test items inserted in four types of lists. The types of test items and the types of lists in which they were embedded were two-letter words,
R J, Petersen, D, Laberge
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Stakeholders' Knowledge, Attitude, and Perceptions on the Control of Taenia solium in Kamuli and Hoima Districts, Uganda

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Taenia (T.) solium is a zoonotic parasite causing three diseases: Taeniasis and cysticercosis in humans and porcine cysticercosis in pigs. Although biomedically, the transmission of the parasite can be easily interrupted at six points along the life ...
Nicholas Ngwili, Nicholas Ngwili, Lian Thomas, Lian Thomas, Samuel Githigia, Nancy Johnson, Raphael Wahome, Kristina Roesel, Kristina Roesel   +8 more
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Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents’ perceptions of stress

Scientific Reports, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding what contributes to individual variability in experiences of stress. Increases in stress related to the pandemic have been especially pronounced in parents, indicating a need for ...
Karen E. Smith, Eileen Graf, Kelly E. Faig, Stephanie J. Dimitroff, Frederica Rockwood, Marc W. Hernandez, Greg J. Norman   +6 more
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What do the parents perceive, and how it affects children’s motor competence? An exploratory study in 5 to 11 years old south Brazilian children

Motricidade, 2023
The present study examines sex differences regarding children's self-perceptions and motor competence (locomotor and object control subtests), parents' perceptions about their boys’ and girls’ competence, and the associations among these variables ...
Aline Martins, Fábio Flôres, Nadia Valentini, Fernando Copetti   +3 more
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Out of control mortality matters: the effect of perceived uncontrollable mortality risk on a health-related decision [PDF]

PeerJ, 2014
Prior evidence from the public health literature suggests that both control beliefs and perceived threats to life are important for health behaviour. Our previously presented theoretical model generated the more specific hypothesis that uncontrollable ...
Gillian V. Pepper, Daniel Nettle
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The CARESSES study protocol: testing and evaluating culturally competent socially assistive robots among older adults residing in long term care homes through a controlled experimental trial [PDF]

, 2020
Background : This article describes the design of an intervention study that focuses on whether and to what degree culturally competent social robots can improve health and well-being related outcomes among older adults residing long-term care homes. The
Battistuzzi, Linda, Castro, Nina, Chong, Nak-Young, Davidson, Rosemary, Hewson, David, Hill, Tetiana, Kamide, Hiroko, Kanoria, Sanjeev, Merton, Len, Nigath, Abiha, Papadopoulos, Chris, Randhawa, Gurch, Sgorbissa, Antonio   +12 more
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High Effective Coverage of Vector Control Interventions in Children After Achieving Low Malaria Transmission in Zanzibar, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
\ud \ud Formerly a high malaria transmission area, Zanzibar is now targeting malaria elimination. A major challenge is to avoid resurgence of malaria, the success of which includes maintaining high effective coverage of vector control interventions such ...
A Bennett, A Bhattarai, A Teklehaimanot, Abdul-Wahiyd H Al-Mafazy, Abdullah S Ali, AD Rodriguez, Anders Björkman, B Pluess, C Lengeler, CF Curtis, CF Curtis, CG Nevill, CM Montgomery, D Filmer, DA Gust, Delér Shakely, EJ Gangarosa, FN Binka, FO Okumu, H Rafatjah, I Kleinschmidt, I Kleinschmidt, J Lines, JA Alaii, JA Alaii, JA Atkinson, JO Yukich, JR Schellenberg, K Hanson, Karin Källander, Kristina Elfving, M Tanner, Max Petzold, ML Mabaso, MW Aregawi, Mwinyi Msellem, N Beer, N Beer, N Chitnis, Netta Beer, PJ Winch, PN Ng'ang'a, PS Levy, RBM, SS Lim, TD Dye, WHO, Y Ye, ZMCP, ZMCP   +49 more
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Health professional students’ perceptions regarding their role in tobacco control: findings from the Global Health Professional Students Survey, Pakistan, 2011 [PDF]

, 2014
Background: An important way of reducing tobacco use is to train the health professional (HP) students to assist in tobacco cessation by educating patients and public.
Aslam, Syeda Kanwal, Shafique, Kashif, Zaheer, Sidra   +2 more
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The association of illness perceptions and God locus of health control with self-care behaviours in patients with type 2 diabetes in Saudi Arabia

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2020
Objective: To investigate the associations between illness perceptions, God locus of health control (GLHC) beliefs, and self-care behaviours in Saudi patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
Mohsen Alyami, Anna Serlachius, Ibrahim Mokhtar, Elizabeth Broadbent   +3 more
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The correlation between children’s own health control and their health perceptions and behaviours, and the associated factors

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2021
The study was conducted as a correlational descriptive study to determine the correlation between children’s own health control and their health perceptions and behaviours, as well as the associated factors.
Yildirim Hilal, Isik Kevser, Gulcek Emral   +2 more
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