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Health Information Avoidance Behavior of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2019 Along with the convenience of receiving health information and the rise of public health consciousness, seeking health information is regarded as a common phenomenon. However, the public is seldom aware of health information avoidance behavior.
Wen-Han Chuang, Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu
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Visual cueing for collision avoidance system [PDF]
, 2012 The modern Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) used in airlines today is the TCAS II. It provides pilots with both Traffic Advisory (TA) and Resolution Advisory (RA) which in turn reduces the incidence of mid-air collisions.
Li, Huiying
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the relationship between cognitive and affective factors and people's information-seeking and -avoiding behaviours in acute risks with a 1,946-sample online survey conducted in February 2020, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Shuguang Zhao, Yiming Liu
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Vision-based obstacle avoidance for a small, Low-cost robot. [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents a vision-based obstacle avoidance algorithm for a small indoor mobile robot built from low-cost, and off-the-shelf electronics.
Marshall, Ian W., Viet, Chau Nguyen
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Journalism and Media, 2022 This paper scrutinizes the phenomenon of issue fatigue and its consequences. Issue fatigue results from overexposure to a news topic that has been on the media’s agenda for an extended period of time.
Christina Schumann
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No Moral Wiggle Room in an Experimental Corruption Game
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent experimental evidence reveals that information is often avoided by decision makers in order to create and exploit a so-called “moral wiggle room,” which reduces the psychological and moral costs associated with selfish behavior.
Loukas Balafoutas +2 more
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Animal protection and information avoidance
, 2023 Social scientists are increasingly interested in information avoidance (IA)—the active decision to refrain from information. However, processing information on animal protection in German livestock systems has not been systematically studied before. We close this gap by conducting a web-based survey in Germany with a focus on abdicating responsibility ...
Richard Völker, Sven Gruener
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Avoiding cancer risk information [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2015 Perceived risk for health problems such as cancer is a central construct in many models of health decision making and a target for behavior change interventions. However, some portion of the population actively avoids cancer risk information. The prevalence of, explanations for, and consequences of such avoidance are not well understood.We examined the
Amber S, Emanuel +6 more
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Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2019 We integrate anticipatory utility and endogenous beliefs about future negative health shocks into a life-cycle model of physiological aging. Individuals care about their future utility derived from their health status and form endogenous beliefs about the probability of a negative health shock.
Johannes Schünemann +2 more
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A Novel Collision Avoidance Logic for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Real-Time Trajectory Planning [PDF]
, 2014 An effective collision avoidance logic should prevent collision without excessive alerting. This requirement would be even more stringent for an automatic collision avoidance logic, which is probably required by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to mitigate ...
Lai, Chi Kin
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