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Class, race and ethnicity and information avoidance among cancer survivors [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Information seeking may increase cancer survivors' ability to make decisions and cope with the disease, but many also avoid cancer information after diagnosis.
Gray, S W, Jung, M, McCloud, R F, Viswanath, K   +3 more
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Citizens' Health Information Behaviors During SARS Spread Periods in Taiwan [PDF]

Journal of Library and Information Studies, 2003
The purpose of this study is to investigate the information behaviors of citizens during the periods of SARS spreading in Taiwan. This study is exploratory in nature, and the naturalistic inquiry approach was applied.
Nei-Ching Yeh
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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, Holger Strulik, Timo Trimborn   +2 more
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A modified model for the Lobula Giant Movement Detector and its FPGA implementation [PDF]

, 2010
The Lobula Giant Movement Detector (LGMD) is a wide-field visual neuron located in the Lobula layer of the Locust nervous system. The LGMD increases its firing rate in response to both the velocity of an approaching object and the proximity of this ...
Andrew Hunter, Barron, Barth, Bermudez i Badia, Bertozzi, Bertozzi, Blanchard, Blanchard, Colombo, Connolly, Coombs, Cuadri, Cy Pettit, Galbraith, Hongying Meng, Judge, Kofi Appiah, Lazaros, Longuet Higgins, Mervyn Hobden, Meyer, Nedevschi, Nelson, Nigel Priestley, Okuno, Peter Hobden, Polychronopoulos, Rind, Rind, Rind, Rind, Rind, Rind, Sandini, Santer, Santer, Shigang Yue, Yue, Yue, Yue, Yue   +40 more
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Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance [PDF]

Journal of Health Psychology, 2020
Avoiding information about one’s health can have long-term implications for health and well-being. Two studies examined the relationship between health information avoidance and coping self-efficacy, or a sense that one can effectively cope. In Study 1, coping self-efficacy, but not general self-efficacy, was associated with information avoidance.
Jacqueline Hua, Jennifer L. Howell
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Exploring psychological variables in users’ health information-seeking behavior: A systematic review

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
One of the important factors that play a fundamental role in people’s information behavior is psychological factors. The aim of the current research is to identify the psychological factors that impact users’ health information-seeking behavior through a
Fatemeh Rafieinasab, Shahnaz Khademizadeh, Bahram Peymannia, Roghayeh Ghazavi, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei   +4 more
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Examining affective structure in chickens: valence, intensity, persistence and generalization measured using a conditioned place preference test [PDF]

, 2018
When measuring animals’ valenced behavioural responses to stimuli, the Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) test goes a step further than many approach-based and avoidance-based tests by establishing whether a learned preference for, or aversion to, the ...
Caplen, G, Edgar, J L, Nicol, C J, Paul, E S   +3 more
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Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: a preliminary empirical study

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. People with Type 1 diabetes need to collect data to calculate their own insulin doses, and collect information about potential complications. However, information avoidance may be a barrier to such activities. Method.
Bruce  Ryan, Gemma  Webster
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Obstacle Avoidance of Multi-Sensor Intelligent Robot Based on Road Sign Detection

Sensors, 2021
The existing ultrasonic obstacle avoidance robot only uses an ultrasonic sensor in the process of obstacle avoidance, which can only be avoided according to the fixed obstacle avoidance route. Obstacle avoidance cannot follow additional information.
Jianwei Zhao, Jianhua Fang, Shouzhong Wang, Kun Wang, Chengxiang Liu, Tao Han   +5 more
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Responding to Agency Avoidance of OIRA [PDF]

, 2014
Concerns have recently been raised that US federal agencies may sometimes avoid regulatory review by the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA).
Mendelson, Nina A., Wiener, Jonathan B.
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