Hazard Perception and Demand for Insurance Among Selected Motorcyclists in Lagos, Nigeria [PDF]
This study examines hazard perception effects on the demand for insurance withspecial focus on motorcycle riders in Lagos state. For this purpose, the researchershave been able to examine selected hazard perception determinants and theireffects on the ...
Ajemuningbohun, S. S. (Sunday) +2 more
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Philosophy of perception as a guide to aesthetics [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to argue that it is a promising avenue of research to consider philosophy of perception to be a guide to aesthetics. More precisely, my claim is that many, maybe even most, traditional problems in aesthetics are in fact about ...
Nanay, Bence
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Herbal Medicine Perception and Practice Among Childbearing Mother with Medical Education Background in Bandung: a Preliminary Study [PDF]
Herbal medicine has been widely used among Indonesians as an alternative medicine to chemical based drugs. However, there is still a doubt about its effectiveness and efficiency.
d’Arqom, A. (Annette) +1 more
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An aporia posed by Theophrastus prompts Priscian to describe the process by which perception formally assimilates to its object as a progressive perfection. I present an interpretation of Priscian’s account of perception’s progressive perfection.
Kalderon, Mark Eli
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Terror threat perception and its consequences in contemporary Britain [PDF]
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power
Gaines, SO, Goodwin, R, Wilson, M
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Pain perception and migraine [PDF]
Background: It is well-known that both inter-and intra-individual differences exist in the perception of pain; this is especially true in migraine, an elusive pain disorder of the head.
Coppola, Gianluca +6 more
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Body image perception and body composition: assessment of perception inconsistency by a new index [PDF]
BACKGROUND: A correct perception of the body image, as defined by comparison with actual anthropometric analyses, is crucial to ensure the best possible nutritional status of each individual.
Bramanti, B. +4 more
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Student\u27s Perception and Attitudes Toward Public Health Profession and National Competency Examination [PDF]
One form of quality assurance is convening public health\u27s national competencies examination in academic phase which is conducted before students graduate from university.
Handayani, L. (Lina), Munira, L. (Lafi)
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Toward an ecological aesthetics: music as emergence [PDF]
In this article we intend to suggest some ecological based principles to support the possibility of develop an ecological aesthetics. We consider that an ecological aesthetics is founded in concepts as “direct perception”, “acquisition of affordances and
Oliveira, A. L. G., Oliveira, L. F.
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Short-and medium-term plasticity for speaker adaptation seem to be independent [PDF]
The author wishes to thank James McQueen and Elizabeth Johnson for comments made on an earlier drafts of this paper.In a classic paper, Ladefoged and Broadbent [1] showed that listeners adapt to speakers based on short-term exposure of a single ...
ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception (PSP2005) +1 more
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