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Updated beliefs and shaken confidence: evidence from vaccine hesitancy caused by experiencing “COVID arm”

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background Public health depends largely on people’s knowledge, beliefs, or behaviors regarding their health and medical treatments. Although works based on the health belief model have shown that public beliefs about medical treatments affect ...
Taiyo Fukai, Keisuke Kawata, Masaki Nakabayashi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

RaMBat: Accurate identification of medulloblastoma subtypes from diverse data sources with severe batch effects

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
To integrate multiple transcriptomics data with severe batch effects for identifying MB subtypes, we developed a novel and accurate computational method named RaMBat, which leveraged subtype‐specific gene expression ranking information instead of absolute gene expression levels to address batch effects of diverse data sources.
Mengtao Sun, Jieqiong Wang, Shibiao Wan
wiley   +1 more source

Can beliefs about musculoskeletal pain and work be changed at the national level? Prospective evaluation of the Danish national Job & Body campaign

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2018
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates the Danish national Job & Body campaign on beliefs about musculoskeletal pain and work. METHODS: Initiated in 2011, a national campaign in Denmark targeted public sector employees with a mixture of networking activities ...
Lars L Andersen, Niels Geisle, Brian Knudsen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

REIMAGINING RELIGION AND BELIEF IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE [PDF]

Modern Believing, 2020
The renewed visibility of religion and belief at the start of the twenty-first century challenges the expectations of twentieth-century secularisation theory, which predicted the gradual withdrawal of religion from the public sphere. Policymakers are therefore often ill-equipped to accommodate religion within formerly secular paradigms governing the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Overview of molecular signatures of senescence and associated resources: pros and cons

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Cells can enter a stress response state termed cellular senescence that is involved in various diseases and aging. Detecting these cells is challenging due to the lack of universal biomarkers. This review presents the current state of senescence identification, from biomarkers to molecular signatures, compares tools and approaches, and highlights ...
Orestis A. Ntintas, Sylvia Vagena, Pavlos Pantelis, Giorgos Theocharous, Russel Petty, Konstantinos Evangelou, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neighborhood Conditions in a New Destination Context and Latine Youth’s Ethnic–Racial Identity: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?

Behavioral Sciences
This exploratory pilot study examined how Latine adolescents’ ethnic–racial identity (ERI)—specifically, centrality, private regard, and public regard—was shaped by parents’ gender role socialization (GRS) beliefs and perceptions of neighborhood ...
Olivia C. Goldstein, Dawn P. Witherspoon, Mayra Y. Bámaca   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play [PDF]

Psychological game theory can help provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance experimentally.
Heike Hennig-Schmidt
core  

Public perceptions of cancer: a qualitative study of the balance of positive and negative beliefs [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives: Cancer's insidious onset and potentially devastating outcomes have made it one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. However, advances in early diagnosis and treatment mean that death rates are declining, and there are more than 30
Baron-Epel, Beeken, Berman, Braun, Burns, Cameron, Cho, Clarke, de Nooijer, Dein, Epstein, Evans, Festinger, Forbes, Helman, Jain, Kahneman, Katz, Kearney, Keeley, Keeney, Loewenstein, Macdonald, Miles, Mukherjee, Niederpeppe, Peek, Redmond, Rutten, Scanlon, Sontag, Strack, Tversky, United Kingdom Census 2001: Focus on ethnicity and identity data, Wilson   +34 more
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Impact of a senior research thesis on students' perceptions of scientific inquiry in distinct student populations

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
Celeste Suart, Haley L. Zubyk, Michelle Ogrodnik, Caitlin E. Mullarkey, Felicia Vulcu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response
Problem: Many communities refer to sorcery or witchcraft to explain misfortunes such as sickness, death and disability. The effects of these beliefs on public health service delivery have long been overlooked.
Miranda Forsyth, Joanne Taylor, Tambri Housen, Celeste Marsh, Philip Gibbs, William Kipongi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source