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University students were surveyed to learn what they know about virtual realities. The two studies were administered with a half-year interval in which the students (N=90, specializing either in mathematics and science, or in social science and humanities) were asked to name particul...
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PMID: 21685638
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Nursing Research (60)1 2011
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Latent transition analysis is a method of modeling change over time in categorical variables. It has been used in the social sciences for many years, but not in nursing research.
The purposes of this study were to illustrate the utility of latent transition analysis for nursing research by presentin...
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PMID: 21127448
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Ugeskrift for laeger (172)50 2010
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The distribution of power in the Danish health care sector is debated. It is often claimed that persons with a social science background have taken over the most powerful positions. The aim of this study was to test whether doctors have lost their power to people with a background in economic, polit...
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PMID: 21156108
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (368)1925 2010
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We describe three applications of e-social science that promote social simulation modelling, data management and visualization. An example is outlined in which the three components are brought together in a transport planning context. We discuss opportunities and benefits for the combination of thes...
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PMID: 20643677
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Theory in Biosciences (129)2-3 2010
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We explore the epistemological and ontological assumptions that have been made to make political science "scientific." We show how political science has generally adopted an ontologically reductionist philosophy of science derived from Newtonian physics and mechanics. This mechanical framework has e...
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PMID: 20571938
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Pharmaceutical practice in France is evolving as presented in the legislation reforming hospitals and regarding patients, health and the territories. Hence, the pharmaceutical "territory" has been reconfigured and requires evolving ideas about pharmaceutical training. At the heart of this paper is t...
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PMID: 20637353
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We discuss the core themes mobilized both in support and opposition to the scenario. While Israeli and Austrian respondents held similar general attitudes (about half were in favour of legalizing Belated Twins, while about a third opposed it), they drew partly on different arguments to arrive at the...
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PMID: 20977182
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Medical Education (44)7 2010
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British Journal of Social Psychology (49)Pt 2 2010
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It is theorized that many moral emotions are triggered when a mechanism for (parental) care is activated by perceived vulnerability, and changes in the care object's well-being are subsequently evaluated and causally attributed. Participants reported different moral emotions (tenderness, concern, sy...
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PMID: 20030963
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We highlight the potential contribution of naturally occurring data as an adjunct to researcher-elicited data. Thus, when exploring particular phenomena, a DGTM approach may address the potentially under-developed symbolic interaction tenet of language.
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PMID: 19962698
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An interval estimation procedure is outlined that can be used for evaluating the proportion of observed variance in a response variable, which is due to the third level of nesting in a hierarchical design. The approach is also useful when it is of concern to address the necessity of including a thir...
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PMID: 19793411
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We explore the effects of non-normality and heteroscedasticity when testing the hypothesis that regression lines associated with two independent groups have the same slopes. Our results indicate that some recently proposed methods that allow heteroscedasticity and perform well in extant simulation s...
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PMID: 19807946
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This paper considers finite mixtures of structural equation models with non-linear effects of exogenous latent variables and non-recursive relations among endogenous latent variables. A Bayesian approach is developed to analyse this kind of model. In order to cope with the label switching problem, t...
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PMID: 19719904
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Academic Medicine (85)5 2010
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The authors explore issues surrounding digital repositories with the twofold intention of clarifying their creation, structure, content, and use, and considering the implementation of a global digital repository for medical education research data sets-an online site where medical education research...
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PMID: 20520037
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Ecological Applications (20)3 2010
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Key attributes of the social research contributions on indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK), local ecological knowledge (LEK), and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) are analyzed using the most frequently cited literature generated by the "ISI Web of Knowledge" and "Google Scholar" search engin...
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PMID: 20437971
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Canadian Journal of Public Health (101 Suppl 1) 2010
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Small workplaces have particular injury risks and are enduringly difficult for the occupational health and safety (OHS) system to reach. This paper puts forward an "upstream" perspective on OHS in small workplaces that moves beyond the attributes of the workplace and those who work there. The paper...
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PMID: 20629444
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Medical Teacher (31)10 2009
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In general, the HIM program was evaluated as moderate or above moderate by 60-80% of the students. Content and thematic analysis of student reports showed that there was a rich variety in individual definitions, descriptions of causal relationships and suggestions for possible solutions about themes...
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PMID: 19877855
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Medical Teacher (31)9 2009
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We illustrate how traditional biomedical sciences can be integrated with clinical sciences in a comprehensive foundational curriculum following curricular design features and teaching methods based on learning principles from cognitive psychology and education.
Multiple planning teams of faculty and...
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PMID: 19811186
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This essay examines how post-World War II Americans linked their understanding of domestic society and international affairs by using a common lens of psychological and characterological analysis for both. That lens was fashioned by social scientists and developed to study conformity and its opposit...
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PMID: 19653489
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We highlight that important theoretical predictions in social choice theory change dramatically under even minute violations of standard assumptions. Empirical data violate those critical assumptions. We argue that the nature of preference distributions in electorates is ultimately an empirical ques...
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PMID: 19073478
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Published literature on the role of BSS in medical training is scanty and largely from developed countries. Although the need for including BSS in medical education was recognized more than 30 years ago, only little progress has been made in improving the quality and quantity of behavioural sciences...
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PMID: 19553873
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The article reviews academic literature in the social sciences and health on the problems and challenges of STD/AIDS prevention in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Based on a bibliographic survey of the SciELO, PubMed, and Sociological Abstracts databases between 1997 and 2007, the research un...
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PMID: 19300857
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(1) Community-based organizations, public health departments, and direct service health care providers tend to dominate public health collaboratives. (2) Three dimensions for assessing the value of a partner are power and influence, active involvement, and resources. (3) Two important factors in dev...
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PMID: 19291891
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EMBO Reports (10)2 2009
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Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova / Ministerstvo zdravookhraneniia i meditsinskoi promyshlennosti Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Vserossiiskoe obshchestvo nevrologov [i] Vserossiiskoe obshchestvo psikhiatrov (109)6 2009
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This article details the experimental research on frame effects that provides quantitative evidence that some types of frames have a greater ability to move and affect policy support than others. This method is particularly useful in showing the magnitude by which exposure to alternative ways of thin...
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PMID: 20082435
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This article reviews the nature and use of the journal impact factor and other common bibliometric measures for assessing research in the sciences and social sciences based on data compiled by Thomson Reuters. Journal impact factors are frequently misused to assess the influence of individual papers...
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PMID: 19219526
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Nursing Economics (27)6 2009
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Change theory concepts--drivers, vision, current and future states, and social buy-in--provide some analytical leverage in understanding current reform challenges. Various contentious issues in the health care reform battle have long served to polarize stakeholders and differentiate conservative and...
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PMID: 20050495
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Resilience research has gained increased scientific interest and political currency over the last ten years.
To set this volume in the wider context of scholarly debate conducted in previous special theme issue and/or special section publications of refereed journals...
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PMID: 21448375
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Structuring their daily life is an important problem for many individuals with chronic mental disorder. Therefore day structuring services are considered as constituent parts of modern mental healthcare systems. In this paper the theoretical and empirical basis for the implementation and evaluation...
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PMID: 19085403
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Social Science Research (37)4 2008
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This study uses survey data to test the correlation between empathic concern and 14 different prosocial behaviors, including informal help to individuals and formal helping through institutions. Statistically significant correlations were found for 10 behaviors, but substantively meaningful correlat...
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PMID: 19227702
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Social Science Research (37)4 2008
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This study assesses the trends and differentials in length of quality life in the U.S. population as measured by happy life expectancy in 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. The analysis combines age-specific prevalence rates of subjective well-being from a large nationally representative survey and life ta...
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PMID: 19227700
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Social Science Research (37)4 2008
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This study tests the cumulative disadvantage hypothesis by examining the age-varying relationships between education, health risks, and disease onset and survival duration. Results based on 20 years of longitudinal data suggest that education is related to both the individual and accumulated number...
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PMID: 19227701
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We study the relaxation response of a social system after endogenous and exogenous bursts of activity using the time series of daily views for nearly 5 million videos on YouTube. We find that most activity can be described accurately as a Poisson process. However, we also find hundreds of thousands...
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PMID: 18824681
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Health & Place (14)3 2008
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The past decade has witnessed the rapid expansion of the field of urban health, including the establishment of an international society of urban health and annual conference, the publication of several books and the growing popularity of a peer-reviewed journal on urban health. Relat...
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PMID: 18006358
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We suggest here that greater investment in the study of macrosocial determinants has the potential to make a significant and unique contribution to the greater public health agenda and should be a prominent aspect of social epidemiologic inquiry in the coming decades....
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PMID: 18701897
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Our investigations of brain-behavior relationships and their impact on psychosocial functioning have attempted to expand upon and chart a somewhat different (subtypal) course for this area of study. One clearly evident conclusion of these efforts is that neuropsychology is a psychosocial science. So...
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PMID: 18608661
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine (35)2 Suppl 2008
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Over the past two decades a variety of national and international efforts has sought to bring together health and social scientists to address complex health issues. This paper reviews how the notion of transdisciplinary research has emerged; discusses research programs that have successfully traver...
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PMID: 18619403
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine (35)2 Suppl 2008
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Fueled by the rapid pace of discovery, humankind's ability to understand the ultimate causes of preventable common disease burdens and to identify solutions is now reaching a revolutionary tipping point. Achieving optimal health and well-being for all members of society lies as much in the understan...
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PMID: 18619402
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We explore associations between patient and therapist global retrospective outcome evaluations (ROE), and pre-post-treatment changes on the Symptom Check List 90 Revised (SCL-90-R) and non-symptomatic focus of therapy. There were no significant associations between ROE, diagnoses and demographic var...
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PMID: 18466190
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Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (12)3 2008
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We compare and contrast a selection of contemporary philosophical theories of autonomy with social scientific perspectives on chronic illness, particularly models of disability and symbolic interactionism. The philosophical theories mainly depart from a positive conceptualization of autonomy, which...
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PMID: 18579631
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