This study attempts to examine the role of social support perception and emotional well-being on online information seeking among cancer patients within the context of CHESS, a well-established Interactive Cancer Communication System (ICCS). Factor and regression analyses conducted among 231 breast cancer patients revealed that social support perception and emotional well-being interacted with ...

this comparative study investigates the iranian exporters and the u.s. importers perception of persian carpet branding strategy in the u.s. market. wong and merrilees conceptual model of international branding strategy (2007) is used as the base model. two separate models for these communities are extracted. results indicated that the two models are different together and with the base model du...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy among Chilean women and an increasingly significant public health threat. This study assessed the accuracy of breast cancer risk perception among underserved, Chilean women. METHODS Women aged 50 to 70 years, with no mammogram during the last 2 years, were randomly selected from a community clinic registry in Santiago, Chile...

User interaction is essential to the communication between users and content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. User interaction covers three key elements: an interaction model, an interactive interface and users. The three key elements combine to enable effective interaction to happen. Many studies have investigated different aspects of user interaction. However, there is lack of research i...

Empirical results from both reading and speech perception indicate that stimulus and context information have independent influences on perceptual recognition. Massaro (1989) argued that these data are inconsistent with an interactive activation and competition (IAC) model (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981), and consistent with the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) (Massaro, 1979; 1989). McC...

Among several suggestions for introducing OOP, we compare two approaches: objects-first and objects-later. In a comparative study two courses are taught with one of the approaches. On a regular schedule pupils’ were interviewed regarding their perception of the topics taught. Results indicate differences regarding motivation, perception of difficulty and of relevance of different topics.