Research on stereotypes demonstrates how existing prejudice affects the way we process outgroups. Recent studies have considered whether it is possible to change our implicit social bias by experimentally changing the relationship between the self and outgroups. In a number of experimental studies, participants have been exposed to bodily illusions that induced ownership over a body different t...

Many round-based chaotic image encryption algorithms employ the permutation-diffusion structure. Schemes using this structure have been found insecure when the iteration round is equal to one and the secret permutation of some existing ones can be recovered even a higher iteration round is adopted. In this paper, we present a single round permutation-diffusion chaotic cipher for gray image, in ...

BACKGROUND Malaria in pregnancy is a major public health concern, contributing to roughly 11% of neonatal deaths and to 25% of all maternal deaths in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization has recommended priority interventions for malaria during pregnancy, including use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), but net distribution has shifted recently to a universal coverage paradig...

Forest-owning companies in Sweden have both a goal to yield a good short-term rate of return on their forest and a goal to maintain a high long-term rate of return by maintaining the production of wood-based products. Both these objectives are taken into account in the forest planning process. For the long-term goal, the companies develop strategies formulated in the forest planning system and ...

For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about the control of resources is sol...

Objective—To compare reported safety practices between responders and nonresponders to a safety survey. Design—Cross sectional survey at baseline compared with safety practices reported at subsequent child health surveillance checks. Subjects—Parents of children aged 3–12 months registered with practices participating in a controlled trial of injury prevention in primary care that did, and did ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of pet ownership on cognition in older adults. Previous research has indicated that interactions with pets are associated with improved mental and physical health in humans. We predicted that these benefits of human-pet interactions will extend to expose superior cognitive functioning in cat-owning or dog-owning older adults as comp...

OBJECTIVE To compare reported safety practices between responders and non-responders to a safety survey. DESIGN Cross sectional survey at baseline compared with safety practices reported at subsequent child health surveillance checks. SUBJECTS Parents of children aged 3-12 months registered with practices participating in a controlled trial of injury prevention in primary care that did, and...

BACKGROUND Mobile phones and mobile phone apps have expanded new forms of health professionals' work. There are many studies on the use of mobile phone apps for different specialists. However, there are no studies on the current use of mobile phone apps among general practitioners (GPs). OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate the extent to which GPs own smartphones with apps ...