The best combination of possible climate policy options (mitigation, adaptation and different engineering technologies) to tackle change is unknown. Climate facing a hard decision in answering the question whether technologies should be researched, limitedly deployed or even at global scale. Such bear large epistemic ethical uncertainties their use as well non-use might have severe consequences...

BACKGROUND Both doctors and consumers have engaged in using social media for health purposes. Social media has changed traditional one-to-one communication between doctors and patients to many-to-many communication between doctors and consumers. However, little is known about the effect of doctor-consumer interaction on consumers' health behaviors. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to inves...

QUESTION During the patient-therapist encounter, which communication factors correlate with constructs of therapeutic alliance? DESIGN Systematic review. PARTICIPANTS Clinicians and patients in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings. MEASURES Studies had to investigate the association between communication factors (interaction styles, verbal factors or non-verbal factors) and constr...

Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence suggest that maternal bonding negative affect play a role in supporting infant social-emotional development (Branjerdporn et al., 2017; Kingston 2012; O'Donnell 2014; Van den Bergh 2017). However, the complex pathways likely to exist between these constructs remain unclear, with limited research examining temporal potentially bi-directional associ...

W. W. Riedel's 1970 report of an investigation of personal constructs, using schizophrenics as Ss, encourages criticism of two major aspects of such endeavors. Unwarranted application of the disease model as a paradigm for studying undesirable conduct produces a series of strategy errors: weak explication of linkages between theory and measurements, noninclusion of relevant demographic data, un...

BACKGROUND The endemic state of West Nile virus (WNv) in North America underscores the need to examine mechanisms influencing human self-protective behavior. Based on previous findings and theory, this study is designed to achieve two specific aims. First, the study will examine self-protective behavior for WNv through a hybridized treatment of the Health Belief Model that includes cognitive, a...