This paper examines college students’ motivations to participate in cross-border e-commerce skill training. The study conducted a semi-structured interview with participants of workshops at Huaihua University using the ARCS motivation model. According findings, relevance and attention motivational components significantly attract students training program. In contrast, confidence satisfaction a...

BACKGROUND Exercise is an important therapy to improve well-being after a cancer diagnosis. Accordingly, cancer-exercise programs have been developed to enhance clinical care; however, few programs exist in Canada. Expansion of cancer-exercise programming depends on an understanding of the process of program implementation, as well as enablers and barriers to program success. Gaining knowledge ...

Background It is desirable that (more) children continue swimming after having completed their lessons to preserve skills and water safety, as part of an active, healthy lifestyle. This may be encouraged by stirring children's intrinsic motivation for during lessons. However, it currently unknown how intrinsically motivating are in Western countries. Purpose study examined what extent instructo...

Feral swine distribution and densities are greatest in Texas and related swine disease issues have emerged in a number of fronts. Beyond the standard surveillance protocols, the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Service program has initiated several feral swine projects to identify, contain or eliminate feral swine diseases and pathogens. This praper discusses these projects, the supportive data to qu...

The authors report preliminary results of Brief Supportive Psychotherapy (BSP) in the Beth Israel Brief Psychotherapy Program for a sample with primarily Cluster C Axis II disorders. This study compares 24 patients treated with BSP with 25 patients treated with Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP). STDP was chosen because its confrontational methods contrast dramatically to BSP, which emphas...

Differences between white and ethnic client psychosocial functioning, psychiatric and substance abuse symptomatology, and service utilization costs from a longitudinal clinical trial examining the relative cost effectiveness of three specialized interventions for dual disorders are compared within the study sample and to the existing literature. Ethnic clients comprised 30% of the treated sampl...

Background: Homeopathy is used by 12 to 24% of European cancer patients, representing 40.4% of patients at European integrative cancer centers. In 2011, a Swiss literature review on homeopathy led to homeopathic treatment coverage in the Swiss national health insurance program. Homeopathy for curative pediatric cancer treatment is limited to 7.4% in the Netherlands, but, 76.5% of German parents...