due to the importance of correct posture for preventing musculoskeletal disorders, the purpose of this study was to evaluate theory of planned behavior in predicting correct body posture in operating room nurses.in this cross-sectional study, participants (n=100) were nurses from five hospitals located in northern iran. participants completed demographic data and theory of planned behavior cons...

Introduction. The aim of the paper is to propose new models of information behaviour that extend the concept beyond simply information seeking to consider other modes of behaviour. The models chiefly explored are those of Wilson and Dervin. Argument A shortcoming of some models of information behaviour is that they present a sequence of stages where it is evident that actual behaviour is not al...

PURPOSE Dekker et al. (2016) propose an updated definition of behavioural medicine. METHOD In this commentary, we discuss how the field and the disciplines involved have changed over time before suggesting small amendments to the proposed definition. RESULTS We suggest that the range of medicine which might be considered 'behavioural' is increasing to encompass virtually all medical practic...

HUBEL and WIESEL (1962) described neurons in the mammalian visual system which respond most ~gorou~y to a contour moving through the visual field in a particnlar direction. With repeated stimulation, the response of such cells diminishes (BARLOW and HILL, 1963; HUBEL and WIESEL, 1965). Adaptation produced by prolonged viewing of uniformly moving contours has also been studied psychophysically w...

We consider tasks where robots act on the target that is visually tracked, such as kicking a ball or pushing an object. We introduce a principled approach to incorporate models of the robot-object interaction into the tracking algorithm to effectively improve the performance of the tracker. We first present the integration of a single robot behavioral model with multiple actions into our dynami...

We consider the case where individuals derive utility from feeling good about themselves and their group, but where the satisfaction of such preferences may come at a cost. In other contexts, what people want to believe is considered irrational, but in our model, these are preferences like any other. Equilibrium subjective beliefs concerning whether one’s group has acted appropriately are endog...

We leverage behavioral economics to explore new approaches to tackling child food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment with >1500 children, we report several key insights. We find that incentives have large influences: in the control, 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the healthy snack to ∼75%. There is some evide...

The ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling was held to consider the questions of what constitutes a "good" behavioral model, and assuming we have such a "good" behavioral model, what issues related to design transformations we should explore. This very international workshop included interesting and highquality papers on both of these topics. The proceedings are available electronically through ...

We analyse the C anonymity protocol under the novel assumption that the attacker has independent knowledge on behavioural patterns of individual users. Under such conditions we study, reformulate and extend Reiter and Rubin’s notion of probable innocence, and provide a new formalisation for it based on the concept of protocol vulnerability. Accordingly, we establish new formal relationship...

A broad theory of scientific method is sketched that has particular relevance for the behavioral sciences. This theory of method assembles a complex of specific strategies and methods that are used in the detection of empirical phenomena and the subsequent construction of explanatory theories. A characterization of the nature of phenomena is given, and the process of their detection is briefly ...