Risk of blood borne virus among injecting drug users is high and is a significant challenge for public health efforts. Mindlessness/mindfulness theory provides an alternative lens through which to understand social phenomena. Interview transcripts of 32 current and former injectors were explored for evidence of mindless injecting (or automatic behaviour). Mindlessness in injecting practices can...

A critical requirement of direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug promotion on the Internet is the concept of fair balance. This means that prescription drug Web sites should provide an accurate, balanced portrayal of the risks relative to the benefits of using prescription medications. However, one of the most pervasive findings in consumer research is that risk perceptions are often not aligned with th...

By appending some bits to the original signature, a trapdoor hash function converts any signature scheme into secure signature scheme with very efficient online computation. Many of them have been proposed. The paper presents three new trapdoor hash functions with promotion in offline computation, online computation, appended bits, and the size of trapdoor key (but with longer public key). Whil...

Evaluation of teaching effectiveness is considered a critical element in determining whether or not faculty members are retained at higher education institutions; academic milestones such as tenure and promotion often require documentation of the quality of faculty teaching. As methods of assessing teaching effectiveness evolve, concerns about the equity of alternative methods arise. This study...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the physical activity (PA) promotion practices, beliefs, and barriers of Australasian oncology nurses and gain preliminary insight into how PA promotion practices may be affected by the demographics of the nurses.
. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey.
. SETTING Australia and New Zealand.
. SAMPLE 119 registered oncology nurses.
. METHODS Self-reported online su...