In order to cope with a complex and changing environment, industries seek to find new and more efficient ways to conduct their business. According to previous research, many of these change efforts fail to achieve their intended aims. Researchers have therefore sought to identify factors that increase the likelihood of success and found that employees’ attitude towards change is one of the most...

The attitude of nurses and treatment staff is crucial in the treatment of patients who self-harm. However, many patients experience that attitude as negative. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Attitude Towards Deliberate Self-Harm Questionnaire. A total of 261 questionnaires were used to measure validity and reliability. Sensitivity...

Discussion is frequently observed in democratic politics, but change in view is rarely observed. Call this the ‘unchanging minds hypothesis’. I assume that a given belief or desire is not isolated, but, rather, is located in a network structure of attitudes, such that persuasion sufficient to change an attitude in isolation is not sufficient to change the attitude as supported by its network. T...

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background: self-care needs are major problems among stroke patients. nurses can support them through interventions such as education, a change in their attitude and emphasis on their remaining abilities. however, research has shown some weak points in the quality of care given to these patients. so the aim of this study was to improve the nurses’ practice in self-care education to stroke patie...

In this paper, a star tracker attitude estimation procedure with increased robustness and efficiency, using the AIM (Attitude Estimation using optimal Image Matching) algorithm, is presented and validated. The unique approach of the AIM algorithm allows us to introduce a reliable quality check which can be efficiently calculated. Unlike existing validation methods, this quality check not only d...

background and purpose: eating disorders and abnormal attitudes towards eating in adolescents، especially girls، are among fundamental problems of societies. in order to make useful interventions for detecting eating disorders and attitude change at early stages، an appropriate and capable model is required. therefore، the present study was conducted to determine the effect of freire’s educatio...