PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To elaborate, refine, and validate the professional navigation framework in a Canadian context. RESEARCH APPROACH A two-step approach consisting of a qualitative evaluative design and formal consultations. SETTING Two applications of professional navigators in Quebec and Nova Scotia, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Patient navigators, medical oncology specialists, nurses and oncol...

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is a change in the evaluation of a stimulus after the stimulus co-occurred with affective stimuli. The present research examined whether EC of one stimulus depends also on the co-occurrence of another stimulus with positive or negative stimuli. We paired two target people with affective stimuli. We found that a person who appeared eight times with positive stimuli a...

This study investigates speakers’ assessment of the evaluative polarity of the members of eight antonym pairs, e.g., fast–slow and warm–cold, that are not inherently evaluative, unlike antonyms such as good–bad, ugly–beautiful. The contentful structures foregrounded by fast–slow and warm–cold are SPEED and TEMPERATURE, repectively, but the properties that they evoke may also be profiled against...

The Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF) is one of the most widely used human facial expressions database. Almost a decade after the original validation study (Goeleven et al., 2008), we present subjective rating norms for a sub-set of 210 pictures which depict 70 models (half female) each displaying an angry, happy and neutral facial expressions. Our main goals were to provide an additio...

scientific communications network is presented in, sociology of science. and we can use steven's evaluative bibliometrics to map it. in citation network approach, scientist's communication behavior is predicted through their citation behavior. in this paper, first, concepts such as sociology of science, scientific community, scientific communications and its kinds are described. two k...

Background: A prospective study of a cohort anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed patients 7 years after surgery revealed degenerative radiographic changes in 95% patients, and only 47% were able to return their previous activity level following ACL reconstruction. Aims Objectives: The aims this find the correlation between Semitendinosus graft dimension with respect anthropometry such...

This laboratory study examines the unique influences of superordinate personality dimensions perfectionistic concerns and strivings on change in state anxiety elicited by a social-evaluative stressor. A sample 85 adult participants completed perfectionism measures Big Five inventory. The following day, same attended session, during which they were unexpectedly requested to prepare deliver speec...

Abstract In much of the current academic and public discussion, conspiracy theories are portrayed as a negative phenomenon, linked to misinformation, mistrust in experts institutions, political propaganda. Rather surprisingly, however, philosophers working on this topic have been reluctant incorporate negatively evaluative aspect when either analyzing or engineering concept theory . paper, we p...