background: dental students’ attendance in community fields prepares them to get involved in oral health promotion programs.  the aim of this study was to evaluate dental students` attitude toward education in community dentistry fields at an iranian dental school. methods: 125 dental students participated in a questionnaire survey.  the questionnaire included questions regarding students’ back...

the purpose of this study is identify the most distinguishing factors of farmers' attitudes and behaviors regarding food security. the research method was survey and correlational research. the population was 25435 farmers of shush, shooshtar and dezful district. 379 farmers were selected based on the table of takman and morgan. finally, 237 questionnaires were collected. data collection w...

People care passionately about some attitudes and consider them deeply important, and they accord no particular significance to other attitudes. In the current paper, we review the state of the psychological literature on attitude importance. We consider the factors that cause people to attach importance to some attitudes but not to others, and we review the cognitive, affective, and behavioral...

The capability of attitude maneuvers and attitude tracking for spacecrafts is required in the current sophisticated space missions. In short, it is to obtain command requirements and attitude orientation after some form of control. With the development of space missions, the ability of rapid and energy-saved large-angle attitude maneuvers is actively expected. And the high requirements for the ...

In the digitized World, information is entangled in a mesh of unstructured web. Finding and retrieving relevant web resources to suit the user's information requirement is a challenge. Moreover, understanding and adapting to cater to different user information requirements is also an uphill task. To achieve the desired outcome, it is needed to have user accepted technology. Therefore, web ...

Title of Dissertation: THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL GENERALIZED GRADED UNFOLDING MODEL FOR ASSESSING CHANGE IN REPEATED MEASURES Weiwei Cui Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed by: Associate Professor James S. Roberts Department of Psychology A multidimensional extension of the generalized graded unfolding model for repeated measures (GGUM-RM) is introduced and applied to analyze attitude change across ...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Although the original vision for artificial intelligence was the simulation of (implicitly human) intelligence, research has gradually shifted to autonomous systems that compete with people. The resultant popular attitude toward artificial intelligence, we argue here, is by turns disdain, grudging acceptance, and fear. That attitude not only limits our work...