BACKGROUND Breast cancer is by far the most frequent cancer of women. It is the second leading cause of death in women worldwide. Approximately one out of eight women develops breast cancer all over the world. Majority of cases of cancer of the breast are detected by women themselves, stressing the importance of breast self-examination. The main objective of this study was to assess predictors ...

The interest of this study is in how science education may contribute to cultivating democratic citizenship a globalised world. drive for joint global action and mutual sense responsibility achieving sustainable future need be balanced with consideration inequalities, accountability differences agency among people around the This raises questions what citizens know, do, feel respond contemporar...

Skin self-examination can help patients who are at high risk for developing melanoma to become more involved in their own surveillance and treatment. This study examined the use of total body photography as an aid to skin self-examination from the patients' perspective. A total of 179 individuals at high risk for developing melanoma who had undergone total body photography (60.5% response rate)...

By leaving their engines idling for long periods, drivers contribute unnecessarily to air pollution, waste fuel, and produce noise and fumes that harm the environment. Railway level crossings are sites where many cars idle, many times a day. In this research, testing two psychological theories of influence, we examine the potential to encourage drivers to switch off their ignition while waiting...

Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc, is a professor in the Lesbian Health Research Center of the Institute for Health and Aging in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco; and Stephanie A. Roberts, MD, is a doctor in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. This study was funded by the San Francisco Bay Area Community of Women’s “A Fund of Our Own” and administered by the Hori...

In ubiquitous surveillance societies, individuals are subjected to observation and control by authorities, institutions, and corporations. Sometimes, citizens contribute their own knowledge and other resources to their own surveillance. In addition, some of "the watched" observe "the watchers" "through" sous-veillant activities, and various forms of self-surveillance for different purposes. How...

I have summarized various articles related to feature extractors used in the field of audio information retrieval/classification. I have also included two experiments with Foote’s method on real musical pieces. Even though the analyses of these experiments are still in progress, this study has helped me in understanding the structural process of Foote's method. It seems that each variable in th...