The apparent increase in research misconduct in the scientific literature has caused considerable alarm in both the biomedical (Benos et al., 2005; Smith, 2006) and psychological research communities (Stroebe et al., 2012). An understanding of research misconduct must be informed by the recognition that the norms of science might be quite general (e.g., Merton, 1942; Bronowski, 1965), ambiguous...

Aims: High blood pressure is one of the common main preventable risk factors for many diseases. This study aimed to psychometric properties of the cognitive determinants of hypertension self-management questionnaire among Iranian hypertensive patients based on the Intervention Mapping approach. Instrument & Methods: This psychometric study was conducted in Abadan in 2019. Content Validity Rati...

OBJECTIVE To identify and assess barriers for dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of different cognitive services in Spanish community pharmacies. DESIGN Qualitative study through semi-structured interviews followed by a descriptive analysis. METHOD Two groups of experts related to Spanish community pharmacy were chosen. One with 15 community pharmacists with a relevant profes...

Although a majority of under-represented minority (URM) students begin their postsecondary education at community colleges, little is known about barriers to success and retention for transfer-bound science students. This study focuses on some of the barriers that affect these students' ability to study adequately for a community college "gateway" course. It tests whether instructors' expectati...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively validate the Parent and Adolescent Medication Barriers Scales (PMBS and AMBS) for assessing perceived barriers to medication adherence in adolescent transplant recipients by examining the relations of perceived barriers to medication adherence and clinical outcomes at 18-month follow-up. METHODS Of the 82 adolescent recipients enrolled in the initial cohort, 66 fami...

In response to three surveys of (mostly) cognitive-behavioral practitioners about barriers to treatment success with cognitive-behavioral therapy for patients with generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia (McAleavey, Castonguay, & Goldfried, 2014-this issue; Szkodny, Newman, & Goldfried, 2014-this issue; Wolf & Goldfried, 2014-this issue), the author proposes several meth...

the main objective of this research was to analyze the barriers of implementing the total quality management (tqm) in agricultural faculties in the universities of north west of iran. the kind of research method of the study was an analytical- explanatory one. the statistical population of the study consisted of all the faculty members in agricultural faculties in the universities of north west...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine barriers and motivators of physical activity in older adults. methods & materials: in this cross sectional study 153 older adults were participated through classified randomized clustering method. the questionnaires were completed in face to face interview. descriptive statistics and u mann whitney test were used to analyzing data. results:...

In this paper we construct an information-theoretic model of architectural drawings. This model is then used to quantify and measure the complexities and similarities of drawings. The approach is applied within a linear qualitative shape representation but can be generalized to other types of representation. The descriptive and analytic power of the proposed methods are demonstrated by studying...