Social anxiety is a psychological disorder affected by cognitive aspects of person. The aim of study was to investigate the role of informational, normative, and avoidance identity styles in predicting the variance of social anxiety amongst Iranian medical science students. Using stratified sampling method, one hundred and twenty students were selected from each of the colleges of medicine, pha...

BACKGROUND Overwhelmed family decision makers of chronically critically ill patients must comprehend vital information to make complex treatment decisions that are consistent with patients' preferences. Exploration of informational coping styles of family decision makers may yield evidence for tailored communication practices supporting the psychological and informational needs of family decisi...

in Wilson's disease, and localization of iron in hemochromatosis. On pages 2 and 166, Birks discussed future trends in electron probe mocroanalysis, including lower cost instruments and those that will quantitate elements down to carbon. Such developments would open this microanalytic technique to the realm of the biologist. Birks writes with a crisp style, and with the insight of a worker in t...

Social media sites are considered one of the most important sources data in many fields, such as health, education, and politics. While surveys provide explicit answers to specific questions, posts social have same implicitly occurring text. This research aims develop a method for extracting implicit from large tweet collections, demonstrate this an concern: problem heart attacks. The approach ...

What is the ultimate nature of reality? This paper defends an answer in terms of informational realism (IR). It does so in three stages. First, it is shown that, within the debate about structural realism (SR), epistemic (ESR) and ontic (OSR) structural realism are reconcilable by using the methodology of the levels of abstractions. It follows that OSR is defensible from a structuralist-friendl...

Short abstract In environmental ethics, the precautionary principle states that parties should refrain from actions in the face of scientific uncertainties about serious or irreversible harm to public health or the environment. A similar principle is lacking when judging effects of information technology. Such a principle would be helpful in guiding discussions, and that is why we try to develo...

The paper attempts to provide a conceptual basis for allusions to information processing in discussions about cognition. It de nes the notions of informational medium as a subsystem within a larger dynamical system, the notions of information processing and information management operations, and the notion of informational network a network of informational media. It suggest that situated cogni...