background: primary health care workers (phcw) are the front-liners in any infectious disease outbreaks. the recent outbreak of h1n1 influenza demonstrated that uptake of h1n1 vaccination remained low amongst pchw despite its proven effectiveness. this trend is worrying as phcw are the first point of contact in any emerging outbreak of future influenza epidemic. purpose: to investigate factors ...

Mass media plays an important role in forming body image and makes the significant impact on body size perception in children and adolescents. The aim of present study was to reveal trends in depiction of body image cues in Lithuanian magazines aimed for children and adolescents in relation to changes of real body mass index (BMI) and body size perception of 16-19 y. old girls in the year 2000 ...

Theme hotels are becoming popular because of their fascinating characteristics, within which, theme that feature green practices have become a niche market in the highly competitive hotel industry. Despite past research demonstrating cognitive image created by exerts strong effects on customers’ favorable reactions, how guest appreciation for affects relationship between atmosphere and satisfac...

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

Although researchers have focused on different aspects to explain the success of populist movements, perceptions unfairness continue highly overlooked. Despite difficulty in finding evidence, I intend elucidate growing unfairness, anger it causes, and its impact electoral radical left right movements by investigating spread meritocracy discourse ideological repositioning political parties. argu...

Purpose This study aims to explain how the impact of COVID-19 on human mobility is affected by perceived risk pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Using a statistical analysis and geographic visualization technique, we investigate whether changes in people’s restaurant visiting patterns during vary with their level perception. Findings The perception: tendency increase number visits restaurant...

How do you aggregate the preferences of multiple agents in a fair manner? This is a question that has occupied researchers for several centuries. Suppose we have k voters who each give their preferences on n candidates. How should the candidates be ranked to best represent the input? Marquis de Condorcet [5] showed that there may not exist a “winner”: a candidate who beats all other candidates ...