BACKGROUND This study was conducted to develop a questionnaire in order to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of the faculty members and students toward plagiarism. METHODS A KAP study was conducted from June to October 2011 enrolling 390 volunteers anonymously (response rate 96%). The questionnaire included the following four parts: (a) general characteristics like gender, acade...

This paper assesses the effect of attitude towards SMS technology and SMS based reminders on blood donation behaviour through a survey using a self-administered questionnaire. Specifically, the study assesses the attitude towards SMS technology and content of SMS based reminders among blood donors of the Malawi Blood Transfusion Service. Furthermore, the paper assesses the relationship between ...

When technological change takes place, employees with positive attitude not only accept new ways of doing work but also become a motivational force to other staff members. Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) intends to make the best use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in administration, servicing and academic departments. Since it is partially launched but before implementatio...

Introduction: Attitude plays a principal role in guiding human behavior toward achieving goals, awareness of its consequences and effective processing of complex information about living environment. The study aim is to assess the attitude of nursing students towards nursing profession in selected nursing institutes Ambala, Haryana. Material and Methods: A non-experimental research approach and...

Scientific misconduct appears to be on the rise. However, an accused researcher may later be exonerated. The present research examines to what extent participants adhere to their attitude toward a researcher who allegedly committed academic misconduct after learning that the researcher is innocent. In two studies, participants in an exoneration and an uncorrected accusation condition learned th...

Verbs like 'believes, ' 'knows, ' 'suspects, ' 'hopes, ' and 'worries'—verbs that, at the level of logical form, can take 10 clauses as their complements—are generally taken to denote intentional attitudes borne to a proposition. For this reason they are known as propositional attitude verbs. It is difficult to construct a semantics and prag-matics adequate to the features of these verbs. Any s...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of airborne and droplet isolation precautions among Dental Health Professionals (DHPs) (dental students, interns, practitioners and auxiliaries) during the outbreak of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), corona virus infection in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted...

Attitudes and attitude change remain core topics of contemporary social psychology. This selective review emphasizes work published from 2005 to 2009. It addresses constructionist and stable-entity conceptualizations of attitude, the distinction between implicit and explicit measures of attitude, and implications of the foregoing for attitude change. Associative and propositional processes in a...

A localist constraint satisfaction neural network model is presented to account for a broad collection of attitude and attitude change phenomena. Activations and weights among units in the recurrent network are used to vary the structure and properties of the attitude and a persuasive message. The model uses Hebbian learning to update weights, allowing it to represent long term changes in attit...

Neural networks are non-linear functional approximators, and natural candidates to be used in nonlinear systems control. Satellite nominal attitude control dynamics is an example of non-linear system where conventional control has been applied sucessfully since the early space age. However, conventional control like the PD (proportional and derivative of the error) can only guarantee robustness...