Attitudes can be seen as object evaluations stored in memory. Accordingly, attitude structure may be seen as a memory structure with dynamic implications for information processing. In this article, an associative network model for the representation of stored attitudes was assumed, and 2 manifestations of the notion of spreading activation within the confines of such a model were examined. Stu...

It is of great significance for improving the landing stability and adjusting the attitude of equipment base by designing a cardan mechanism in the asteroid lander. In the paper, a cardan mechanism having cushion and attitude adjusting functions is designed for the asteroid lander. The cardan mechanism contains electromagnetic damping, belt transmission and cross-shaft, and it has merits of adj...

Little is currently known about the attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward patient aggression, particularly from an international perspective. Attitudes toward patient aggression of psychiatric nurses from five European countries were investigated using a recently developed and tested attitude scale. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 1,769 student nurses and psychiatric nurses. R...

The paper presents the design of a mini-UAV attitude controller using the backstepping method. Starting from the nonlinear dynamic equations of the mini-UAV, by using the backstepping method, the author of this paper obtained the expressions of the elevator, rudder and aileron deflections, which stabilize the UAV, at each moment, to the desired values of the attitude angles. The attitude contro...

This research is aimed to study whether we will have the same attitude change when we have the same intensity of cognitive or emotional level for attitude. People who have higher involvement will be persuaded by central route and low involvement will be persuaded by peripheral route: the matching effect in attitude change. The present study controlled the intensity of both cognitive and emotion...

For navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), attitude estimation is essential. We present a method for attitude estimation (pitch and roll angle) from aerial fisheye images through horizon detection. The method is based on edge detection and a probabilistic Hough voting scheme. In a flight scenario, there is often some prior knowledge of the vehicle altitude and attitude. We exploit this ...

For the performance evaluation of coal enterprises energy conservation and reduction of pollutant emission, a new attitude index group decision-making method is proposed based on trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Under the condition in which the information of attributes weights and decision maker weights is entirely, the attitude index is introduced firstly. By solving the fuzzy object programming fo...

The genetic basis of individual differences in attitudes was examined in a survey of 195 pairs of monozygotic twins and 141 pairs of same-sex dizygotic twins. A principal components analysis of the 30 attitude items in the survey identified 9 attitude factors, of which 6 yielded significant heritability coefficients. Nonshared environmental factors accounted for the most variance in the attitud...

Torque-saturated control laws for spacecraft attitude control are considered. These control laws require no knowledge of the mass distribution of the spacecraft and thus are inertia-free. We examine two specific problems. In the first problem, the spacecraft has an arbitrary initial attitude and angular velocity, and the objective is to bring the spacecraft to rest with a specified attitude. In...

The role of properties of attitude-relevant knowledge in attitude- behavior consistency was explored in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, attitudes based on behaviorally relevant knowledge predicted behavior better than attitudes based on low-relevance knowledge, especially when people had time to deliberate. Relevance, complexity, and amount of knowledge were investigated in Experiment 2. It was...