Background Awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of Iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. In August 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...

Attitude estimation is often a prerequisite for control of the attitude or orientation of mechanical systems. Current attitude estimation algorithms use coordinate representations for the group of rigid body orientations. All coordinate representations of the group of orientations have associated problems. While minimal coordinate representations exhibit kinematic singularities for large rotati...

Introduction: Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death among adolescents 15 to 19 years of age and is the third leading cause of death among adolescents aged 15 – 24 years in the World. Adolescent suicide has become an issue of increasing concern over the past twenty five years. Objectives: To assess the knowledge & attitude of adolescents towards suicide, to find out relationship...

Employing attitude measures to explain valuation responses in contingent valuation studies has the potential to improve statistical analyses as well as interpretation of response information. In this paper, four types of attitude measures are compared for their ability to provide these benefits in the context of a contingent valuation of an air quality management plan for Sofia, Bulgaria. Findi...

This study tries to identify the determinants of user’s attitude toward apps, intention to use and continual consuming intention. This study holds the two main constructs: (1) user’s intrinsic determinantsvalue, innovativeness, gender, Well-being and superordinate influence on the attitude toward mobile apps, (2) the relation between attitude and app purchase & repurchase intention, and the aff...

This paper describes a path toward the development of theory for using a low noise high frame rate camera as a star tracker for spacecraft attitude estimation. The benefit of using a low noise high frame rate camera is that star data can be sampled at a faster rate while allowing one to measure very dim stars, increasing the number of stars available for attitude estimation. The development of ...

A GPS multi-antenna system consisting of multiple off-the-shelf GPS sensors has been successfully developed and extensively tested in operational marine environments. The advantages to use such a system are the flexibility in the selection of GPS sensors, the cost-effectiveness of the system with the emerging low-cost high performance GPS products and the increased productivity of equipment whi...

8 Received: 18 November 2005 / Accepted: 27 March 2006 9 Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006 1012345 16 17 18 Abstract This paper presents a cross-cultural study on peoples’ negative 19 attitude toward robots. 467 participants from seven different countries filled 20 in the negative attitude towards robots scale survey which consists of 14 21 questions in three clusters: attitude towards the in...

In his now-classic research on inoculation theory, McGuire (1964) demonstrated that exposing people to an initial weak counterattitudinal message could lead to enhanced resistance to a subsequent stronger counterattitudinal message. More recently, research on the valence-framing effect (Bizer & Petty, 2005) demonstrated an alternative way to make attitudes more resistant. Simply framing a perso...

Functional theories of attitudes address why people hold attitudes. The current study had two main goals: to extend the study of attitude functions, and to relate these functions to moral development. One hundred seventy-four participants filled out a revision of Herek's (1987) Attitude Functions Inventory (AFI) and a short form of Rest's (1979) Defining Issues Test (DIT). Factor analysis on th...