Qualitative simulation interpreted by the use of functional labels to identify significant system behaviour has been shown to be a useful technique for automating design analysis tasks such a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. However, increasing sophistication of the systems to be analysed means that it is becoming increasingly important that the correct timing of these system functions be in...

The role of parenting variables, including strictness/supervision and warmth and involvement, were examined in relation to school achievement and cognitive and behavioural characteristics among an urban sample of 112 Indigenous Australian adolescents. Structural equation modelling procedures tested the predictive role of parenting variables for mastery motivation, self-efficacy, behaviour probl...

Empirical studies into meaning systems surrounding implicit theories of intelligence typically entail two stringent assumptions: that different implicit theories and different effort beliefs represent opposite poles on a single scale, and that implicit theories directly impact the constructs as achievement goals and academic motivations. Through an empirical study based on a large sample of uni...

Research on healthy behaviour such as physical activity and healthy nutrition and their combination is lacking among university students in Arab countries. The current survey assessed healthy nutrition, and moderate/vigorous physical activity (PA) of 6266 students in Egypt, Libya, and Palestine. We computed a nutrition guideline achievement index using WHO recommendation, as well as the achieve...

BACKGROUND Population of South Sinai has suffered from negligence for many years. Solving educational problems of this population is the main concern nowadays. AIM To assess academic achievement in primary school children in South Sinai in relation to intelligence and psychosocial profile. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted on 407 Bedouin and urban stude...

“Self-verification striving” means bringing others to know you for who you really are, which can be difficult during organizational entry. We predict that some individuals place higher value on self-verification striving than others and that these differences affect the organizational entry process. We present results from two samples of 2,673 people from 107 countries to show how self-verifica...

OBJECTIVE To contribute to the growing understanding of U.S. black-white health disparities by examining psychosocial stress as an important contributor to physical health problems. METHODS Data are from the National Survey of American Life, an integrated national household probability sample of White Americans, African Americans, and Caribbean blacks. Regression analysis was used to assess a...

Forming an implementation intention or "if-then plan" promotes the attainment of different types of goals (Gollwitzer, 1999; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006). So far, research on implementation intentions has focused on the initiation of goal striving, whereas the issue of shielding of ongoing goal striving has been largely neglected. In two field experiments concerned with dieting (Study 1) and ath...