background: this study was carried out in opi-agu a tropical semi-urban autonomous community comprising of three villages in enugu state, nigeria, between the months of april and june 2010. it was designed to determine the prevalence of onchocerca volvulus infection and assess the perception of the disease among the inhabitants of this community. methods: a total number of 305 individuals compr...

In different tasks involving action perception, performance has been found to be facilitated when the presented stimuli were produced by the participants themselves rather than by another participant. These results suggest that the same mental representations are accessed during both production and perception. However, with regard to spoken word perception, evidence also suggests that listeners...

Data from 275 individuals, collected at the individual and household levels were analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques to examine relationships between perception of development and observed socio-economic, demographic and wellbeing variables. Perception of development was computed using 6 development-progressive statements administered in a survey, most of which relate to the ...

BACKGROUND The ability to initiate and sustain health enhancing behaviour including physical activity requires appropriate self-perception of such activities. This study was conducted to investigate whether a group of Nigerian urban community dwellers are able to demonstrate a good perception of their physical activity behaviour. METHODOLOGY The study was a cross-sectional survey of 1,153 urb...

BACKGROUND Bangladesh is one among the few countries of the world that provides free medical services at the community level through various public health facilities. It is now evident that, clients' perceived quality of services and their expectations of service standards affect health service utilization to a great extent. The aim of the study was to develop and validate the measures for perc...

This paper examines perceptions of various sources of environmental health risk in one Aboriginal community in Northern Canada to better understand how community members view those risks. The central question addressed is whether there is a pattern of perception, or form of cultural rationality, that informs risk perception generally, or are health risk perceptions created in an ad hoc manner, ...

To begin identifying what behavioral details might be needed to characterize community dynamics and stability, we examined the effect of prey behavioral responses to predation risk on community dynamics and stability. We considered the case of prey altering their foraging effort to trade off energy gain and predation risk. We used state-dependent dynamic optimization to calculate the optimal tr...