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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"behavioural sciences"”.
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Developing consumption feedback principles for monthly utility bills informed by behavioural economics: evidence from controlled experiments
… simpler and better feedback informed by applied behavioural sciences. Two sets of controlled experiments were conducted with over 1,500 subjects to identify bill design strategies that could overcome two major barriers to effective consumption feedback: • the complexity of the utility bill, …
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Using Design Thinking to Facilitate Information Technology Service
… from design, organizational, psychological, and behavioural sciences, a design intervention framework was proposed to complement (augment) current practices, to facilitate the challenges faced during implementations. The conceptualized framework addressed the influence and properties of project …
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A cognitive human behaviour model for pedestrian behaviour simulation
… reality simulation, human psychology and human behavioural sciences. From this survey, theories suitable for this thesis’ cause have been identified and combined for the proposed Cognitive Pedestrian Agent Framework (CPAF). The proposed framework contains a sophisticated human decision making …
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Prospect Theory in the Housing Market
Loss aversion, a behavioural bias on people’s asymmetric attitudes towards losses and gains, is a core concept in prospect theory. Similar to behavioural sciences in general, loss aversion has been widely applied in various research areas. However, evidence of this concept in residential real …
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Barriers to gender-based violence care: a qualitative study of migrant and refugee women
South Africa has long served as a destination for migrants from sub-Saharan African nations, with a growing proportion of this population being women in recent years. Female migrants experience an increased risk for gender-based violence (GBV) during the migratory journey and upon resettlement. …
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Factors that influence adolescents condom use decision-making in the Western Cape, South Africa
This study explores factors that influence condom use decision-making of adolescents from two schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data generated from 16 individual semi-structured interviews. When exploring the factors that influence adolescent’s …
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Perceptions and Practices of Nurses with Respect to Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Accessing Health Care Services In Musina, Limpopo, South Africa
To achieve the goal of universal health coverage, no one should be left behind. To achieve this goal, refugees and asylum seekers should be prioritised due to their heightened risks. This would improve health outcomes and assist in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 2030. In the …
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An exploration of the health facility staff's perspectives on patients who disengage from HIV care: A qualitative analysis from Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
This project will be completed as a requirement for the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Cape Town. This study is linked to an already existing project of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which is called the Welcome Service. The Welcome Service focuses on addressing barriers …
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Fertility Desires and Fertility Control: Young Women's Contraceptive decision-making in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Early fertility remains a public health concern in South Africa, with teenage pregnancy rates remaining high, and more significantly among black adolescent girls of low socioeconomic status. This indicates the unmet need of contraception for adolescent girls. Contraceptive use and non-use by young …
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Ezobudoda (manhood things) a qualitative study of HIV-positive adolescent boys and young mens health practices in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
Men are less vulnerable to HIV acquisition than women, but have poorer HIV-related outcomes. They access HIV services less often and later, and are more likely to die while on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The adolescent HIV epidemic presents further challenges, and AIDS-related illness is the …
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The historical and current roles of Street Committees in strengthening health services in Gugulethu
Communities are an important part of health systems as they assist in the monitoring of health service quality and providing the end users with a voice. This is particularly important in South Africa where there is a quadruple burden of disease, and a history of social injustice which continues to …
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Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments : people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance
… research-techniques from the Social and Behavioural Sciences may be applied to investigations of various man-environment relationships and specifically of the contributions of Architecture in those relationships, - in this case within dwelling-environments. The other aspect of it, is an …
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Medical education and the importance of teaching medical teachers about teaching
… educational problem as to how the burgeoning sciences can be balanced with the present call for the return to the humanities. Medical schools are being required, through their teaching and learning methodologies, to encourage the qualification of empathetic graduates with generalist (holistic) …
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Examining the characteristics associated with the career paths of professional women's handball players
… (sport) psychology, sociology, anthropology, behavioural sciences). I have identified the following research problems: On the one hand, the athlete's career is finite (short); the difficulties of transition can be facilitated by a supportive environment, which is often lacking (when the bubble …
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Engagement of Youth in Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Laos
… A review of the literature identified that behavioural sciences has been applied to understand entrepreneurial career decisions, and the motivational antecedents of the intention to choose entrepreneurial careers. By consolidating the dominant frameworks for career decision making in the …
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Refining Behavioural Theories and Rules in Agent-Based Models to Enhance Dynamic Simulation of Urban Change
… quantitative factors rather than taking various behavioural theories and rules into sufficient account. There is a need to better understand the ranges of behaviours and theories, and the associated patterns and processes. Also, the current approach that relies on the mathematical realm of …