This research was designed to explore science-fiction and fantasy (SFF) posters, specifically those related to films and television shows, from the perspective of their owners, examining their potential as sources of social and cultural significance...
The quality of posters at pharmacy conferences can vary. We created a mixed-approach rubric (MAR) for poster quality. Evidence from multiple sources (systematic review, further analysis of rater scores, verbal feedback from raters) showed the need to...
This study examines the process of reading polycode advertising posters, focusing in particular on the effect of a pun in the headline. The pun, or a sequence of lexical items that can be perceived as ambiguous, is contained in the headline and diffe...
Film posters serve as front-end visual communication media that shape viewers’ initial judgments of film genre, emotional tone, and viewing appeal. However, whether the optimal overall color configuration follows a universal rule or varies acro...
22 October 2021
(1) Background: Numerous educational interventions have been conducted to improve hand hygiene (HH) compliance and effectiveness among nursing students, with mixed results. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of posters as a teaching tool and fa...
We developed a simple, interactive poster design. Via brief infographics and simple numbered stickers, participants were able to provide input about their top three areas of importance regarding a specific topic (i.e., promoting natural behavior in g...
Unnecessary antibiotic prescribing contributes to Antimicrobial Resistance posing a major public health risk. Estimates suggest as many as half of antibiotics prescribed for respiratory infections may be unnecessary. We conducted a three-armed unblin...
The Spanish democratic transition inaugurated in 1977 an uninterrupted electoral cycle in which the campaign poster became the foremost propagandistic medium and the most immediate expression of the political culture of each moment. No longitudinal a...
Current applications of the Internet of Everything (IOE) tend to ignore the components of people, processes, and data. In the current study, we propose applying the IOE to design, the core of which comprises people, processes, and data. Evidence of t...
The design of commercial posters must effectively capture consumer attention. To scientifically evaluate the impact of different design formats on attention-grabbing efficiency, three advertising posters were selected. Corresponding dynamic and stati...
This study assessed the preferences of fourth-year student pharmacists for an in-person versus virtual pharmacy research poster session. An electronic survey was administered to all fourth-year student pharmacists enrolled in a research project cours...
17 April 2022
Deer are keystone hosts for adult ticks and have enabled the spread of tick distributions. The ‘4-Poster’ deer bait station was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture to control ticks feeding on free-ranging deer. Althou...
11 December 2019
Background: Most research on hand hygiene compliance in community settings indicates that compliance is poor. It is not conclusive as to whether poster interventions are effective at improving compliance. Methods: An independent, self-designed poster...
14 March 2017
Educational posters are used to enhance knowledge, attitudes and self-confidence of patients. Little is known on their effectiveness for educating health care professionals. As these professionals may play an important role in suicide prevention, the...
Frequently, one of the goals of Graphic Design (gd) is discovering disruptive visual solutions that stand out and attract people’s attention. However, due to the increasing democratisation of gd, graphic designers tend to adopt design trends, l...
This exploratory eye-tracking study investigates how the emotional content of food bank advertisements influences food donor perception and visual attention. It does so by addressing a gap in the literature on eye-tracking applications in food donati...
Diverse elements of anti-littering campaigns may be effective at addressing different causes of littering. Therefore, a complementary approach combining various elements is needed to ensure the behavioral effectiveness of corresponding campaigns. The...
The use of augmented reality (AR) is the only meaningful way towards the creation and integration of information into a cultural (and not only) analogue leaflet, flyer and poster, which by their nature have limited informational material. The enrichm...
What do god posters circulating online tell us about the practice of popular Hinduism in the age of digital mediatization? The article seeks to address the question by exploring images and god posters dedicated to the planetary deity Shani on Web 2.0...
Blended learning is receiving more and more attention due to social changes, technological advances, and the increasing internationality of studies, and research needs to be carried out to explore the possibilities this instruction modality offers to...
The layout analysis of elements is indispensable in graphic design, as effective layout design not only facilitates the delivery of visual information but also enhances the overall esthetic appeal to the audience. The combination of deep learning and...
The use of religious symbols in commercial advertising is not only a modern phenomenon. The research presented here traces its existence from the start of the last century through the analysis of a broad sample of advertising posters that circulated...
The disinfection of deteriogenic microorganisms and the removal of induced chromatic alterations in artworks are still open challenges in the field of conservation. For this purpose, a new alcoholic hydrogel was tested to remove an extensive fungal a...
Food-related procedures are a part of rehabilitation interventions for dysphagia. However, studies show that professional-caregiver communication is often lacking in dysphagia, risking caregivers’ knowledge, understanding, and practice of those...
Today, eye trackers are extensively used in studying human cognition. However, it is hard to analyze and interpret eye movement data from the cognitive comprehension perspective of poster reading. To find quantitative links between eye movements and...
Due to the impact worldwide of COVID-19, the 12th European ISNS meeting planned to be live in Luxembourg in November 2020 became Luxembourg Going Virtual in November 2021. The conference theme derived from the geographic location of Luxembourg was re...
Recognizing facial emotions automatically from images/videos (FER) still represents a difficult problem for emotion computing, mainly due to variations in the face pose, lighting, occlusion, facial features, and expression intensity in the wild. Rece...
The event “Poster Sunset Session” began in 2017 at the School of Health of the University of Algarve (ESSUAlg), bringing the premise that scientific knowledge depends on research and critical analysis and that the exchange of ideas and in...
This Abstract Book contains abstracts of oral and poster presentations of the 13th ISNS European Regional Meeting in Luxembourg, held from 23 to 26 March 2025.
Background: The quality of national society conferences is often assessed indirectly by analyzing the journal publication rates for the abstracts presented. Studies have reported rates from 67.5% to 76.7% for oral abstracts and 23.2% to 55.8% for pos...
Facial expression recognition (FER) serves as a pivotal approach for understanding human affective states and behavioral intentions, forming the fundamental basis for achieving natural interaction in affective computing systems. To address the limita...
As the anti-vaccination movement is spreading around the world, this paper addresses the ever more urgent need for health professionals, communicators and policy-makers to grasp the nature of vaccine mis/disinformation on social media. A one-by-one c...
A substantial proportion of women who undergo BRCA1/2 testing learn that they carry a variant of uncertain significance[...]
The comprehensive assessment of inherited mutations in cancer susceptibility genes helps to optimize clinical decision-making [...]
Objectives: It is estimated that 1–2% of individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) ancestry carry one of three pathogenic founder mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Targeted testing for these mutations (BRCA1 187delAG and 5385insC, and BRCA2 6174delT) is there...
The most common bacterial isolates in dogs with pyothorax include mixed anaerobes, Enterobacteriaceae (especially Escherichia coli), Pasteurella spp., Streptococcus spp., and Staphylococcus spp. A fluoroquinolone with amoxicillin (±clavulanate...
Cyberattacks make the news daily. Systems must be appropriately secured. Cybersecurity risk analyses are more than ever necessary, but… traveling and gathering in a room to discuss the topic has become difficult due to the COVID, whilst having a cybe...
Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) are a distinct class of eukaryotic cell-surface proteins characterized by a glycolipid anchor at their C-terminus. They display unique biophysical properties and play important roles in human d...
The uptake of Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn into the leaves and roots of Datura stramonium and Hyoscyamus niger. [...]
The kinds of interactions taking place in an online personal finance forum and the sentiments expressed in its posts may influence the diffusion and usefulness of those forums. We explore a set of major threads on a personal finance forum to assess t...
8 February 2022
Physical activity (PA) benefits health, and intensive environmental modifications can increase children’s PA. Research has not yet addressed if subtle environmental cues, such as posters depicting PA, increase child PA. In the current study, it...
Strategic communication can motivate target audiences to take conservation action. Yet, whether audiences are motivated by more information or more influential visuals is unclear. Using online surveys, we compared different visual communication strat...
The French Society of Toxinology (SFET) organized its 27th annual meeting on 9–10 December 2021 as a virtual meeting (e-RT27). The central theme of this meeting was “Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?”, emphasizing the latest findings on...
On behalf of the societies mentioned above, we selected 86 abstracts selected, 15 of which were oral presentations and 71 of which were ePosters, including 33 abstracts for the ePoster Flash presentation Session. We congratulate all the presenters on...
6 February 2020
Internet forums are an attractive source of health-related information. We aimed to investigate threads in the gastroenterological section of a popular Polish medical forum for anonymous users. We characterised the following aspects in threads: the m...
19 August 2020
Background Public safety personnel (PSP) experience high rates of mental health disorders but have limited access to treatment. To improve treatment access, there is a growing interest in offering internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT)...
The Group for the Promotion of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Academia (GP2A) held its 32nd annual conference in August 2024 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. There were 8 keynote presentations, 12 early career researcher oral presentations, and 3...
The French Society of Toxinology (SFET), which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, organized its 29th annual Meeting (RT29), shared by 87 participants, on 30 November–1 December 2023. The RT29 main theme, “Toxins: From the Wild to...
The Group for the Promotion of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Academia (GP2A) held its 31st annual conference in August 2023 at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. There were 8 keynote presentations, 10 early career r...
On behalf of the SNS, we are pleased to present the Abstracts of the Annual Meeting which is held at the Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland, from 6–7 June 2024. In total, 83 abstracts were selected, whereof we include 8 abstracts for the Ple...
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