First, most behavioral models assert that an individual's use of health services is a function of the perceived threat of disease, past use of medical services, and perceived value of action.
Delineating behaviour-population combinations as a function of the different baseline threat and efficacy values allows predictions as to the outcomes of experiments where threatening communications (i.e., fear appeals lacking an efficacy component) are presented to behaviour-population combinations in each quadrant.
Decreasing vision has a complex relationship with HRQoL; in addition to the impact on people's ability to complete their usual daily activities, the loss of visual function combined with the threat of further declines in visual function may affect psychological state or lead to social isolation [ 6].
Marquez said Ling's talent agency had continued to function despite the threat of extradition.
Lastly, perception of the susceptibility and the severity had a weak indirect negative effect on PME compliance through the function of perceived threat (SSCs: -0.05 and -0.03, respectively).
The interspecific competition term α1,2 can thus be viewed as a function of predator threat levels and another potential NCE pathway.
The most recent version of the theory assumes that the motivation to protect oneself from danger is a positive linear function of beliefs that: the threat is severe, one is personally vulnerable, one can perform the coping response (self efficacy) and the coping response is effective (response efficacy) [ 22].
Both postulate that behaviour change is the function of a perceived threat, but only when there is sufficient perceived efficacy.
After the 14th century they lost their monopoly, and, although they continued to contribute to the navy, this function was unimportant by the time of the threat of invasion by the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Cells that define the internal wall of blood vessels, such as the endothelium or the platelets recruited at sites of vessel injury to surrogate the function of the endothelium, indeed sense potential threats to the integrity of vessels and surrounding tissues through an array of pattern recognition receptors (PRR) [ 7, 8].
