Sentence examples for perceived prevalence of from inspiring English sources

Some of his pronouncements seem profound ("Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully denies fact cannot achieve truth"), and others merely puzzling ("Love poems must be bounced back off a moon"), and still others inane (as when he ascribed a perceived prevalence of male homosexuality in America to the practice of drinking milk shakes).

In a similar manipulation, Schwark, Sandry, Macdonald, and Dolgov (2012) attempted to increase rare target detection rates by providing misleading feedback that increased the perceived prevalence of targets.

These included positive and negative expectancies about alcohol effects, perceived peer and parent alcohol norms, perceived prevalence of adolescent alcohol use, and confidence in ability to refuse alcohol.

Other objectives were to assess midwives' perceived role and experience of raising the issue of domestic violence with their clients, and to assess their perceived prevalence of domestic violence in their current practice.

Studies by social psychologists Stivers and Greeley attempt to document the perceived prevalence of high alcohol consumption amongst the Irish in America.

The balance of the payoff between the two possible behaviors is determined by the perceived risk of infection, which depends on the cost associated to the risk of infection and on the perceived prevalence of infections in the population.

To estimate how often Gwembe's existing health workforce could potentially provide IV treatment in a typical week, the number of health workers in the district is multiplied by their estimated levels of participation and activity, the prevalence of the perceived prevalence to provide that service, and their productivity.

These changes occur on the basis of the difference between the payoffs of the two possible behaviors, the perceived prevalence, the level of the risk threshold and the speed of the imitation process which, in general, is different from the speed of the disease transmission process (as imitation is based on the diffusion of information rather than on physical contacts between individuals).

In fact, the latter depends on the combination of these two opposite phenomena: the increase of new infections and the decline of the perceived prevalence (slowed by the memory mechanism), which was overestimated in the early phases of the epidemic.

The researchers increased one group of observers' perceived prevalence rates by informing them they had missed the target on 20% of correctly rejected trials.

Those with higher stigma placed lower importance on condom use (perhaps because they believed their own sexual partners to be unlike the people they stigmatize) while also holding stronger beliefs about prevalence and concordance (perhaps because they were less well informed, or perhaps because high perceived prevalence resulted in greater feelings of stigma).