Stroke Knowledge Test

The Stroke Knowledge Test (SKT) was developed with the intention of helping people with Stroke. Stroke is a serious and common health problem. The SKT is intended for use by health professionals working in the area of stroke. The test can be used one-on-one or in group settings. It can be used to assess stroke knowledge among survivors, people at risk of stroke, carers and family members, or support staff working with people who have had stroke. The aim of this test is to provide a benchmark against which changes in stroke knowledge and understanding might be mapped. It can also be used to: assist health professionals to tailor their delivery of stroke educations specifically to the needs of a given client; and in research applications

Evolutionary Games and Computer Simulations

The prisoner's dilemma has long been considered the paradigm for studying the emergence of cooperation among selfish individuals. Because of its importance, it has been studied through computer experiments as well as in the laboratory and by analytical means. However, there are important differences between the way a system composed of many interacting elements is simulated by a digital machine and the manner in which it behaves when studied in real experiments. In some instances, these disparities can be marked enough so as to cast doubt on the implications of cellular automata type simulations for the study of cooperation in social systems. In particular, if such a simulation imposes space-time granularity, then its ability to describe the real world may be compromised. Indeed, we show that the results of digital simulations regarding territoriality and cooperation differ greatly when time is discrete as opposed to continuous.Comment: 8 pages. Also available through anonymous ftp from parcftp.xerox.com in the directory /pub/dynamics as pdilemma.p

Disappearing Act(ions): College Perceptions of Climate Change and its Impacts on Tourism

Various locations around the world are considered to be ‘disappearing’ due to the impacts of climate change on their natural attributes. This disappearance raises the question of how travel to those destinations will change in the future, and whether or not awareness of climate change might limit tourism. This study examines the presence of the last-chance tourism theory in college students, and hypothesizes that willingness to travel or engage in environmentally responsible behaviors will not change with increased awareness because of a desire to visit places before they disappear. A survey is used to gauge awareness and concern, as well as willingness to travel after being presented with a fact sheet on climate change and the impacts of tourism. Our results show that a large majority of students would still travel to a threatened location, but that they would also be willing to engage in environmentally responsible behaviors. Even though climate change awareness may not deter tourism, it may still increase concern and allow for the root issue of climate change to be addressed

An experiment to determine the effect of the knowledge of letter names on success in beginning reading

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit