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    The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...

    Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present...
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    Willingness to Participate in HIV Vaccine Trials among Men Who Have Sex with ...

    Background Recruitment of low- and middle-income country volunteers from most-at-risk populations in HIV vaccine trials is essential to vaccine development. In India, men who...
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    Academic impact of qualitative studies in healthcare: bibliometric analysis.

    Context Although qualitative studies are becoming more appreciated in healthcare, the number of publications of quality studies remains low. Little is known about the...
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    "Righteous minds" in health care: measurement and explanatory value of social...

    : The broad diversity in physicians' judgments on controversial health care topics may reflect differences in religious characteristics, political ideologies, and moral...
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    Beyond a dichotomous view of the concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' focus group d...

    Introduction: The concepts of 'sex' and 'gender' are both of vital importance in medicine and health sciences. However, the meaning of these concepts has seldom been discussed...
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    Institutional review boards' use and understanding of certificates of confide...

    Certificates of Confidentiality, issued by agencies of the U.S. government, are regarded as an important tool for meeting ethical and legal obligations to safeguard research...
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    A Conceptual Muddle: An Empirical Analysis of the Use of ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ i...

    Background: At the same time as there is increasing awareness in medicine of the risks of exaggerating differences between men and women, there is a growing professional...
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    What Users Think about the Differences between Caffeine and Illicit/Prescript...

    : Pharmacological cognitive enhancement (CE) is a topic of increasing public awareness. In the scientific literature on student use of CE as a study aid for academic performance...
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    Bugging Forecast: Unknown, Disliked, Occasionally Intimate. Bed Bugs in Germa...

    Bed bugs appear to be feared more than vector insects and other household pests. The reasons for this exaggerated fear are not fully understood. One hypothesis is that the folk...
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    Evaluation of a Web Portal for Improving Public Access to Evidence-Based Heal...

    Background Using the conceptual framework of shared decision-making and evidence-based practice, a web portal was developed to serve as a generic (non disease-specific)...