Investigating immersion and migration decisions for agent-based modelling: A cautionary tale.

Background: Agent-based modelling provides an appealing methodological choice for simulating human behaviour and decisions. The currently dominant approaches based on static transition rates or unverified assumptions are restrictive, and could be enhanced with insights from cognitive experiments on actual decision making. Here, one common concern is that standard surveys or experiments may lack ecological validity, limiting the extent to which research findings can be generalised to real-life settings.

Mapping secondary data gaps for social simulation modelling: A case study of the journeys of Syrian asylum seekers to Europe.

Simulation models of social processes may require data that are not readily available, have low accuracy, are incomplete or biased. The paper presents a formal process for collating, assessing, selecting, and using secondary data as part of creating, validating, and documenting an agent-based simulation model of a complex social process, in this case, asylum seekers' journeys to Europe. The process starts by creating an inventory of data sources, and the associated metadata, followed by assessing different aspects of data quality according to pre-defined criteria.

Order Set Usage is Associated With Lower Hospital Mortality in Patients With Sepsis.

Unlabelled: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommends standard operating procedures for patients with sepsis. Real-world evidence about sepsis order set implementation is limited.

Objectives: To estimate the effect of sepsis order set usage on hospital mortality.

Preferences and intention of rural adolescents toward seeking help for mental health problems.

Unlabelled: INTRODUCTION In Australia, rural adolescents still face barriers to obtaining professional psychological help due to poor availability and accessibility of services in rural areas when delay in seeking help for mental health problems can lead to poorer treatment outcomes. The aims of this study were to: investigate the preferences and intentions of rural Australian youth towards seeking help for mental health problems; determine predictors of help-seeking intention among rural adolescents; and verify results from previous qualitative research on the barriers to help-seeking in a rural context.

Method: Participants were 201 adolescents recruited from 8 rural schools in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Australian rural adolescents' experiences of accessing psychological help for a mental health problem.

Objective: This study aims to explore Australian rural adolescents' experiences of accessing help for a mental health problem in the context of their rural communities.

Design And Setting: A qualitative research design was used whereby university students who had sought help for a mental health problem during their adolescence were interviewed about their experiences. Interviews were conducted face-to-face at the university.

The mydriatic effect of multiple doses of tropicamide.

Purpose: We investigated whether two drops of 0.5% tropicamide produced a wider pupillary dilation when compared with a single drop and saline control in subjects with dark-colored irides.

Methods: Twelve young adult subjects with dark irides and who were free from ocular disease participated in the study.