The effects of discriminate message interventions on behavioral intentions to engage in physical activities.

Objective: The authors attempt to show the usefulness of discriminate messages designed to increase college students' intentions to engage in physical activities.

Participants: The authors selected a sample of undergraduate students enrolled in communication courses at a university in the southeastern United States for a baseline online survey (n=683) and an experiment (n=99).

Methods: The authors selected discriminate beliefs with highest regression weights and sizable effect size with behavioral intention to build messages for classroom intervention.

Motivations and self-presentation strategies on Korean-based "Cyworld" weblog format personal homepages.

The main purposes of this study are to find out individuals' motives and interpersonal self-presentation strategies on constructing Korean weblog format personal homepage (e.g., "Cyworld mini-homepage").

Combined effects of noise and mixed solvents exposure on the hearing function among workers in the aviation industry.

This study aims to evaluate the effect of occupational exposure to noise and organic solvents on hearing loss in the aviation industry. The study population comprised 542 male workers, who worked in avionics jobs in Kimhae, Korea, who kept records of work environment evaluations and medical examinations. The Cumulative Exposure Index (CEI) was constructed to assess the lifetime cumulative exposure of the workers, and pure tone audiometry (PTA) data of the workers from their biannual medical surveillance was used to assess hearing loss.