Abstract Background Fear of childbirth is reported in 13% fathers, and it may have adverse consequences for the fathers’ health as well their families. To reduce fear expectant an appropriate screening tool needed. Due to lack a valid reliable questionnaire measure childbirth, this study was conducted develop Fathers’ Childbirth Scale evaluate its psychometric properties. Methods This mixed met...

We developed Mixed Reality (MR) content that reconstructs the ancient capital of Asuka-Kyo and applied a fast shading and shadowing method that uses shadowing planes. Subjective evaluation with a head-mounted display showed that viewing this content increased the audience’s knowledge both of Asuka-Kyo and of MR technologies. We also conducted impression evaluation tests with and without shading...

this paper presents a simple methodology for cost estimation of a near optimal heat exchanger network, which comprises mixed materials of construction. intraditional pinch technology and mathematical programming it is usually assumed that all heat exchangers in a network obey a single cost model. this implies that all heat exchangers  in a network are of the same type and use the same materials...

background performance evaluation is essential to quality improvement in healthcare. the current study has identified the potential pros and cons of external healthcare evaluation programs, utilizing them subsequently to look into the merits of a similar case in a developing country.   methods a mixed method study employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniqu...

BACKGROUND Mixed methods research, which is gaining popularity in medical education, provides a new and comprehensive approach for addressing teaching, learning, and evaluation issues in the field. AIM The aim of this article is to provide medical education researchers with 12 tips, based on consideration of current literature in the health professions and in educational research, for conduct...

Objective: In this study, antimicrobial activities of an ethanol extract of Tribulus terrestris aloneand in combination with Capsella bursa-pastoris and Glycyrrhiza glabra were examined in vitro against six pathogens namely Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sanguis, Actinomyces viscosus, Enterococcus faecalis Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli. Materials and methods: Antibacterial ac...

In the previous critique, Saville Kushner has offered a very thoughtful and provocative commentary on our statement about the merits of mixed-method approaches to contemporary program and policy evaluation, published in Volume 7, Issue 1 of Evaluation. I am very honored that Saville took our work seriously enough to read it as carefully as he did. I am also pleased that his commentary so richly...

In this paper, we propose mixed generalized Hermite-Legendre spectral method for partial differential equation set in an infinite strip. We investigate mixed generalized Hermite-Legendre approximation. We propose the new algorithm for various boundary condition problems with variable coefficient. The global convergence of proposed algorithms is proved. Numerical results demonstrate the spectral...

consider the linear system ax=b where the coefficient matrix a is an m-matrix. in the present work, it is proved that the rate of convergence of the gauss-seidel method is faster than the mixed-type splitting and aor (sor) iterative methods for solving m-matrix linear systems. furthermore, we improve the rate of convergence of the mixed-type splitting iterative method by applying a precondition...

consider the linear system ax=b where the coefficient matrix a is an m-matrix. in the present work, it is proved that the rate of convergence of the gauss-seidel method is faster than the mixed-type splitting and aor (sor) iterative methods for solving m-matrix linear systems. furthermore, we improve the rate of convergence of the mixed-type splitting iterative method by applying a precondition...