INTRODUCTION Measurement errors and questionnaire effects in survey data can have substantial impact on estimates of statistical relationships. Although the customer satisfaction literature contains some discussion of scaling issues (Westbrook and Oliver 1981), statistical models of customer satisfaction have not explicitly recognized measurement issues. This paper enhances the traditional mode...

We describe a new video interface based on a recorded personal navigation history which provides simple mechanisms to quickly find and watch previously viewed intervals, highlight segments of video the user found interesting and support other video tasks such as crowd-sourced video popularity measures and consumer-level video editing. Our novel history interface lets users find previously viewe...

BACKGROUND Nurses' job satisfaction is an important issue because of its impact on the quality of the nursing job. Therefore, it receives a lot of attention in the international nursing literature but insight into the sources of nurses' job satisfaction is yet insufficient, in particular for sources related to organizational structure. OBJECTIVES We contribute by investigating the relationshi...

INTRODUCTION Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and has held since 2008. The present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of Iranian medical universities' faculty members about holding Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. METHODS Th...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of health comparisons on affective (AWB) and cognitive well-being (CWB) in older adults longitudinally. METHODS Data were derived from the third and fourth wave of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) which is a population-based prospective cohort study of community-dwelling subjects in Germany aged 40 and above (with 8,277 observations in fixed effects regressions). ...