Reasoning often occurs under emotionally charged, opinion-laden circumstances. The belief-bias effect indexes the extent to which reasoning is based upon beliefs rather than logical structure. We examined whether emotional content increases this effect, particularly for adults genetically predisposed to be more emotionally reactive. SS/SL(G) carriers of the serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTT...

Background: Academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. This study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at Mashhad Dental School. The practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. Methods: The present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Background The noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients is very important as it dictates the disease prognosis and the indication for therapy, narrowing down the use of the liver biopsy. Standardized scores (FibroTest, FibroMax) and imaging techniques (FibroScan) have been validated in this respect. As for the noninvasive prediction of the sustained viral respons...

background: academic tests are valuable tools for evaluating students’ knowledge and capabilities. this study aimed to assess the content validity offinal examinations at mashhad dental school. the practical purpose of this study was to enhance the quality of written examinations in this school. methods: the present descriptive, cross-sectional study aimed to determine the content validity of f...

Considering that cooperation among enterprises contributes significantly to improve the product performance in a supply chain, this work presents a method for evaluating the enterprise cooperation focused on the exchange of information among firms. Two indexes are used: the intensity, which seeks to measure the amount of information shared; and the extension, which seeks to measure how many sta...

Index of vulnerability is a parameter based on ventricular gradient evaluating the risk of arrhythmia development. The index is derived from isointegral maps of the QT interval. Individual characteristics of isointegral maps are influenced by different factors, which contribute to the relatively high variability among measured parameters of maps in measured subjects. While several electrocardio...

PURPOSE To present and describe a new strategy and protocol for obtaining the Sentences Recognition Indexes (SRI), using the Lists of Phrases in Portuguese test (LPP), considering words in the analysis of responses; to analyze and compare the results using the previous and the new strategies by checking their applicability and suitability. METHODS To consider each word of the sentence, words ...

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the fundamental data model underlying the Semantic Web. Recently, SPARQL has been proposed as W3C standard for querying RDF repositories. As RDF is a graph-based data model, the core problem of evaluating SPARQL queries is matching query graph patterns against the data graph, which is computationally very expensive. We address this problem by indexing...

PURPOSE to observe whether weight reduction through aerobic exercise is more effective with the intervention of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) Acupoint stimulation. METHOD based on the need of this study, we choose 48 young and middle-aged obese patients and randomly divide them into Experimental Group and Control Group with each group consisting of 24 of them. The Control Group has an aerobic e...