introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

The Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) was translated and cross-culturally adapted for China. Its psychometric properties were then evaluated in Chinese-speaking patients with low-back pain and the scales were tested for internal consistency, reproducibility, ceiling-and-floor effects, construct validity and responsiveness. A total of 15 patients were selected for pre-testing and a fur...

Different evaluation approaches have been taken within the field of sonification. This paper introduces methods of the multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA) to the field. Different stakeholders are taken into account. In the area of explorative data analysis, the domain scientists of the field are included in the process in addition to sonification experts. The method allows to compare different s...

Event-related fMRI can access more complex experimental paradigms than traditional block designs. A new problem, however, becomes the data analysis, i.e., the generation of appropriate statistical models. For parametric paradigms where a set of parameters describing task and stimulus can be varied, the number of diierent conditions becomes large. Even if the combinatorics of contrasts between c...

In order to advance the effectiveness of higher education, we concentrated attention on teachers’ classroom behaviours and aimed to develop an inventory for evaluating teacher’s charisma in college settings. This study identified teacher characteristics that are indicators of teaching charisma and then developed a teaching evaluation questionnaire based on these indicators. The exploratory fact...

the present study has been done with the aim of exploring the effects of organizational dynamic capabilities on competitive advantage in consulting firms. to do so, a grounded theory method was used which was suitable regarding the explorative nature of the research. seventeen consulting firms were the research sample. the ceos and members of board of directors of these firms were interviewed. ...

A fundamental problem faced by humans is learning to select motor actions based on noisy sensory information and incomplete knowledge of the world. Recently, a number of authors have asked whether this type of motor learning problem might be very similar to a range of higher-level decision-making problems. If so, participant behaviour on a high-level decision-making task could be predictive of ...