Károly Mirnics,1,2* Zeljka Korade,3* Dominique Arion,1 Orly Lazarov,4 Travis Unger,1 Melissa Macioce,1 Michael Sabatini,1,2 David Terrano,4 Katherine C. Douglass,1 Nina F. Schor,3 and Sangram S. Sisodia4 Departments of 1Psychiatry, 2Neurobiology, and 3Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and 4Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Ch...

This paper presents TrAVis (Tracking Data Analysis and Visualization Tools), a Web-based system, implemented to assist the participants in the learning process in analyzing the tracking data of ComputerMediated Communication activities. While most of the existing systems in the same genre are exclusively dedicated to the teachers and only a few are accessible by students, TrAVis is objectively ...

The purpose of the present research was to translate into Spanish and analyze the psychometricA properties of the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS). The participants were 373 undergraduate students (126 males and 247 females). Factor validity was tested via confirmatory factor analysis. Based on factor loadings and modification indexes, the SIMS was reduced to a 14-item model. This respecific...

This paper demonstrates how time consistency of the Ramsey policy— the optimal …scal and monetary policy under commitment— can be achieved. Each government should leave its successor with a unique maturity structure for the nominal and indexed debt, such that the marginal bene…t of a surprise in‡ation exactly balances the marginal cost. Unlike in earlier papers on the topic, the result holds fo...

BACKGROUND Existing instruments for measuring problematic computer and console gaming and internet use are often lengthy and often based on a pathological perspective. The objective was to develop and present a new and short non-clinical measurement tool for perceived problems related to computer use and gaming among adolescents and to study the association between screen time and perceived pro...

BACKGROUND Given the importance of high-quality healthy food for humans, contamination control is the most important concern for healthy staff. AIM To determine the attitudes of students at Islamic Azad University (Tehran Medical Branch) toward food safety. METHODS This cross-sectional and analytic-descriptive study was conducted on 326 students of Azad University of Medical Sciences in 201...

The object of the study was to translate and validate Reported Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS) into Brazilian Portuguese. A native speaker fluent in English translated RIBS Comprehensibility face validity were assessed through discussions with mental health professionals volunteers recruited from community. Portuguese version questionnaire back-translated by another researcher who developed ori...

This study was conducted to evaluate recipients' perception of service quality, satisfaction, and behavioral intention in home delivered meals program in the US. Out of 398 questionnaires, 265 (66.6%) were collected, and 209 questionnaires (52.5%) were used for the statistical analysis. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with a maximum likelihood was first conducted to estimate the measuremen...

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a stage-specific self-efficacy scale for physical activity with classical test theory (CTT), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response modeling (IRM). Women who enrolled in the Women On The Move study completed a 20-item stage-specific self-efficacy scale developed for this study [n=226, 51.1% African-American a...

BACKGROUND This paper seeks to analyse the psychometric and structural properties of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) in a sample of temporomandibular disorder patients. METHODS The internal consistency of the scales was obtained. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out to test the MPI structure section by section in a sample of 114 temporomandibular disorder patients. RESULTS...