INTRODUCTION In general, laboratory studies have shown low correlations between subjective (ie, self-report) and physiologic (ie, vaginal pulse amplitude) measurements of sexual arousal in women. One explanation for this presumed low concordance is that women might not be attending to their genital responses and/or might be unable to accurately perceive their genital responses. AIM To examine...

Depression in HIV/AIDS patients affects adherence and disease progression and often goes unnoticed. DHIVA is a cross-sectional epidemiologic survey, investigating the prevalence of depression in people living with HIV through use of a validated self-administered scale (CES-D-20), as well and the degree of concordance between the physician's perception and patients' reports. A total of 690 HIV-i...

AIM To assess the efficacy in mortality prediction of a concordance of performance-based (timed 10-foot walk; performance-oriented mobility assessment [POMA]) and self-rated (reported ability to walk across a small room with no help from people or devices; activities of daily living [ADL]) assessments of mobility for Mexican Americans aged 75 years and older. METHODS A longitudinal study of 2...

Relative self-linking and linking " numbers " for pairs of knots and 2-component links in oriented 3-manifolds are defined in terms of intersection invariants of immersed surfaces in 4-manifolds. The resulting concordance invariants generalize the usual ho-mological notion of linking by taking into account the fundamental group of the ambient manifold and often map onto infinitely generated gro...

This study examined the association between the security of attachment and processes influencing the development of emotion regulation in young children. A sample of 73 4 1/2-year-olds and their mothers were observed in an emotion regulation probe involving mild frustration for children, and mothers and children were later independently interviewed about how the child had felt. Fewer than half ...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that self-sampling for hrHPV testing (HPV self-sampling) is highly acceptable to women, increases screening participation rate, and may therefore further reduce cervical cancer incidence. However, it is important to clinically validate HPV self-sampling procedures for screening purposes. OBJECTIVES Clinical validation of combined brush-based self-sampling with GP...

Self-determination theory, like other psychological theories that study eudaimonia, focuses on general processes of growth and self-realization. An aspect tends to be sidelined in the relevant literature is virtue. We propose special focus needs placed moral virtue its development. review different types motivation argue morally virtuous behavior regulated through integrated regulation. describ...

two forage species alfalfa (medicago sativa), and sainfoin (onobrychis viciifolia scop.), at two consecutive growing season (spring and summer), were studied for their chemical composition and in vitro gas production characteristics. data on cumulative gas production (ml gas/g dm) were fitted to the non-sigmoidal model, and for evaluation of model, the concordance correlation coefficient (ccc) ...