Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one’s own judgment of one’s status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy– well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between isokinetic strengths, subjective knee scores, and functional performance in patients with an ACL-reconstructed knee. Methods: Fifty-five male patients between the ages of 16~53 years were enrolled in this study. At the time of testing, a mean 19.7 months had elapsed since the patients had received ACL reconstruction. Muscle streng...

OBJECTIVES To assess quality of life (QoL) in a group of young adults born in 1980-1982 with very low birth weight (VLBW) and to compare this with a reference group and a similar cohort born eight years earlier. DESIGN Telephone interview using a fully structured questionnaire. SETTING Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS VLBW group (n = 92, 90% participation rate), LBW group (n...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common condition associated with obesity and with reproductive and metabolic dysfunction. Abnormalities in appetite regulation in PCOS patients may contribute to difficulties in weight management. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine appetite, appetite hormones, and ad libitum food consumption before and after weight loss in overweight women with and ...

The objective of this study is to compare radiation doses given to ovarian cancer patients by different computed tomographies (CTs) and to evaluate association between doses and subjective and objective image quality.CT examinations included were performed either on a 16-slice CT, equipped with automatic z-axis tube current modulation, or on a 64-slice CT, equipped with z-axis, xy-axis modulati...

introduction:although several treatment approaches have been proposed for tinnitus, there are currently no food and drug administration (fda)-approved agents available to treat this condition. in this study, we evaluated the effect of gabapentin on the sensation of subjective tinnitus in patients with acoustic trauma referring to the ear, nose and throat (ent) clinic of taleghani hospital durin...

purpose: to study the validity and reliability of subjective refraction, predicted phoropter refraction (ppr) measured by zywave aberrometer, and final surgical plan applied for laser vision correction. methods: this prospective study was conducted on 94 myopic or myopic astigmatic eyes (48 patients) who were candidates for refractive surgery in negah eye hospital from april 2012 to july 2012. ...

Although older adults often show reduced episodic memory accuracy, their ratings of the subjective vividness of their memories often equal or even exceed those of young adults. Such findings suggest that young and older adults may differentially access and/or weight different kinds of information in making vividness judgments. We examined this idea using multivoxel pattern classification of fMR...

abstract background: happiness is a drive and constructive force of life. a person feels wellbeing under different effective factors. religious dogmatism that has an influence on the entire world is one of the depreciatory factors of happiness or wellbeing. the current study decided to analyze the relation between dogmatism and wellbeing, and according to a model, answer the following question:...