The composition of interactive multimedia titles is a challenge for all advanced multimedia authoring tools. When non-interactive titles were specified by aligning the media items on a temporal axis such as time lines or tracks, now interactive multimedia titles require a non-linear temporal model. Thus, authoring becomes more complex, and the structure of a title is more difficult to visualize...

BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent depression is common and often persists into adulthood with negative implications for school performances, peer relationship and behavioural functioning. The Child Depression Inventory (CDI) has been used to assess depression among adolescents in many countries including Nigeria but it is uncertain if the theoretical structure of CDI appropriately fits the ex...

BACKGROUND Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) state that bilingual children should be assessed in both the languages known by the children. However, despite these recommendations, a majority of speech an...

The Children's Depression Inventory-Short Version (CDI-S), an abbreviated version of the widely used Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), has been regularly used in recent research. In comparison to the original CDI, the CDI-S has not been rigorously evaluated for its psychometrics. The present study examined the dimensionality, convergent and discriminant validity, and gender differences of ...

BACKGROUND The Koshino (KI) and Caton-Deschamps (CDI) indices are used to measure patellar height in children, with the CDI showing excellent reliability in typically developing (TD) children. Reliability of such measures in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and spina bifida (SB) is unknown. METHODS Lateral knee radiographs were reviewed retrospectively for children with TD (n = 49), CP (n = ...

Multimedia authoring tools are deservedly popular for their potentially high effective productivity and usefulness for prototyping. However the development can cause problems if these authoring tools are not properly evaluated and used. In this work we employed ToolBook® to develop several interactive multimedia coursewares and evaluated its usefullness. The results of the study showed that Too...

OBJECTIVE Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is associated with hospitalization and may cause readmission following admission for any reason. We aimed to measure the incidence of readmissions due to CDI. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. PATIENTS Adult inpatients in Orange County, California, who presented with new-onset CDI within 12 weeks of discharge. METHODS We assessed mandatory ...

The major purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing level of adolescents in Tehran, Iran. An instrument for data collection was CDI. The total number of samples is (63).The age of the respondents was 12-17 years. There was significant difference in pre-test and post-test of CBT (t=16.26, p<.05) showing the effectiveness of CBT therapy, whi...

MAIN RESULTS 47 trials (25 randomised controlled trials [RCTs], n=59 566) met the selection criteria. (1) Influenza vaccine (inactivated parenteral vaccine [IP], live aerosol vaccine [LA], or inactivated aerosol vaccine [IA]) v placebo. Rates of CDI and SCI were lower in the IP group than in the placebo group (table). Rates of specified CDI and SCI were also lower in the LA group than in the pl...

Aims. We present high spatial resolution observations of the dusty core of the Planetary Nebula with Wolf-Rayet central star CPD-568032, for which indications of a compact disk have been found by HST/SITS observations. Methods. These observations were taken with the mid-infrared interferometer VLTI/MIDI in imaging mode providing a typical 300mas resolution and in interferometric mode using UT2-...