The role of scenic landscapes in restoring human mental fatigue has begun to receive attention from landscape researchers. However, little is known about the positive role of visually-preferred landscapes on restorative environments and in improving the mental fatigue of people. This study attempted to determine the relationship between the predictors of preference and restorative components of...

Willingness to pay (WTP) is used to assess individuals' value attribution to health-related quality of life interventions. Little is known about predictors of WTP for sport and physical activity in socially vulnerable groups in community-based physical activity (CBHEPA) programs. This study addresses the questions: What is the WTP for sport and physical activity of participants in CBHEPA progra...

Meta-predictors make predictions by organizing and processing the predictions produced by several other predictors in a defined problem domain. A proficient meta-predictor not only offers better predicting performance than the individual predictors from which it is constructed, but it also relieves experimentally researchers from making difficult judgments when faced with conflicting results ma...

The regression problem involving functional predictors has many important applications and a number of functional regression methods have been developed. However, a common complication in functional data analysis is one of sparsely observed curves, that is predictors that are observed, with error, on a small subset of the possible time points. Such sparsely observed data induces an errors-in-va...

this study investigated the relationship between symptoms of anxiety in children and early maladaptive schemas in children and their mothers. early maladaptive schemas are dysfunctional ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that develop as a result of adverse experiences with significant others in childhood, and lead to a higher risk of psychopathology. a sample of 200 non-clinical children (a...

obesity and its related emotional and physical consequences are a worldwide problem. obese individuals are usually stigmatized. this study is proposed to assess the correlation between body mass index, gender and age with psychiatric symptoms among iranian students. a number of 9172 students aged 10-18 years (53.5% girls and 46.5% boys) from all provinces of iran participated in this study. dat...

medical education & medical profession are among the most challenging and most stressful ones. anxiety and depression represents an escalating public health problem among medical students. the objective of the study was to determine the prevalence & predictors of anxiety and depression among female medical students in king abdulaziz university, jeddah, saudi arabia.a cross-sectional study was c...

background: fractures of the proximal fifth metatarsal bone are among the most common fractures observed in the foot and their classification and management has been subject to much discussion and disagreement. in this study, we aim to identify and quantify the effect of possible predictors of the outcome of the treatment of proximal fifth metatarsal fractures. methods: patients with establishe...