Background: Teaching is one of the most stressful jobs. This research aims to evaluate the validity of the scale for measuring occupational stress among Iranian teachers. Materials and Methods:  This cross-sectional survey was conducted from December 2020 to January 2021 using a quantitative approach and the psychometric validation research method. The research sample consisted of specialists ...

BACKGROUND Proximal humeral fractures are amongst the most common fractures. Functional recovery is often slow and many people have ongoing disability during activities of daily life. Unidimensional measurement of activity limitations is required to monitor functional progress during rehabilitation. However, current shoulder measures are multidimensional incorporating constructs such as activit...

Two tasks were used to evaluate the grain of visual attention, the minimum spacing at which attention can select individual items. First, observers performed a tracking task at many viewing distances. When the display subtended less than 1 degrees in size, tracking was no longer possible even though observers could resolve the items and their motions: The items were visible but could not be ind...

Although individual differences in category-learning tasks have been explored, the observed differences have tended to represent different instantiations of general processes (e.g., learners rely upon different cues to develop a rule) and their consequent representations. Additionally, studies have focused largely on participants' categorizations of transfer items to determine the representatio...

Background Barriers and facilitators, collectively called determinants, of evidence-based practice implementation are key to identifying the best strategies for promoting implementation. Assessing determinants before can help tailor those that would be most effective. Current measures not comparable across settings scientists practitioners often have create their own measures. This study was fi...

Measures of divergence or discrepancy are used either to measure mutual information concerning two variables or to construct model selection criteria. In this paper we are focusing on divergence measures that are based on a class of measures known as Csiszar’s divergence measures. In particular, we propose a measure of divergence between residual lives of two items that have both survived up to...

This paper provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of monetary poverty and nonmonetary deprivation may be constructed based on survey data such as from EU-SILC. For non-monetary deprivation, meaning dimensions or groupings of initial items of deprivation are identified using explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses, and a weighting system is applied for the aggregation individ...

In a unified knowledge representation data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as “items”. Objects are item building operators. Items and objects contain two types of acceptability measures that measure the invalidity of item instances. A quantitative calculus estimates the extent to which knowledge base integrity may be expected to degrade as time passes. This ...

Background We conducted a review of articles citing trial-related resource use measures catalogued in the Database of Instruments for Resource Use Measurement (http:// www.DIRUM.org). The aims were to assess: (i) how the instruments were used in practice; (ii) which items of resource use were most frequently measured using patient-recall; and (iii) how estimates compared if more than one method...

Compassion has long been regarded as a core part of our humanity by contemplative traditions, and in recent years, it has received growing research interest. Following a recent review of existing conceptualisations, compassion has been defined as consisting of the following five elements: 1) recognising suffering, 2) understanding the universality of suffering in human experience, 3) feeling mo...