Previous studies evaluated various risk factors for knee OA; however, no study has examined the association between spinal factors, such as total spinal alignment and spinal range of motion (ROM), with knee OA. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of spinal factors including total spinal alignment and spinal ROM on knee OA in community-living elderly subjects. A total of 170 s...

In the paper, we introduce and study generalized weighted influence indices of a coalition on a player, where players have an ordered set of possible actions. Each player has an inclination to choose one of the actions. Due to influence of a coalition of other players, a final decision of the player may be different from his original inclination. An influence in such situations is measured by t...

Objectives: 1.To investigate the relationship between nasal morphology in relation to sagittal and vertical maxillary skeletal pattern and 2.To know the relationship between the degree of upturn of the nose and the inclination of the palatal plane. Materials and Methods: Pretreatment lateral cephalograms of 60 adults of age 18-27 years with no previous history of trauma, surgical intervention, ...

Networking research has a strong inclination toward designing systems for the worst case scenarios. On the face of it, this seems reasonable – designing for the worst case gives strong guarantees on the system. However, this often comes with a sacrifice for the typical case performance. Drawing from our experience, this paper argues and gives evidence of the enormous benefits of typical case de...

Two studies used a thought-listing technique to examine perceived superiority, or the inclination to regard one's own relationship as better than (and not as bad as) others' relationships. Consistent with the claim that this is a motivated phenomenon-and motivated in part by strong commitment-Study 1 revealed that (a) tendencies toward perceived superiority and (b) the commitment-superiority li...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether a generalized conceptualization of credibility of various sources in marketing communication exists. In the survey, respondents are required to rate source credibility by applying items gathered from previous studies. To overcome inconsistencies and weaknesses of previous factor model studies, a rigorous analysis of the source credibility concept ...

Mobile electronic devices are playing an increasingly pervasive role in our daily activities. Yet, there has been very little empirical research investigating how mobile technology habits might relate to individual differences in cognition and affect. The research presented in this paper provides evidence that heavier investment in mobile devices is correlated with a relatively weaker tendency ...

The objective of this paper is to provide insight about the use of qualitative research in library and information science (LIS) literature. This paper also provides an account of the extent to which different qualitative methods have been used or are in use within LIS research. The analysis has led to the conclusion that there is a greater inclination towards some qualitative methods than othe...

Abstract We investigate the orientation of photospheric magnetic fields in solar polar region using observations from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). Inside small patches significant polarization, inferred field vectors at 1″ scale appear to systematically deviate radial direction. Most tilt toward pole; all are more inclined plane sky compared vector. These results, however, depend on ...