The objective of this project is to extract furniture items from an image which includes multiple furniture items, and then find similar items from the database with the extracted furniture items. The image could be downloaded from online websites or taken using cameras. An android application is developed to process images taken using the phone camera. The processing process can be divided int...

OBJECTIVE The MacNew Health related Quality of Life Questionnaire is a widely used instrument for the assessment of health related quality of life in cardiac patients. The study addresses for the first time the dimensional structure of the MacNew with Mokken Scale Analysis (MSA). METHODS Separate exploratory MSA of the MacNew was conducted in a large Spanish (n=1012) and a medium sized Austri...

Musical instrument education has mental and physical processes. The purpose of this study, which discusses the process, is to develop a scale find out perceptions about effect imagery on performance instrument. twenty-item form was prepared for sent experts, content validity rate items established based feedback received. Items with value below thirty percent were excluded from scope study. As ...

the objective of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the farsi version of the perceived benefits/barriers scale of physical activity in iranian elderly.overall, 388 elderly subjects (60 yr and over) completed the demographic characteristics questionnaire, the exercise benefits/barriers scale (ebbs) and the yale physical activity scale. data were analyzed through of exp...

OBJECTIVE To develop an FFQ for estimating culture-specific maize intake that can distinguish between home-grown and commercial maize. Home-grown maize is more likely to be contaminated with fumonisins, mycotoxins that are associated with increased risk of oesophageal cancer. DESIGN An existing FFQ developed for use in urban Xhosa populations was used as the initial framework for the maize-sp...

Will people report both posttraumatic growth and depreciation following a highly stressful event? Using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory as the measure of growth, two studies compared responses to equivalent items designed to assess depreciation. Both types of change were reported, but growth was reported at much higher levels, and there was no correlation between growth and depreciation. Sma...

Patient cases with associated questions are a method for increasing the clinical relevance of licensure exams. This study used generalizability theory to assess changes in score reliability when the number of questions per case varied in the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE). The experimental design maintained the same total number of case-based items, while varying the number o...