This study assessed the construct validity of two different measurement models of male partners' perpetration of physical violence, sexual violence, psychological abuse, and stalking against intimate partners. Data were obtained from a sample of 340 men arrested for physical assault of a female spouse or partner and court ordered into batterer intervention programs. Men were surveyed before sta...

background: infertility and its treatment can have a considerable effect on a person's quality of life (qol). the fertility quality of life (fertiqol) questionnaire is currently the most frequently used instrument to measure qol in people experiencing fertility problem. this study was conducted to examine the reliability and validity of the fertiqol in iranian infertile women. materials and met...

In this paper we consider a d = 2 random Ising system on a square lattice with nearest neighbour interactions. The disorder is short range correlated and asymmetry between the vertical and the horizontal direction is admitted. More precisely, the vertical bonds are supposed to be non random while the horizontal bonds alternate: one row of all non random horizontal bonds is followed by one row w...

This paper presents a three-phase fourswitch converter aimed at compensating reactive power in case of distorted and unbalanced source voltages. An original closed-form solution of line currents, based on the mixed p-z approach is presented. The analytical and experimental results are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

The Parenting Bonding Instrument (PBI) is a widely used battery to assess parenting behaviours. Although, it was originally developed to measure two attributes of parenting behaviour, care and overprotection, there is still disagreement about the factor structure of the scale. The aim of the present study is to examine the fit of different factorial structures of the PBI in a Japanese college s...

The voice of the customer is never more loudly heard than through social media. These online comments and reviews provide the insights marketers need to better build, design, and clarify the message around their products and services. Current approaches to mining these insights mainly focus on the volume and trend of sentiment. However, sentiment is not enough to discover actionable insights fr...

“We waited a very long time for a waiter, and finally the person who seated us came and took our order. She was obviously in a rush, and neglected to go over the evening’s specials or spend one second more with us than she had to. Our drinks and order were delivered by a waitor that didn’t even bother to ask if we needed anything else. After we could eat no more, we waited pateient;y for human ...

In The Netherlands, the Ministry of Security and Justice requires the assessment of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991; Hare, 2003) in all forensic psychiatric inpatients. To examine the four-factor structure of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted using a Dutch sample of forensic psychiatric inpatients (N=411) and the results ind...