PURPOSE Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurological disorder that frequently results in nearly total disability. This study examined changes over 3 years in patients' experiences living with PD, and explored how participants' health perceptions and predicted mortality at baseline related to their actual death by Year 3. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were obtained from a local sam...

We associate cube complexes called completions to each subgroup of a right-angled Coxeter group (RACG). A completion characterizes many properties the such as whether it is quasiconvex, normal, finite-index or torsion-free.We use show that reflection subgroups are one-ended 2-dimensional RACG. provide an algorithm determines given one-ended, RACG isomorphic some another In addition, we answer s...

Even though the positive influences of nature on human health have been known for many decades, few studies have been carried out exclusively about the psychological benefits of exposure to water and sky as natural blue elements in built environments. Hence, close-ended questionnaire along with structured interviews (with open-ended questions) are applied to investigate the main question of thi...

The use of a Classroom Response System (CRS) was evaluated in two sections, A and B, of a large lecture microbiology course. In Section B the instructor used the CRS technology at the beginning of the class period posing a question on content from the previous class. Students could earn extra credit if they answered the question correctly. In Section A, the class also began with an extra credit...

In our work on AURA, we are dealing with (controlled) natural language queries to a scientific knowledge base, and this paper explores the extent to which Popescu et al’s framework can be applied in the AURA context. The AURA task differs from the database task in several important ways, in particular the variety and complexity of questions is much more open-ended than in Popescu et als databas...

In this article, we aim to contextualize gynecological problems within a broader health and social context, expanding the lens beyond reproductive health. Questionnaires were administered to 1,869 ever-married women aged 15 to 59 that included questions on living, general health, and gynecological problems. These questions were open-ended, allowing women to respond in their own words. Women rep...

Measuring women's empowerment within families is challenging. Social scientists often rely on close-ended survey questions participation in household decisions, domestic abuse, and autonomy to measure power agency. Recent advances family economics have allowed researchers identify estimate structural measures of resource control based the collective model. We provide a brief overview this liter...

Rapid growth of the volume of interactive questions available to the students of modern E-Learning courses placed the problem of personalized guidance on the agenda of E-Learning researchers. Without proper guidance, students frequently select too simple or too complicated problems and ended either bored or discouraged. This paper explores a specific personalized guidance technology known as ad...