Students’ mindsets, multilingualism, learning styles and self-regulation strategies, which represent parts of their patterns, can affect academic achievement in various ways. This article presents the results a study that utilised 185-item online questionnaire to investigate interplay among styles, multilingualism 191 undergraduate students France who were studying English as foreign language (...

Background: Advances in science and technology and the changes in lifestyle have changed the concept of health in terms of etiology and mortality. The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the original Patient Self-Advocacy Scale for use with an Iranian population.Methods: In the current study, 50 chronic patients between the ages of 25 and 75 were selected as samples. Th...

Introduction. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is widely used standard for modeling business processes supported by the Object-Oriented Technology Specification Management Group (OMG). However, BPMN 2.0 specification quite lengthy contains over 500 pages. Item definitions are scattered across different sections of sometimes conflict. In addition, structure elements their relationships...

OBJECTIVE Measures of shoulder function may differ by dominance of affected shoulder, surgical history, gender, or race. We present a technique for determining whether observed differences in function between groups are due to biased test items or real differences in function. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Four hundred patients who were receiving rehabilitation for a variety of shoulder impairment...

Widely used recommendation systems are mainly accuracy-oriented since they are based on item-based ratings and useror item-based similarity measures. Such accuracy-based engines do not consider factors such as proliferation of varied user interests and the desire for changes. This results in a muted user experience that is generated from a constrained and narrow feature set. Recommender systems...

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) and chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) are two prevalent, visible itching skin diseases associated with decreased quality of life (QoL), sleep disturbance, depression anxiety. However, little is known about stigmatisation among patients suffering from these diseases. Objectives To examine whether AD or CSU experience if disease severity psychosocial variables ...