To develop a Portuguese short form, the Eating Attitudes Test-40 (EAT-40) was administered to a community sample of 922 female students and to a clinical sample of 63 females suffering from an eating disorder. With the EAT responses of the community sample a factor analysis was performed and items with factor loadings > or = 0.30 were selected. Internal consistency was computed for both the ins...

In a recent paper by M. Wieczorek, a claim is made regarding the possible rational torsion subgroups of elliptic curves E/Q in short Weierstrass form, subject to certain inequalities for their coefficients. We provide a series of counterexamples to this claim and explore a number of related results. In particular, we show that, for any ε > 0, all but finitely many curves EA,B : y 2 = x +Ax+B, w...

People devote considerable effort to retaining their mates. Mate retention tactics range from vigilance to violence, and are linked to variables such as marital satisfaction and relationship aggression. The Mate Retention Inventory (MRI; 104 items comprising 19 tactics) has proven to be reliable and valid. Given the importance of assessing mate retention in various contexts, there is a need for...

PURPOSE To create two matched short forms of the Philadelphia Naming Test (PNT; Roach, Schwartz, Martin, Grewal, & Brecher, 1996) that yield similar results to the PNT for measuring anomia. METHOD In Study 1, archived naming data from 94 individuals with aphasia were used to identify which PNT items should be included in the short forms. The 2 constructed sets of 30 items, PNT30-A and PNT30-B...

BACKGROUND The VIA Institute on Character is offering the VIA-120 as the standard VIA Survey, replacing the original 240-item version. The present work involved the construction and the initial evaluation of the Spanish VIA-120 as a short version of the Spanish adaptation of the VIA-IS. METHOD This short form was developed using data from 2,143 Spanish-speaking adults. The Spanish VIA-120 was...

Siblings, one female and one male, were each born approximately 1 month prematurely and showed microcephalus, shortness, and short limbs plus a receding forehead and one peculiarly positioned small toe. Each failed to thrive, and neither made any developmental progress beyond the newborn status. Each exhibited a similar leukemoid reaction, and one died of respiratory infection at 3 months, the ...