To succeed in providing services, the quality of services should meet users’ satisfaction. This is a motivation to study the relationship between the service quality and the real perceived quality of users, which is commonly referred to as the quality of experience (QoE). However, most of existing QoE studies that focus on video-on-demand or IPTV services analyze only the influence of network b...

BACKGROUND This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective (emotional support) aspects of social engagement are independently associated with objective measures of cardiovascular risk. METHODS Data from the English Longitudinal Study...

Vocal warm-up was studied in terms of changes in voice parameters during a 45-minute vocal loading session in the morning. The voices of a randomly chosen group of 40 female and 40 male young students were loaded by having them read a novel aloud. The exposure groups (5 females and 5 males per cell) consisted of eight combinations of the following factors: (1) low (25 +/- 5%) or high (65 +/- 5%...

OBJECTIVE To assess physical activity levels objectively using accelerometers in community dwelling over 65 s and to examine associations with health, social, environmental and psychological factors. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING 17 general practices in Scotland, United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Random sampling of over 65 s registered with the practices in four strata young-old (65-8...

IMPORTANCE Commercially available automated vision screening devices assess refractive risk factors, not amblyopia or strabismus, underreferring affected children and overreferring healthy children. Nearly half of affected children are not identified until after age 5 years, when treatment is less effective. OBJECTIVES To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Pediatric Vision Scanner (PVS)...

Selection of the best robotic system considering subjective and objective factors is very imperative decision making procedure. This paper presents an extended TOPSIS based homogeneous group algorithm for selection industrial systems under fuzzy multiple criteria (FMCDM) analysis. FPIS, FNIS, positive negative separation measures, factor measure, measure robot index are computed. A case study h...

It has been hypothesized that a major objective of morphological adaptation in limb-bone diaphyses is the achievement of uniform regional safety factors between discrete cortical locations (e.g. between cranial and caudal cortices at mid-diaphysis). This hypothesis has been tested, and appears to be supported in the diaphyses of ovine and equine radii. The present study more rigorously examined...

Objectives To investigate attributes of medical students associated with their test anxiety on Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). Methods A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted of all Year 3 and 4 students at a private medical school in South Korea in 2014. This 53-item questionnaire consisted of factors pertaining to test anxiety on the...