A questionnaire on the status of animal welfare legislation and its implementation was distributed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to 172 Member Countries in 2008. Overall, 45% of questionnaires were returned. The response rate varied from 25% in Africa to 69% in Europe. Eighty-seven percent of respondent countries indicated that there was a competent national veterinary autho...

BACKGROUND Respondent fatigue, also known as survey fatigue, is a common problem in the collection of survey data. Factors that are known to influence respondent fatigue include survey length, survey topic, question complexity, and open-ended question type. There is a great deal of interest in understanding the drivers of physician survey responsiveness due to the value of information received ...

Critical review and evaluation of the article “Mental health and substance use in an urban First Nations population in Hamilton, Ontario” by Firestone et al. brought an important issue to the forefront, namely the use of respondent-driven sampling for participant recruitment. The use of respondent-driven sampling during the study’s recruitment period raises questions about the presence of any u...

In consumer research, the role of the paired preference test appears to be sacrosanct, whether deserved or not. Paired preference simply means putting one product up against another, and instructing the respondent to indicate which one the respondent prefers. The ‘preference’ measure does not show how much one product is liked (or how much more one product is liked versus another). Rather, the ...

This study is designed to measure readiness among adult distance learner to embrace new technologies in their studies. This study involved 190 adult distance learner from School of Distance Education, UniversitiSains Malaysia as a respondent and the data were collected by questionnaire that adopted from Parasuraman and Colby (2001) [1]. The study was carried out to see whether adult learners ar...

background: medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. this study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in tehran, iran. methods: this study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents fr...