BACKGROUND Adherence to treatment has been defined as the degree to which a patient's behavior corresponds to medical or health advice; however, the most appropriate method to evaluate adherence to diabetes care has yet to be identified. We conducted analyses to compare adherence assessments and blood glucose monitoring measures with regard to their ability to predict glycemic control in adults...

Cough is often used as an outcome measure, although the reporting of cough is unreliable. Using a 24 h ambulatory cough meter to measure cough frequency, the aim of this study was to compare: 1) the correlation of child-completed diary cards to the objective measurement, with that of parent-completed diary cards; and 2) the visual analogue scale (VAS) to the verbal category descriptive (VCD) sc...

The new semi-experimental method for simulation of the turbine flow meters rotation in the transitional flow has been developed. The method is based on the experimentally established exponential low of changing of dimensionless relative turbine gas meter rotation frequency and meter inertia time constant. For experimental evaluation of the meter time constant special facility has been developed...

Little is known about whether infants perceive meter, the underlying temporal structure of music. We employed a habituation paradigm to examine whether 7-month-old infants could categorize rhythmic and melodic patterns on the basis of the underlying meter, which was implied from event and accent frequency of occurrence. In Experiment 1, infants discriminated duple and triple classes of rhythm o...

A single voice extracted from the scores of compositions from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods has been studied in order to determine the feasibility of the determination of musical meter by computer. The method of autocorrelation• is appropriate for this calculation since it is a measure of the frequency of occurrence of events following an event at time zero. If a gr...

Investigations of the psychological representation for musical meter provided evidence for an internalized hierarchy from 3 sources: frequency distributions in musical compositions, goodness-of-fit judgments of temporal patterns in metrical contexts, and memory confusions in discrimination judgments. The frequency with which musical events occurred in different temporal locations differentiates...