Most previous studies dealing with business site selection decisions have been theoretical and mainly concerned with cost factors. There are many variables other than cost, some of which are qualitative and intangible in nature. This study attempts to provide empirical evidence on the importance of cost and other location-related variables. The 84 fastest-growing businesses in New England and N...

This study aimed to develop and validate whole grain KAP questionnaire among children. A guided self-administered questionnaire was developed. In this cross sectional study, a total of 207 children aged 9 to 11 years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were recruited. Knowledge domain was considered as optimal level of difficulty and able to discriminate performance of good and poor children. Construct v...

Clinical practice is an important part of nursing education, and robust instruments are required to evaluate the effectiveness of the hospital setting as a learning environment. The study aim is the psychometric test of the Clinical Learning Environment+Teacher (CLES+T) scale-Greek version. 463 students practicing in acute care hospitals participated in the study. The reliability of the instrum...

OBJECTIVE Given conflicting recommendations in the literature, this report seeks to present a standard protocol for applying principal components analysis (PCA) to event-related potential (ERP) datasets. METHODS The effects of a covariance versus a correlation matrix, Kaiser normalization vs. covariance loadings, truncated versus unrestricted solutions, and Varimax versus Promax rotations wer...

We propose two new, fast and stable methods to estimate time series models written in their equivalent state-space form. They are useful both, to obtain adequate initial conditions for a maximumlikelihood iteration, or to provide final estimates when maximumlikelihood is considered inadequate or computationally expensive. The state-space foundation of these procedures provides flexibility, as t...

For the last thirty years, the rapid growth in information technologies has led to an absolute explosion in the production and diffusion of statistical software. With dropdown menus replacing meticulously written computer code, it now seems that literally anyone can run a three-way analysis of variance, perform generalized statistical tests for a proportional hazards model, or use varimax rotat...

Interaction structures refers to the repetitive ways of interaction between the patient-therapist dyad over the course of treatment. This construct is operationalized by the repeated application of the Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (PQS) to psychotherapy sessions. Studies in this line of research have so far focused only on long-term treatment. The present study examines whether interaction struc...