Diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. The aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. Through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a li...

a survey was made to identify the specific health behavior and its relation with certain demographic characteristics of hypertensive clients in health units operating under the supervision of oromieh university (west iran) in 1993 .   a total of 100 patients were selected from three main clinics at random .   the tool containing 42 items was developed to cover five areas :   - demographic data ...

BACKGROUND In economic evaluations of care services for older adults health-related quality of life (QoL) measures such as the EQ-5D are increasingly replaced by the ICECAP-O and ASCOT, which cover a broader scope of QoL than health alone. Little is known about the content validity and feasibility of these measures. The purpose of this study was to explore the content validity and feasibility o...

In this paper, we examine the measurement of citizens’ beliefs that politicians and political systems are responsive (external efficacy) citizens see themselves sufficiently skilled to participate in politics (internal efficacy). This paper demonstrates techniques allow researchers establish cross-context validity conceptually important ordinal scales. so doing, show an alternative set efficacy...

Self-report measures of psychological distress or psychopathology are widely used and can be easily implemented as psychiatric screening tools. Positive psychological constructs such as vitality/optimism and work functioning have scarcely been incorporated. We aimed to develop and validate a psychological distress instrument, including measures of vitality and work functioning. A patient sample...

In English as a Second Language Teaching and Testing situations, it is common to infer about learners’ reading ability based on his or her total score on a reading test. This assumes the unidimensional and reproducible nature of reading items. However, few researches have been conducted to probe the issue through psychometric analyses. In the present study, the IELTS exemplar module C (1994) wa...

The study was designed to assess the degree to which two sets of measures about chaplains' visits with patients predicted patients' perceptions that their spiritual/religious needs and their emotional needs were met by the chaplain. The first set consisted of seven items about the chaplain's demeanor during the visit. The second set measured patient satisfaction with seven aspects of the chapla...

This lecture is about different techniques used for video streaming to improve performance and Quality of Experience (QoE). Specifically, we learned about ”neural adaptive video streaming with Pensieve” [1]. Pensieve adaptively selects bitrates (ABR) for future video chunks based on observations collected by client video players. It automatically learns ABR algorithms that adapt to a wide range...