INTRODUCTION The Questionnaire for Olfactory Dysfunction (QOD) is a self-reporting olfactory-related quality of life questionnaire. The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of this questionnaire. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and thirteen patients with olfactory problems were enrolled in this study. The English version of the QOD was first...

Information provided by a source should be assessed by an intelligent agent on the basis of several criteria: most notably, its content and the trust one has in its source. In turn, the observed quality of information should feed back on the assessment of its source, and such feedback should intelligently distribute among different features of the source—e.g., competence and sincerity. We propo...

PURPOSE Marras et al. developed a technique to evaluate sincerity of effort during dynamic trunk motion performance. The validity and reliability of the technique have not been evaluated. Therefore, the objective of this study was to first determine whether or not a sincerity of effort measure correctly identified those giving a sincere effort in a blinded randomized control trial and second to...

The purpose of this study is to determine the concept sincerity according Imam Al-Ghazali and its relevance goals Islamic education. Talking about traits that are very easy say but, in essence, difficult do, namely sincerity, Sincerity an intention from heart then applied form deeds, whose main for Allah SWT. indeed but contains enormous rewards if someone succeeds passing sincere certification...

This study investigates perceptions of organizational image and attractiveness among 200 potential applicants for the Belgian Defense and the person (e.g., friend, parent) accompanying them to a job fair. The instrumental-symbolic framework is applied to conceptualize the key dimensions of an organization‟s image as an employer. The results indicate that instrumental image attributes predict pe...

The concept of common ground — the mutual understanding of context and conventions — is central to philosophical accounts of mendacity; its use is to determine the meaning of linguistic expressions and the significance of physical acts, and to distinguish certain statements as conveying a conventional promise, warranty, or expectation of sincerity. Lying necessarily involves an abuse of common ...

A major critique against BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) approaches to communication is that they require strong hypotheses such as sincerity and cooperation on the mental states of the agents (cf. for example [13,14,5]). The aim of this paper is to remed this defect. Thus we study communication between heterogeneous agents via the notion of grounding, in the sense of being publicly expressed a...