objectives: quality of life, when referring to an individual’s health, is called health-related quality of life. the purpose of this study is to assess self-perceived hearing loss related quality of life of adolescents with hearing loss and its relationship with sex, age sub-groups or school settings with domains of quality of life. methods: a school based survey was conducted in tehran city. u...

purpose: to evaluate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) among strabismus patient. methods: one hundred and twenty-two strabismic patients ≥ 14 years who scheduled for surgery were selected non-randomly. the patients completed the adult strabismus 20 (as-20) and sf 36 questionnaires. measurements were performed preoperatively and 3 and 6 months postoperatively. changes in psychosocial an...

conclusions based on the results of the present study and other performed studies in this regard, menopause, aging, vasomotor symptoms, and education had significant association with the qol of postmenopausal women. the reduced qol in postmenopausal women could eventually lead to the reduced qol of their spouses. therefore, it is necessary to plan for the education of these women and their husb...

Ronald R. Yager Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona College New Rochelle, NY 10801 [email protected] (212)249-2047 ABSTRACT Fuzzy sets and other methods have been used to model a softening of constraints in CP problems. Here we suggest an approach to the softening of the CP problem at the meta level, the process used to aggregate the satisfactions to the individual constraints. We suggest the us...

The study investigated the 2011 TPGA Ever Rich Championship – North Bay Open spectators’ on-the-site spectating motivations, experiences, and satisfactions. The research was conducted on a convenience sample of the on-the-spot spectators at the North Bay Golf and Country Club. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed, of which 185 valid questionnaires were collected, approaching a 92.5% r...

anxiety disorder is characterized by constant feelings of worry, excitation or alternative panic attacks. anxiety becomes a disorder when the feelings are repeated or severe and are produced by insignificant things or nothing at all and interfere with our functioning. epilepsy is determined as two or more unprovoked seizures. many recent epidemiological studies have found the prevalence of depr...