Introduction: This study was performed to evaluate the correlation between the objective and subjective sensation of nasal patency, assessed through a validated questionnaire, the Italian version of the NOSE scale, and the rhinomanometric results in a large cohort of patients complaining about nasal obstruction.     Materials and Methods: Data was obtained from a total of 233 adult patients, ...

The target of this paper is to draw a comparison between information in living systems and information in inorganic contexts. The two representative contexts we will refer to are those of an organism and of solid state physics. We have published extensively elsewhere on the properties of a model hierarchy (e.g. Cottam et al, 2003; and most recently Cottam et al, 2016; Cottam et al, 2017), and t...

OBJECTIVE We examined the interdependent, dyadic, mental health of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients and their caregivers. Our aims were as follows: (1) to investigate the degree to which patients' and caregivers' subjective perceptions of illness severity are congruent with objective severity (i.e., medical indicators), (2) to compare patients' and caregivers' subjective percept...

Introduction The following paper identifies and takes issue with a potentially troubling development in the study of comparative politics. While political scientists have traditionally deployed objective indicators of “political organization and administrative capacity” (Reynolds 1983, p. 976), including tax ratios (Organski and Kugler 1980; Benson and Kugler 1998), tax structures (Kling 1968; ...

Nowadays the quality of life is one of the factors that have special standing in the context of urban planning studies. This factor became significant due to the increasing importance of quality of life in the monitoring of public policy and its role as an efficient tool in the management and planning. Urban life quality is usually measured through the surveying and evaluation of subjective per...