BACKGROUND There is limited data examining the association of combined fitness and central obesity with health related quality of life (HRQoL) in adults. We examined the association of combined cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in the form of a fit-fat index (FFI) with the Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) HRQoL scores in United S...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The Foot Function Index (FFI) is a self-report, foot-specific instrument measuring pain and disability and has been widely used to measure foot health for over twenty years. A revised FFI (FFI-R) was developed in response to criticism of the FFI. The purpose of this review was to assess the uses of FFI and FFI-R as were reported in medical and surgical literature and ad...

Mastery over speech acts plays a significant role in the accomplishment of communication between interlocutors. Thus, present study aimed to investigate Iranian EFL Instructors' perception and instructional practices towards form-focused instruction acts, specifically request apology invitation. To this aim, through sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, researchers selected 30 English la...

The main rivals to the input or comprehension hypothesis are the skill-building and comprehensible output hypotheses. Studies claiming to show that the skill-building hypothesis is correct consist of studies of the impact of grammar instruction and error correction. These studies show only that instruction and correction have a modest impact on tests in which subjects are focused on form. Compr...

Purpose The aim of the present study was to adapt the Foot Function Index-Revised Short Form (FFI-RS) questionnaire into Polish and verify its reliability and validity in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods The study included 211 patients suffering from RA. The FFI-RS questionnaire underwent standard linguistic adaptation and its psychometric parameters were investigat...

This study involving 60 Japanese learners of English investigated the effects of various kinds of form-focused instruction on learners’ ability to comprehend and produce polite requests in English. Each treatment group received one of the following: (a) deductive instruction; (b) inductive instruction with problem-solving tasks; or (c) inductive instruction with structured input tasks. These ta...

This new electronic surveying instrument measures s/ope distance and zenith angle simultaneously, then computes and displays horizontal or vertical distance in feet or metres. /fs base measures horizontal angle. f N 1e70, WITH THE INTRODUCTION of the I saooA Distance Meter. Hewlett-Packard launched into the electronic measurement of distance. Since that time HP has become a major supplier of el...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect disease on quality life (QoL) in patients with not operated symptomatic hallux valgus (HV) and relationship between degree deformity classified by radiological parameters QoL. Methods: In prospective study, 100 (33 males, 67 females; mean age 49.25 ± 15.20 years; range 18 75 years) who were admitted our institution diagnosed HV Marc...