Autism: asking the right questions to find the right answers.

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Do Answers Help in Posing Questions?

Let T n denote a complete binary tree of depth n. Each internal node, v, of T n has two children denoted by left(v) and right(v). Consider the following game between two Players, Paul and Carole. For each internal node, v, Carole chooses X(v) 2 fleft(v); right(v)g. This naturally deenes a path from the root, , of T n to one of its leaves given by ; X(); X 2 (); : : :; X n (): Paul has to nd thi...

Asking good clinical research questions and choosing the right study design.

Clinicians and researchers seek answers to clinical research questions, primarily by accessing the results of clinical research studies. This paper moves the focus of research enquiry from getting answers to developing good clinical research questions. Using worked examples, the steps involved in refining questions drawn from various sources to create 'answerable' clinical research questions us...

Question – Answer Games ( extended abstract )

I am in the middle of Manhattan and I am lost. I approach a likely stranger on the road and ask him, pointing to the right: “Is this the way to the railway station?” Discounting for a moment the possibility that I will be ignored and that the stranger will continue on his way (of which the—trivial—game move equivalent would be “I prefer not to answer the question”), I will now get one of three ...

Analyzing Users’ Health Information Needs Based on the Yahoo Answers®

Background and Aim: People refer to virtual information resources for answering their medical questions. One of these resources includes question and answering (Q&A) sites in medicine. This study aims to analyze health  questions posted on the Yahoo Answers to identify health information needs, the motivations for asking questions, evaluation of information user satisfaction resulted from recei...

اثربخشی روش درمانی پاسخ محور بر میزان سؤال پرسیدن کودکان دارای اختلال طیف اوتیسم: پژوهش مورد منفرد

Objectives One of the prevalent problems in children with autism spectrum disorder is that they face problem related to social initiation and initiation in questions asking. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the Pivotal Response Treatment  on the degree of question-asking of children with autism spectrum disorder.   Methods The research population included a...