Recent airborne pollen records data from Northern Patagonia (San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, Lat. 41.1435 S, Long. 71.375 W, 800 m elevation) suggest that pollen transport takes place from the west to the east slope of the Andes. However, the atmospheric characteristics responsible of this transport have not yet been studied. The aim of this paper is to assess potential source areas and to ...

Independent examination and replication of the core syndrome factor structure of the Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA; McDermott, Marston, & Stott, 1993) is reported. A sample of 1,020 children were randomly selected from their classroom and rated on the ASCA by their teacher. The six ASCA core syndromes produced a two-factor solution through principle axis analysis using mu...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the muscle synergy of collegiate rowers during 6 min maximal rowing on different stretcher mechanisms: fixed (FE) and slides ergometer (SE). The association of muscle synergy to rowing economy and physiological variables was further quantify by statistical analysis. Method: Ten collegiate rowers were recruited at the end of their competitive season. Mus...

The Satisfaction With Appearance Scale (SWAP) is a 14-item questionnaire, assessing both the subjective appraisal and social-behavioral components of body image among bum survivors. Burn survivors requiring hospitalization (n = 165} completed a packet of psychometric instruments, including the SWAP at 1-week postdischarge. The SWAP demonstrated a high level of internal consistency (Cronbach's a...

This paper reviews the construct and measurement of familial influence on Thai students’ choices of international education. It explains the development of the Familial Influence Scale (FIS) to measure five aspects of familial influence (finance, information, expectation, competition, and persuasion) on five choices of international education. The scale was tested for content and construct vali...

The authors articulate an expanded dimensional model of personality pathology to better account for symptoms of DSM-defined Cluster A personality disorders. Two hundred forty participants (98 firstdegree relatives of probands with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, 92 community control participants, and 50 first-degree relatives of probands with bipolar disorder) completed a dimensional...

introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

The article presents the results of research on comfort cultural services consumption environment. scientific discourses in segment subject are analysed, and their basis, 17 evaluation criteria for empirical study environment formulated. sociological information about evaluative judgments population was collected by an electronic questionnaire survey 407 people random sampling. Factor analysis ...

PURPOSE To extract unidimensional, well-separated latent scores that are anatomically and clinically valid from 52 standardized variables collected by Humphrey visual field (VF) perimetry (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA). METHODS Visual field data of 437 patients were collected and classified by a glaucoma specialist into seven clinical groups: irregularities of VF (IVF), nasal step (NaS), ar...