Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS-UA), Department of Education and Psychology, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Cognitive-Behavioral Center for Research and Inter...

William Young II, Teresa Franklin, Chang Liu and David Chelberg Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Russ College of Engineering and Technology, 270 Stocker Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979, USA Department of Educational Studies, The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education and Human Services, Ohio University, 315 McCracken Hall, Athens, OH 45701-2979, USA S...

OBJECTIVE To assess potential racial and socioeconomic disparities in patients with parkinsonism treated at a tertiary Movement Disorders Center. METHODS Patients with parkinsonism were evaluated for demographics (age, race, annual income, and educational level), medical comorbidities, medication regimen, disability (Older Americans Resources and Services subscale), presence of Parkinson dise...

A study was conducted to extend the sequential probability ratio testing (SPRT) procedure with the polytomous model under some practical constraints in computerized classification testing (CCT), such as methods to control item exposure rate, and to study the effects of other variables, including item information algorithms, test difficulties, item pool sizes, and widths of the indifference regi...

Educational expectations measure a youth’s plans for further educational attainment and have been dubbed the “strategic center” of a model of educational and occupational outcomes. Research on educational expectations has been invigorated of late with increasing interest in decision-making theories in sociology and economics. In this paper, we compare long-standing theories in the status attain...

j J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004;11:317–319. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1463. There is little doubt that medical informatics occupies a central place in modern medicine. Innovative methods for managing health care information are critical to solving the problems posed by our nation’s health care system. However, medical informatics solutions cannot be applied without a well-trained labor force. Criticisms...

I this paper, we discuss a collaborative process for developing a decision tool to support decisions around investment in green energy technologies. Our tool was developed specifically for the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, a local environmental education organization, and the development process began as an undergraduate student service learning project. Building on the student projects...

This paper evaluates the eff ectiveness of the introduction of a Writing Center at a university. The center has the purpose to provide subject-specifi c courses that aim to improve students‘ abilities of scientifi c writing. In order to deal with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use diff erent quantitative evaluation methods and compare the results to corresp...

background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...