aims: evaluation of patient satisfaction (ps) is one of the most essential factors in improving the quality of healthcare systems. the aim of this study is to determine the norms and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the najmiyeh outpatients satisfaction questionnaire (nosq). methods and materials: this study has been conducted on 240 outpatients in najmiyeh subspecialty hospital (teh...

OBJECTIVE To examine the utility of the WeeFIM instrument ("WeeFIM") in detecting changes in the functional status of children with disability. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal design with correlation and responsiveness analysis. SETTING Three facilities providing services to children with developmental disabilities in western New York State. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred five children (72 girl...

Although projective techniques continue to be widely used in clinical and forensic settings, their scientific status remains highly controversial. In this monograph, we review the current state of the literature concerning the psychometric properties (norms, reliability, validity, incremental validity, treatment utility) of three major projective instruments: Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Ap...

In an attempt to detect an increased bronchial blood flow in man from the earpiece dye-dilution curve, the reliability of three indexes was investigated by comparing them with the values of bronchial blood flow measured from the left atrial dye-dilution curve following dye injection into the aortic root. The first index is obtained from the Cp method, in which the ratio of the peak concentratio...

PURPOSE The functional vision assessment (AVIF-2 to 6 years) for low vision children with ages from 2 to 6 years old was analyzed. The inter-rater, test-retest and the internal consistency were verified for reliability. METHODS The test, composed by seven domains (visual fixation, visual following, visual field confrontation, eye-hand coordination and surrounding locomotion, contrast vision a...

Kinematic accuracy reliability is an important performance index in the evaluation of mechanism quality. By using a 3DOF 3-PUU parallel robot manipulator as the research object, the position and orientation error model was derived by mapping the relation between the input and output of the mechanism. Three error sensitivity indexes that evaluate the kinematic accuracy of the parallel robot mani...

Genetic selection has made dairy cows more profit-able producers of milk. Genetic evaluations began with 2 traits measured on a few cows but now include many traits measured on millions of cows. Selection indexes from USDA included yield traits beginning in 1971, productive life and somatic cell score beginning in 1994, conformation traits in 2000, and cow fertility and calving ease in 2003. Th...

A reliability function β(Q) is defined as the ratio of the expected value of the natural logarithm of the safety margin of the structural system divided by its standard deviation. The safety margin is the minimum value of the ratio of the story deformation capacity to the corresponding responseassociated demand, and Q is the peak ductility demand of a simplified reference system subjected to th...