This study aimed at validating the domains of suicidality assessed by the Scale for Impact of Suicidality-Management, Assessment and Planning of Care (SIS-MAP) and creating a brief screener based on the full scale. A total of 50 individuals with suicidal ideation were given the SIS-MAP interview. Support was found for these domains of suicide risk; in particular, the subscales of ideation and p...

Reliability of goniometric measurements has been examined only under standardized conditions and usually with healthy subjects. The purpose of this study was to assess goniometric reliability in a clinical setting. The reliability of goniometric measurements of passive elbow and knee positions was assessed using patients as subjects. The effect of using the means of repeated measurements and th...

In respond to a call from Carter (2011) to research the determinants of earnings from entrepreneurship across the business life cycle, we propose a life course framework and test this to explore two questions: (1) how capability to earn from entrepreneurship emerges from accrual of resources across the life course of the individual and their household, as this relates to the inter-generational ...

Cognitions have been known to play a central role in the development, maintenance, and treatment of speech anxiety. However, few instruments are currently available to assess cognitive contents associated with speech anxiety. This report describes three studies examining the psychometric characteristics of a revised English version of the Speech Anxiety Thoughts Inventory (SATI)-an instrument m...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to establish outcome measures for professionalism in medical students and to identify predictors of these outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A US medical school. PARTICIPANTS All students entering in 1995 and graduating within 5 years. MEASURES Outcome measures included review board identification of professionalism problems and ...

The IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed systems design, development, and evaluation, particularly with emphasis on reliability, availability, safety, security, trust, and real time. SRDS is celebrating its 30 anniversary and we are happy to see that its research program remains as vibr...

OBJECTIVE The English version of the postgraduate hospital educational environment measure (PHEEM) was evaluated to determine its psychometric properties, validity, and internal consistency. The instrument was used to measure the clinical learning environment in the hospital setting of a Saudi university medical school. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed in a Saudi medical schoo...

The aims of this study were: (i) to assess the test-retest intrarater reliability of eccentric ankle dorsiflexor muscle performance in young healthy men and women using the Biodex dynamometer; and (ii) to examine different statistical indices for the interpretation of reliability. Thirty men and women (age 22.5 +/- 2.5 years, mean +/- S.D.) performed three maximal eccentric contractions at 30 d...

AIM To verify the precision and accuracy of transglutaminase antibodies (TGA) assays across Mediterranean countries. METHODS This study involved 8 referral centres for celiac disease (CD) in 7 Mediterranean countries. A central laboratory prepared 8 kits of 7 blinded and randomized serum samples, with a titrated amount of Human TGA IgA. Each sample was analysed three times on three different ...

BACKGROUND Immunochromatographic based rk39 antibody detection test became popular for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaiasis (VL) because of high sensitivity, rapidity, easy to interpret, and cost effectiveness. However, false positive result after complete cure of the patients is the major limitation with this test. The aim of the study to access the usefulness of non-invasive samples i.e. ur...