ISSUE ADDRESSED Use of the Internet for health promotion is increasing; however, the lack of published research regarding website usability suggests that health promotion websites are being developed without consultation with their users or formal evaluation. This study conducted usability testing of an existing health promotion website to inform modifications and to identify common usability t...

This paper concerns the relationships amongst acoustic phonetic features of speech signals, perceived vocal effort, and speech clarity. It is presented from a statistical analysis of a good number of subjective testing on an anechoic speech corpus with 5 different vocal efforts, namely hushed, normal, raised, loud, and shouted, with an aim to map objective acoustic phonetic features onto subjec...

in rural areas, where water tends to be traded less and is mostly used as an essential farm input, water users association can be as an alternative for water resource management. the purpose of this study was to investigate influence factors on the farmers’ tend to constitute water users associations. research population was all farmers covered of feyzabad irrigation network supply (192 farmers...

To analyze and evaluate textbooks, researchers have either proposed scales and checklists to be filled by teachers and learners or conducted qualitative investigations of the match between SLA theories and textbook activities. This study, however, employs the microstructural approach of schema theory to scrutinize the reading passages of “Mosaic 1 Reading”. To this end, 17 passages of the textb...

background: happiness as one of the main positive health indicators has drawn more attention in recent years among policy makers and health system managers. there are few studies performed to measure happiness in population-based settings in iran. in response to this need, our study tends to assess iranians subjective happiness in tehran, capital city of iran. m aterials and methods: present st...

INTRODUCTION Past findings on the diagnostic sensitivity of vaginal photoplethysmography are limited by testing among women with heterogeneous sexual dysfunctions and by the use of statistical techniques that are unable to assess how changes in subjective arousal are associated with changes in physiological arousal. AIMS The aims of this study were to: (i) test the sensitivity of vaginal phot...

BACKGROUND Some research concerned with place and health has used the study of opportunity structures in neighbourhoods to understand how place might get under the skin. It has become somewhat common to assume that objective indicators of opportunity structures are in some way equivalent to people's access to them. The general objective of this study, therefore, was to evaluate the level of con...

OBJECTIVE Relatively little is known about the effects of deep brain stimulation on non-motor symptoms. The aim of this pilot study was to assess the impact of deep brain stimulation on sleep and olfactory function in Parkinson's disease. METHODS Subjective sleep quality and olfactory testing were performed on 11 consecutive Parkinson's disease patients (eight men and three women) undergoing ...