The JQT Editorial Review Board instituted the Lloyd S. Nelson Award recognizing the article in the most recent volume, beginning with Volume 35 (2003), having the "greatest immediate impact to practitioners." The Statistics Division of ASQ, headed by Chair Davis Balestracci, carefully studied the articles appearing in last year’s issues. We greatly appreciate the dedication and effort of Davis ...

Introduction: Children with atypical development often present behavior problems that impair their psychosocial adaptation. Objective: To describe the cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01), as well as preliminary indicators of instrument reliability and validity. Methods: The process involved translation, back-translation, and cultural adaptatio...

Cryptochrome (CRY) is the principal light sensor of the insect circadian clock. Photoreduction of the Drosophila CRY (dCRY) flavin cofactor to the anionic semiquinone (ASQ) restructures a C-terminal tail helix (CTT) that otherwise inhibits interactions with targets that include the clock protein Timeless (TIM). All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations indicate that flavin reduction destabil...

PURPOSE The primary objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of late language emergence (LLE) and to investigate the predictive status of maternal, family, and child variables. METHOD This is a prospective cohort study of 1,766 epidemiologically ascertained 24-month-old singleton children. The framework was an ecological model of child development encompassing a wide range of...

The purpose of this study was to examining the effect of coach’s feedback behaviors on intrinsic motivation and satisfaction in elite athletes of Golestan province. Athletes from 10 teams comprised basketball, volleyball, Karate & Kabaddi (N= 97 male + 58 female) completed coaching feedback questionnaire (CFQ) intrinsic motivation Inventory (IMI) and athlete satisfaction questionnaire (ASQ). Cr...

This study investigated the features of developmental difficulties combined with sensory defects in children with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Following a large rubella outbreak in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, in 2011, we enrolled 41 children with CRS from September 2011 through May 2013. Fourteen participants died and six became untraceable by October 2013; the remaining 21 children were...

AIM The aim of this study was to establish the construct validity of the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS(©) ),a tool designed to measure changes in communication skills in preschool children. METHOD Participating families' children (n=97; 68 males, 29 females; mean age 2y 8mo; SD 1.04y, range 10mo-4y 11mo) were recruited through eight Canadian organizations. The childr...