The article is devoted to the study of relationship between fact violation psychological boundaries, as a consequence active using informational technologies in everyday life, level meaningfulness life and coping strategies students. authors indicated relevance study, analyzed theoretical approaches phenomenon use context meaningful strategies. describes procedure empirical research. It has bee...

Seizure control, in addition to quality of life, is an important outcome after epilepsy surgery. However, seizure measurement is not straightforward. We explore some important difficulties in obtaining unbiased, reliable estimates of seizure frequency, and discuss aspects of data analysis as it pertains to validity and clinical meaningfulness. As seizure severity is an integral component of sei...

PURPOSE Our purpose was to explore two methods of expressing the performance of IVF programs. METHODS Using life-table methods, hazard and cure rates and a "monthly fecundability rate" were calculated for an Ontario IVF clinic. The rates were evaluated for their meaningfulness as indicators of the clinic's performance. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS While the hazard rate describes monthly fertilit...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to investigate whether the meaningfulness of experimental stimuli impacted performances during global/local visual tasks. Participants were presented with compound stimuli, based on either meaningful letters, meaningful objects, or meaningless non-objects. The ERP recordings displayed typical early components, P1 and N1, evoked by task-related proce...