Relationships between premorbid adjustment, schizophrenia subtype, stimulus content, and size judgments of thematic stimuli were found to be substantially dependent on the seqeunces in which stimuli were presented. Individual differences in schizophrenics' size estimations were not simply related to premorbid adjustment, schizophrenic subtype, or to two common measures of chronicity—length of i...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify potentially important factors in explaining burnout in nursing that have been insufficiently studied or ignored. METHODS A three-round Delphi study via e-mail correspondence was conducted, with a group of 40 European experts. The e-Delphi questionnaire consisted of 52 factors identified from a literature review. Experts rated and scored the importance of...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of sociocultural attitude towards appearance questionnaire in female adolescents. Method: This was a methodological study. The English version of the questionnaire was translated into Persian, using forward-backward method. Then the face validity, content validity and reliability were checked. To ensure face validity, the ques...

The rapid growth of web applications increases the need to evaluate web applications objectively. In the past few years some valuable works like WebQEM tried to objectively evaluate the web applications. However, still weighting web attributes which is one step of evaluation of web applications is completely subjective, depending mostly on experts’ judgments. In this paper a two-step weighting ...

We consider resource allocation problems in which agents are assigned to tasks with the aim of (i) minimizing the assignment cost and (ii) maximizing the overall value resulting from the completion of tasks. Often, such assignment problems are challenging, because it may not be known to what extent the agents can complete tasks or what the value of either full or partial task completion is. Fur...

To act efficiently in the classroom, teachers need to be able to judge the difficulty of problems from a novice’s perspective. However, research suggests that experts use their own knowledge as an anchor, adjust estimations for others to their own knowledge and thus underestimate the difficulty that a problem may impose on novices. Similarly, experts should underestimate the benefit for novices...

A symmetrical 6 x 6 factorial design of distances and durations served to produce either 36 different moving stimuli (real movement condition) or 36 static displays separately containing the respective stimulus components (cognitive movement condition). Different metric rules underlay the two types of velocity judgments: Perceptual estimations of real movement obeyed a ratio model, whereas cons...