The feasibility of a dietary survey tool is crucial for successful nutritional assessment via a community survey and for nutritional epidemiology. In 2012, we identified a newly developed computerized dietary survey system, the Diet Evaluation System (DES), which could be successfully applied to a community survey delivered during home visits using notebook computers when the internet environme...

INTRODUCTION The present study examines the inter-tester and intra-tester reliability of the recently developed scale for Screening of Activity Limitation and Safety Awareness (SALSA) in North-West Nigeria. The scale was developed through collaborative research in five countries around the world. METHODOLOGY One hundred and three people affected by leprosy from three states in North-West Nige...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Limited research indicates that using English language only surveys in prevalence studies conducted in the general population or in specific ethnic populations may result in unrepresentative samples and biased results. In this study, we investigated whether participants from ethnic minorities who chose to answer a study interview in a language other than English (LOTE) dif...

OBJECTIVE To investigate family members' experiences of involvement in a previous study (conducted August 1995 to June 1997) following their child's diagnosis with Ewing's sarcoma. DESIGN Retrospective survey, conducted between 1 November and 30 November 1997, using a postal questionnaire. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-one of 97 families who had previously completed an in-depth interview as part of a...

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

This thesis is concerned with concepts and procedures involved in the development of programs by which computers may interview people. Based on the hypothesis that the style of the questions is very important in a computer interview, an analysis of four medical interviewing programs was attempted. Two variables emerged from this analysis namely Encouragement (Encouraging Phrases) and Chattiness...

The role of nonverbal behavior in the employment interview inference process was investigated using a modified Brunswik lens model. Thirty-four job interviews for an actual research assistant position were conducted and videotaped. Job applicants' self-appraised motivation to work and social skill were assessed, and their nonverbal behaviors during the interview were scored. Eighteen judges wit...