22 Background: The ability to act on and justify clinical decisions as autonomous accountable midwifery 23 practitioners, is encompassed within many international regulatory frameworks, yet decision-making 24 within midwifery is poorly defined. Decision-making theories from medicine and nursing may have 25 something to offer, but fail to take into consideration midwifery context and philosophy ...

There is many software development methodologies exist that is used to control the process of developing a software system. No exact system was found which could help the software engineers for selection of best software development methodology. This paper present the framework of expert system combined with Likert scale. With the help of Likert scale we create a rule based model and assign som...

introduction: pain is the most common complaint of patients referring to emergency department (ed). considering the importance of pain management in ed, this study aimed to investigate the efficacy and feasibility of ultrasound-guided nerve blocks in this setting. methods: 46 patients who came to the ed with injured extremities were enrolled in the study and received either femoral, axillary or...

the aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sport motivation and athletic burnout in male soccer players participating in the 12th universiade in iran. the research method was descriptive/correlational method. 160 players who were members of soccer teams of universities completed these 2 questionnaires: 1- sport motivation scale (sms) by pelletier et al. (1995) with 24 items ...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) theory has stirred up interest of researchers and policy makers. As opposed to mere reliance on Intelligent Quotient (IQ) as contributing to success in education, proponents of EI theory emphasize its fundamental role in different aspects of academic achievement. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore the relationship between EI and writing ability of Iranian ...

Likert, Likert-type, and ordinal-scale responses are very popular psychometric item scoring schemes for attempting to quantify people's opinions, interests, or perceived efficacy of an intervention and are used extensively in Physical Education and Exercise Science research. However, these numbered measures are generally considered ordinal and violate some statistical assumptions needed to eval...

Objectives: There is an increasing need for a larger and better trained workforce in medical informatics. The goal of the American Medical Informatics Association 10×10 program is to educate 10,000 clinicians in medical informatics by the year 2010. Methods: We adapted an on-line introductory graduate course toward this goal. It was evaluated using Likert-scale and open-ended questions. Results...

Emotional Reaction (five-point Likert scale ranging from " Not at all " to " A great deal ") Indicate the extent to which you experienced each of the following emotion when the introduction of [system name] was announced: Mean St. dev. Adaptation Behaviors (seven-point Likert scale ranging from " Never " to " Many times a day ") Indicate the extent to which you performed each of the behaviors b...