INTRODUCTION The prevalence of malnutrition upon diagnosis, together with reduced food intake secondary to disease and treatment, make the periodic assessment of nutritional status (including the intake of antioxidant nutrients) of considerable importance to the follow up of patients with cancer. OBJECTIVES Assess the nutritional status and frequency of inadequate vitamin C levels among child...

The authors analyzed self-reported SAT scores and actual SAT scores for five different samples of college students (N = 650). Students overestimated their actual SAT scores by an average of 25 points (SD = 81, d = .31), with 10% under-reporting, 51% reporting accurately, and 39% over-reporting, indicating a systematic bias towards over-reporting. The amount of overreporting was greater for lowe...

PURPOSE This study examined the use of the Tucker linear equating method in producing an individual student's score in 3 groups with bridging stations over 3 consecutive days of the clinical performance examination (CPX) and compared the differences in scoring patterns by bridging number. METHODS Data were drawn from 88 examinees from 3 different CPX groups-DAY1, DAY2, and DAY3-each of which ...

BACKGROUND Subjective functional outcomes measurements, such as vision health-related quality of life (VRQoL) and self-rated satisfaction measures can provide helpful multidimensional vision health information that is more comprehensive than traditional objective measures, such as best corrected visual acuity (BCVA). The purpose of this study is to demonstrate 3-year longitudinal postoperative ...

Abstract With a view to solving the mismatches between ideas of questioners and respondents Question Answer (Q&A) sites, impression evaluation experiments have resulted in obtaining nine factors impressions. Then through multiple regression analysis factor scores been estimated by utilizing feature values statements, such as syntactic information, etc. Those calculated were subsequently emp...