There is a great demand to assess video quality transmitted in real time over packet networks, and to make this assessment in real time too. Quality assessment is achieved using two types of methods: objective or subjective. Subjective methods give more reliable results than objective methods; the latter do not always correlate well with human perception. Unfortunately, subjective methods are n...

OBJECTIVE To assess the self-perception of oral health status of the elderly and to analize the clinics, subjectives and sociodemographic factors that interfer in this perception. METHODS Results are based on interviews and clinical assessment of 201 subjects aged 60 years and over, who were dentate, functionally independents and used to go to a health care center in the town of Araraquara, S...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic evidence on the association of individual antioxidant vitamins and cognition is inconsistent. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the total antioxidant capacity of diets on the basis of the ferric-reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay in relation to cognition in older women. DESIGN Starting in 1995, we used a telephone-based cognitive assessment to evaluate cognitive function ...

We use prospective couple-level data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples to assess the extent to which spouses concur in their assessments of marital quality (N= 844) and whether discrepancies in spouses’ marital assessments affect the bereaved spouse’s psychological adjustment 6 months after loss (n= 105). Spouses’ assessments of marital quality are correlated modestly (r= .45), with wome...

Synephrine is a plant constituent which is found, for example, in bitter oranges (Citrus aurantium) and which is chemically related to ephedrine. Some products offered as sports and weight loss supplements contain synephrine in the form of added bitter orange extract. Often such products contain caffeine and other active ingredients. They are sometimes referred to by manufacturers as food suppl...

Detection and management of cancer-related symptoms is a key component in children’s quality of life. We evaluate symptoms and their severity in Iranian pediatric oncology outpatients using Therapy-Related Symptom Checklist for Children (TRSC-C). This was a cross-sectional study conducted in two outpatient pediatric oncology settings. We included all patients aged between 5-17 years. The valida...

The development of measures for assessing oral health status is essential to the evolution and maturation of a scientific knowledge based in geriatric dentistry. Their development as branches of clinical care depends in part as ability to demonstrate an effective grasp of the problems of elderly and their solutions. Any strategy for altering the health status of elderly requires a technology fo...

Golf is a global sport with professional golfers playing on many organized tours throughout the world. The largest and most important tours for male professionals include the PGA Tour, European Tour, Japanese Tour and Asian Tour. The Official World Golf Ranking, or OWGR, is a system for ranking male professional golfers on a single scale. We say a ranking system is unbiased if otherwise identic...

AIM The objective of this study was to investigate the satisfaction measure of analog and digital hearing aid users. STUDY DESIGN Clinical with transversal cohort. MATERIAL AND METHOD Among the 40 interviewed subjects, 20 were analog hearing aid users (Group I) and 20 were digital hearing aid users (Group II). The subjects had mild to moderate sensorineural hearing impairment, and were aged...

Growing evidence indicates that both positive and negative emotion potentially influence the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa, through both positive and negative reinforcement of weight loss activities. Such reactive emotional experience may be characterized by frequent and intense fluctuations in emotion, a construct known as "emotional instability." The purpose of this study wa...