Results Early results from completed trials show considerable variation in the methods and instruments used to assess depression. The majority of studies have used symptom based instruments including the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Global Clinical Improvement Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, while other trials reported the use of clin...

A rating scale for drug-induced akathisia has been derived that incorporates diagnostic criteria for pseudoakathisia, and mild, moderate, and severe akathisia. It comprises items for rating the observable, restless movements which characterise the condition, the subjective awareness of restlessness, and any distress associated with the akathisia. In addition, there is an item for rating global ...

The purpose of this study was to summarize the literature describing patient outcomes following unicompartmental and bicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Original studies were included in this meta-analysis if they enrolled 10 or more patients at the time of an initial knee arthroplasty and measured patient outcomes using a global knee rating scale. Forty-six studies on unicompartmental prosthese...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

The present study investigated the effect of pragmatic eliciting tasks on EFL pre-intermediate learners speaking proficiency. Thus this study aimed at comparing the English language learners who practiced pragmatic eliciting tasks and the ones who used traditional speaking activities such as questions and answers, discussion, etc. In doing so, 40 learners out of 80 were selected through Oxford ...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Assessment of Fetal Well-Being American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Assessment of Fetal Well-Being Variant 1: Low-risk pregnancy. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US pregnant uterus biophysical profile 2 O US pregnant uterus modified biophysical profile 2 O US duplex Doppler velocimetry 2 O US echocardiography fet...

n recent years, the demand for sovereign credit rat-ings—the risk assessments assigned by the credit rating agencies to the obligations of central govern-ments—has increased dramatically. More governments with greater default risk and more companies domiciled in riskier host countries are borrowing in international bond markets. Although foreign government officials generally cooperate with the...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

interlanguage pragmatics (ilp) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. one of the under-explored domains of l2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ilp knowledge. therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (ipls) used by high vs. low l2 pragmatic achi...

In this paper, we propose a biclustering-based approach to identify dishonest advisors (who provide misleading opinions about sellers), while evaluating seller trustworthiness on multiple criteria. It considers correlation between advisors’ ratings to various criteria and trust transitivity to accurately filter the dishonest advisors. Evaluation results demonstrate the robustness of our approac...