Memory deficits in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been frequently reported but are not sufficiently accounted for by cognitive models of OCD. The aim of the study was to identify cognitive mechanisms that might be able to explain memory deficits in OCD. We hypothesized that a self-conscious meta-cognitive style might be responsible for reduced memory performance in OCD. ...

Research has shown that psychosocial and health characteristics may affect older adults' cognitive performance, self-referent beliefs, and general adaptive resilience. Are such characteristics related specifically to older adults' reported efforts to compensate for memory losses? The Memory Compensation Questionnaire (MCQ) measures 5 mechanisms of everyday memory compensation as well as 2 gener...

OBJECTIVE The Cockcroft-Gault and Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations poorly predict glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline in diabetic patients. We sought to discover whether new equations based on serum creatinine (the Mayo Clinic Quadratic [MCQ] or reexpressed MDRD equations) or four cystatin C-based equations (glomerular filtration rate estimated via cystatin formula [C...

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) plays a major role in educational assessment as well as in active learning. In this paper we present a system that generates MCQs automatically using a sports domain text as input. All the sentences in a text are not capable of generating MCQs; the first step of the system is to select the informative sentences. We propose a novel technique to select informative s...

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are the most common and computably tractable ways of assessing the knowledge of a student, but they restrain the students to express a precise answer that doesn’t really represent what they know, leaving no room for ambiguities or doubts. We propose Ev-MCQs (Evidential MCQs), an application of belief function theory for the management of the uncertainty and impr...

Knowledge formalized in ontologies can assist Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) in generating question items like multiple choice questions (MCQs), to assess the level of knowledge of a learner. Existing ontology based MCQ generation techniques generate unmanageably large number of questions, but not necessarily all are relevant to the domain. These question items need to be vetted by human ex...