OBJECTIVE Virtual touch tissue quantification (VTQ) of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) is a new quantitative technique to measure tissue stiffness. The study was aimed to assess the usefulness of VTQ in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. METHODS 173 pathologically proven thyroid nodules in 142 patients were included and all were examined by conventional ultrasound (US), conventional el...

Les données de la recherche sont progressivement considérées comme des productions scientifiques à part entière, dans toutes les communautés disciplinaires. Dans le contexte Science ouverte, plus en d’exigences émises par financeurs et politiques publiques général pour mieux produire, structurer, conserver ouvrir ces données. L’acc&#...

Subjective appetite is commonly measured using an abstract visual analogue scale (VAS) technique, that provides no direct information about desired portion size or food choice. The purpose of this investigation was to develop and validate a user-friendly tool - the Visual Meal Creator (VIMEC) - that would allow for independent, repeated measures of subjective appetite and provide a prediction o...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a relatively new construct in differential psychology. Proponents of EI have made strong claims for its importance in basic and applied psychology. This article considers whether the promise of EI has been fulfilled. We examine various fundamental challenges to establishing EI as a major individual differences factor, including cross-cultural issues. We then exami...

The current research aimed to examine the nexus of relationships between emotional intelligence (EI) and adaptive coping with stressful encounters among adolescents. More specifically, the study assesses the extent to which EI uniquely facilitates adaptive coping, beyond the effects of general intelligence and personality dimensions. The research is based on Mayer and Salovey’s (1997) definitio...

OBJECTIVE The increasing complexity of the healthcare environment calls for increasing emotional intelligence (EI) competence in nurses. This study assessed the EI competence of 164 baccalaureate nursing alumni who graduated during the years 2007-2010 from three Benedictine institutions located in the Midwestern United States to see if there was growth of EI with experience as a registered nurs...

Trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) is generally associated with positive outcomes and can inform clinical and social interventions. We investigated the sub-factors of trait EI: Wellbeing, Self-control, Emotionality, and Sociability, in the context of the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) of motivation. In Study 1, participants (N = 247) completed Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS scal...

(V,A, c) be a directed network with node set V , arc set A = {e1, · · · , em}, and capacities on arcs c : A 7→ R+, where R+ is the set of non-negative rational numbers. Let s, t ∈ V be two distinct nodes, designated as the source and the destination. Let P = {p1, · · · , pk} be the set of s-t paths in G. Let aij = 1 if arc ei ∈ A lies on path pj ∈ P and aij = 0 otherwise. Let f : P 7→ R+ be a f...