BACKGROUND Ascites syndrome is the most severe manifestation of pulmonary hypertension in fast-growing broilers. The disease can be attributed to increased body weights of birds, where the higher metabolic load is not matched by sufficient oxygen supply to the cells and tissues. Although there are environmental components, the disease exhibits moderate to high heritability. The current study us...

BACKGROUND The development of short-form versions of child oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) scales has resulted in two closely related sets of measures. We set out to compare the properties and responsiveness of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS--both "child" and "family" versions) and short-form Parental-Caregiver Perceptions Questionnaire (P-CPQ) and the Family ...

Given two datasets DA and DB the closest-pair query (CPQ) retrieves the pair (a,b), where a ∈ DA and b ∈ DB, having the smallest distance between all pairs of objects. An extension to this problem is to generate the k closest pairs of objects (k-CPQ). In several cases spatial constraints are applied, and object pairs that are retrieved must also satisfy these constraints. Although the applicati...

Cannabis is a widely used substance among adolescents and young adults, but demand for help and treatment from this age group continues to be low. It is therefore essential to develop instruments especially designed for the early detection of problems associated with cannabis use in this population. The purpose of this work is to adapt and validate the CPQ-A (Adolescent Cannabis Problems Questi...

The construct of clinical perfectionism, conceptualized as a one-dimensional construct (Shafran, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2003), has drawn considerable debate because of the associated critique of multidimensional perfectionism’s relevance for clinical theory and research. Hence Dickie, Surgenor, Wilson, and McDowall’s (2012) finding that the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire (CPQ), designed to m...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the convergent validity between the domains of the Autoquestionnaire Qualité de Vie Enfant image (AUQUEI) and the Child Perceptions Questionnaire instrument (CPQ(11-14)) among schoolchildren and to assess the difference between socio-economic and clinical variables associated with their scores. METHODS An analytical cross-sectional study ...

BACKGROUND Ayurveda inventories for prakriti (constitution) have been developed and validated for adults. Children, however, require different categories of quarter and questions, for example, to assess the intelligence, the questions can be related to their scholastic performances. OBJECTIVE To develop and standardize an inventory to assess the prakriti of the children, and to compare with C...

BACKGROUND The Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ) is a self-reported questionnaire developed to measure oral health-related quality of life in children. The CPQ aims to improve the description of children's oral health, while taking into consideration the importance of psychological aspects in the concept of health. The CPQ exists in two versions: the CPQ8-10 for children aged 8-10 years and...

This thesis addresses the problem of finding the K closest pairs between two spatial datasets (the so-called, K Closest Pairs Query, K-CPQ), where each set is stored in an index structure belonging in the R-tree family. There are two different techniques for solving this kind of distance-based query. The first is the incremental approach [HjS98, SML00], which computes the operation in the sense...

Scores on the Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPO) were correlated with ratings on the Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale (DESB). Three judges matched scales from the two instruments that appeared to measure the same behavior. For about one-third of these matches significant correlations in the predicted direction were found. Of the 156 possible correlations between CPQ fact...