The present study aimed to construct a Psychic Energy Scale by computing Exploratory Factor Analysis to validate the Psychic Energy Scale, before administering the EFA, the data was analysed for its sampling adequacy. The factor analysis was employed separately on each sub scale. Initially, seven items measure was administered to 120 Indian artistic gymnasts from different Gymnastics Centre of ...

Inventory of differential units of a deteriorating item purchased in a lot and sold separately from two shops under a single management is considered. Here deterioration increases with time and demands are timeand price-dependent for fresh and deteriorated units respectively. For the fresh units, shortages are allowed and later partially-backlogged. For the deteriorated units, there are two sce...

Recently, the researchers mostly are interested in only the search for the data content that are globally similar to the query, not the search inside data items. This paper presents an algorithm, called \generalized virtual node (GVN)" algorithm, to search for data items where parts of them (sub-datatype) are similar to the incoming query. We call this \sub-datatype"-based multimedia retrieval....

BACKGROUND Despite an increase in research devoted to primary care attributes, the patient benefits and educational aspects of broad scope practice of primary care physicians (PCPs) have not been well studied, due to a lack of validated measurement in each country. The objective of this study was to develop and validate the Scope of Practice Inventory (SPI) to measure physicians' scope of pract...

This study describes and validates the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire (IFSQ), a self-report instrument designed to measure feeding beliefs and behaviors among mothers of infants and young children. Categorical confirmatory factor analysis was used to estimate latent factors for five feeding styles, laissez-faire, restrictive, pressuring, responsive and indulgent, and to validate that items ...

How can we maintain a dynamic profile capturing a user’s reading interest against the common interest? What are the queries that have been asked 1, 000 times more frequently to a search engine from users in Asia than in North America? What are the keywords (or tags) that are 1, 000 times more frequent in the blog stream on computer games than in the blog stream on Hollywood movies? To answer su...

At the beginning of the design and construction of the STAR Detector, the collaboration assigned a team of physicists and engineers the responsibility of coordinating the construction of the detector. This group managed the general space assignments for each sub-system and coordinated the assembly and planning for the detector. Furthermore, as this group was the only STAR group with the respons...

We present two scalable model-based clustering systems based on a Gaussian mixture model with independent attributes within clusters. They first summarize data into sub-clusters, and then generate Gaussian mixtures from their clustering features using a new algorithm — EMACF. EMACF approximates the aggregate behavior of each sub-cluster of data items in the Gaussian mixture model. It provably c...

BACKGROUND Comparisons of population health status using self-report measures such as the SF-36 rest on the assumption that the measured items have a common interpretation across sub-groups. However, self-report measures may be sensitive to differential item functioning (DIF), which occurs when sub-groups with the same underlying health status have a different probability of item response. This...