OBJECTIVE AND METHOD To inform the classification of bulimic-type eating disorders not meeting formal diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa (BN), levels of eating disorder psychopathology and functional impairment associated with subjective and objective bulimic episodes (SBEs and OBEs) and purging and nonpurging methods of weight control were examined in a large community-based sample of wom...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the degree of divergence between BMI calculated from subjective assessments and BMI calculated from measured height and weight as a function of gender and body image. METHODS In the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) the height and weight of 17,641 children and adolescents aged 0-18 years were measured. Pa...

To solve the shortage defects of wireless spectrum source of Internet of things, an idle spectrum resources and immune sorting selection method based on the subjective and objective weight is proposed by using cognitive radio network technology. Firstly, the radio cognitive idle spectrum system is relied on to make the spectrum system modeling of Internet of things for the generation of objecti...

Image quality demands have been investigated for different applications of stereoscopic evaluation. For that purpose, the quality of image pairs was judged by experienced stereo operators in subjective sc ales for contrast, sharpness, granularity, interpretability and overall quality. The judgment was made in real working situations with the images oriented in stereo instruments. The result sho...

In Geng, Weiss, and Wol (2011), we pointed to the possibility that a voting mechanism may create or strengthen an entitlement e ect in political-power holders relative to a random-appointment mechanism. This comment documents that such an e ect, if it exists, is not robust.

Objectives Estimates of occupation-specific tinnitus prevalence may help identify high-risk occupations where interventions are warranted. The authors studied the effect of occupation on prevalence of bothersome tinnitus and estimated the attributable fraction due to occupation. The authors also studied how much of the effect remained after adjusting for noise exposure, education income, hearin...