in islam, there is special emphesize about the effect of spirituality on humans’ physical and psychological health. one of the very new construct in spirituality is spiritual capital and other is spiritual wellbeing. current research was carried out with the aim of construction spiritual capital and well being scales. sample group was 294 people, which selected through simple random sampling.­ ...

The Measure Athletes’ Volition consists of 23 items that measure six elements of volitional competences. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether a subset of these items could form a short version of the scale; to provide evidence for the structural validity and internal consistency of the short version; and to test validity issues of the new scale. A total of 831 individuals fro...

BACKGROUND Early Dementia Questionnaire (EDQ) was developed as a screening tool to detect patients with early dementia in primary care. It was developed based on 20 symptoms of dementia. From a preliminary study, EDQ had been shown to be a promising alternative for screening of early dementia. This study was done to further test on EDQ's reliability and validity. METHODS Using a systematic ra...

OBJECTIVES Our first objective was to make an inventory of available instruments for the assessment of disabilities in gait and related activities in patients with rheumatic disorders. Our second aim was to investigate which of these instruments have acceptable methodological quality with regard to reliability and validity. Our third aim was to investigate the assumption that the evaluation of ...

In a recent project the Ada language turned out to be not as flexible as we expected it to be. This forced us to model our application in a way that was less elegant, less maintainable and less efficient. In this paper we propose to add a language construct to the language that would enable us to do what we were missing. The extension is based on finite unions with dispatching and can quite eas...

educators have been preoccupied with individual differences in learning for quite a long time. one way of addressing these differences has been a focus on learning styles. understanding students’ learning styles is important for the quality of instructional design. a major problem in measuring the learning styles of learners of english as a foreign language (efl) is the development of a valid a...

A hyperbolic bration is set of q ?1 hyperbolic quadrics and two lines which together partition the points of PG(3; q). The classical example of a hyperbolic bration comes from a pencil of quadrics; however, several other families are known. In this paper we construct a new family of hyperbolic brations for odd prime powers q. As an application of hyperbolic brations, we note that they can be us...

background: the endometriosis health profile-30 (ehp-30) is a disease-specific questionnaire to measure the health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the persian version of endometriosis health pro-file (ehp-30) in women with endometriosis referring to three gynecology clinics in tehran, iran. methods: on...