OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation of fatigue with pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients and with disability in osteoarthritis patients. METHODS Twenty patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 20 patients with osteoarthritis were evaluated. The degree of fatigue was evaluated with a visual analogue scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue. Pain was evaluated with a visual anal...

The Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) is the most comprehensive instrument to assess body image. The MBSRQ-Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) is a reduced version that has been validated in other languages. The main aim of the present study was to confirm the factor structure of the Spanish version of the MBSRQ-AS and analyze its psychometric properties in 1041 nonclinical in...

We are interested in the energetic cost of a martensitic inclusion of volume V in austenite for the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transformation. In contrast with the work of [Knüpfer, Kohn, Otto: Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 66 (2013), no. 6, 867–904], we consider domain with a corner and obtain a better scaling law for the minimal energy (Emin ∼ min(V , V )). Our predictions are in a good agreement wit...

In this study, it has been aimed to examine athletes' body perception and gender role. 120 male athletes and 120 non-athletic male university students participated in the study voluntarily. In the study, as the data collecting means, The Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-MBSRQ was used in order to determine males' body perception levels, BEM Sex Role Inventory-BSRI was used to ...

This paper examines the impact of microfinance institutions on development in an empirical setting, and therewith aims at filling a gap in econometric assessments of microfinance institutions. Using data of MFIs operating in selected African and Asian countries and choosing average savings and loan balances per client as proxies for development, there is empirical evidence for significant posit...

Method: The study included 64 patients (patient group) diagnosed with depression according to DSM IV and 71 volunteers (comparison group) without a psychiatric diagnosis. The participants were given a questionnaire to collect data on their demographic characteristics and life circumstances, along with the Interpersonal Style Scale, Brief Symptom Inventory, Multidimensional Anger Scale, Social C...

design methods for paraunitary matrices from complete orthogonal sets of idempotents and related matrix structures are presented. these include techniques for designing non-separable multidimensional paraunitary matrices. properties of the structures are obtained and proofs given. paraunitary matrices play a central role in signal processing, in particular in the areas of filterbanks and wavelets.

The aim of this study is the development a short self-report tool Multidimensional Emotional Competence Questionnaire (MECQ). MECQ consists 109 items representing 11 factors resulting in an ineffective usability combination with other measurement instruments and constitutes reason for study. Based on selection criteria at content statistical level, results analyses 777 participants suggest crea...