[email protected] Editor – We read with interest the study by Chan et al into the effect of needling HT7 on psychological stress in hospice staff. We agree that stress in hospice staff is an important problem and that a simple effective treatment would be useful. However, although Chan et al aimed to measure reductions in psychological stress, we feel that the outcome measure they chose wa...

The relationship of clinicians' ratings of depression in adolescents to self-rating is important to clinical research. The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) and the Carroll Self-Rating Scale (CSRS) were compared in a study of 81 psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents. The correlation of CSRS and HRSD total scores in adolescents with melancholic major depression was 0.46, lower than ...

In all clinical and research work, it is important not only to have uniform diagnostic criteria but also some means of objectively quantifying the presence and severity of the illness being studied. For this purpose, a number of ra t ing scales have been devised for depressive disorders, probably the single most commonly used one being the Hamilton Ra t ing Scale (Hamil ton, 1960). The total sc...

Developing rating scales for assessing interactional performance is demanding since it is a relatively complicated procedure. The present study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the CAP rating scale (Wang, 2015) for assessing interactional competence at micro-level. To this end, 160 Iranian intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on TOEFL iBT test from ...

The purpose of this research is to develop a morphologically determined scale—the Tomography Dementia Rating scale (TDR) to diagnose AD stages, based on the measurement of the severity of voluminal atrophic changes of the temporal lobes of the brain detected among patients during CT and MRI at various stages of the disease. The research included 140 patients aged 28 79. Test Group comprised 81 ...

The psychometric properties of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Rating scale (Eaves, 2003) and the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (Gilliam, 1995) were investigated in this study. One hundred thirty-four individuals with autism, other pervasive developmental disorders, or conditions frequently confused with autism participated in the study. The results indicated that, with one exception, the r...

T H E EXPERIENCE-RATING provisions of 50 State unemployment insurance laws operated during 1947 to reduce by almost half the amount that would have been collectible at the standard tax rate. War-risk contributions, which in 1943, 1944, and 1945 had counteracted the experience-rating reductions to some extent, were not payable in 1947. In 1946, the year for which information is at hand, warrisk ...

We describe a methodology of rating the influence of a Twitter account in this famous microblogging service. We then evaluate it over real accounts, under the belief that influence is not only a matter of quantity (amount of followers), but also a mixture of quality measures that reflect interaction, awareness, and visibility in the social sphere. The authors of this paper have created “Influen...

Evaluation of the performance of electro-optical payload within the laboratory is discussed. This method is valid for the system, which has output in the form of electrical signal though the input is optical in nature. The methodology enables the evaluation of entire configuration of electro-optical payload comprising of lens system, photo detecting device (one or two dimension array) and proce...