OBJECTIVES Mastication is an essential function that prepares the food for swallowing and digestion and may be related to nutritional status. Thus, the aims of this study were to evaluate the masticatory parameters in overweight and obese children and the relation between bite force and anthropometric evaluation, food consistency, breast/bottle-feeding, and occlusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Th...

Perceptual learning, improvement in perceptual skill with practice, can improve both accuracy and consistency of perceptual reports. Regression statistics can quantify ongoing calibration of perceptible scalar properties (i.e., improvements in accuracy and consistency) because, ideally, actual and perceived values are linearly related. Changes in variance accounted for (r2) track changes in con...

ÐA common way to address scalability requirements of distributed services is to employ server replication and client caching of objects that encapsulate the service state. The performance of such a system could depend very much on the protocol implemented by the system to maintain consistency among object copies. We explore scalable consistency protocols that never require synchronization and c...

Measuring consistency of preferences is very important in decision-making. This paper addresses this key issue for interval-valued reciprocal preference relations. Existing studies implement one of two different measures: the “classical” consistency measure, and the “boundary” consistency measure. The classical consistency degree of an interval-valued reciprocal preference relation is determine...

ÐIn this paper, an empirical study that links software process consistency with product defects is reported. Various measurement issues such as validity, reliability, and other challenges in measuring process consistency at the project level are discussed. A measurement scale for software process consistency is introduced. An empirical study that uses this scale to measure consistency in achiev...

Regions with great natural environmental complexity present a challenge for the development of stream bioassessment indices that are effective for both regional condition assessments and site scale assessments, such as those used for regulatory applications. Tools intended for site scale applications must provide accurate biological interpretations on a site-by-site basis in all environmental s...

flow characteristics and rheological parameters of “malas yazdi” pomegranate (punica granatum l.) juice were investigated using rotational viscometer at different temperatures (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70ºc) and concentrations (12, 22, 32, 42 and 52º brix). the experimental data had the best fitness with herschel-bulkley model and the values of flow behavior index (n) varied between 0.97 and ...

abstract introduction: standardized tests in speech therapy mostly focus onlanguage structure rather than the use of language in social context. so, there is a clear need for instruments to assess pragmatic aspects of language. children’s communicationchecklist (ccc) and its revised version, ccc-2, was developed to address this need, however, its psychometric features are unknown in iran. the c...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the equivalence of translations of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI). PATIENTS AND METHODS Confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess equivalence of the US version and several translations including (1) Dutch, (2) Flemish Dutch (Belgium), (3) UK English, (4) French, (5) German, (6) Italian, (7) Portuguese and (8) Swedish. VHI questionnaires were gathered from 1,...