A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity
Summary An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation be...
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Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology.
In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming p...
Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science
Empirically analyzing empirical evidence One of the central goals in any scientific endeavor is to understand causality. Experiments that seek to demonstrate a cause/effect rela...
Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities
We provide an updated version of the Compendium of Physical Activities, a coding scheme that classifies specific physical activity (PA) by rate of energy expenditure. It was dev...
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable ...
Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
The new curves are closely aligned with the WHO Child Growth Standards at 5 years, and the recommended adult cut-offs for overweight and obesity at 19 years. They fill the gap i...
DrugBank 5.0: a major update to the DrugBank database for 2018
DrugBank (www.drugbank.ca) is a web-enabled database containing comprehensive molecular information about drugs, their mechanisms, their interactions and their targets. First de...
k-ANONYMITY: A MODEL FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY
Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data. Suppose the data holder wants to share a ve...
Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies
16S ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) amplicon analysis remains the standard approach for the cultivation-independent investigation of microbial diversity. The accuracy of these analyse...
Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies
Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or tool kit of habits, skills, and styles from which ...