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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the civic capacity index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
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Cooling Holes in Polymer Spur Gears: A Critical Analysis of Heat Dissipation Benefits and Mesh Stiffness Penalties

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Cooling holes provide a simple passive cooling strategy for polymer spur gears, reducing maximum operating temperature by up to 9.39% while introducing a measurable gear mesh stiffness penalty. A validated response‐surface model reveals how hole size and location govern this thermal–mechanical trade‐off, enabling design optimization for thermally and ...
Abderrahim Baccar, Ahmed Samet, Ahmed Hammami, Nuno Dourado, Ali Akrout, Mohamed Haddar   +5 more
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A Few Psychometric Properties of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale in Two Countries: A Pilot Study in Lithuania and Turkey

Psichologija
Culture is an important contextual factor affecting human attitudes and behavior. Reliable and valid instruments are needed to measure this complex phenomenon.
Tadas Vadvilavičius, Aurelija Stelmokienė   +1 more
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Factorial Validity and Invariance of the 7-Item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) Among Populations With and Without Self-Reported Psychiatric Diagnostic Status

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
The 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) is commonly used to monitor anxiety symptoms. However, its factor structure has been inconsistent among competing models: unidimensional, two-dimensional, or higher order models.
Satomi Doi, Masaya Ito, Yoshitake Takebayashi, Yoshitake Takebayashi, Kumiko Muramatsu, Masaru Horikoshi   +5 more
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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

Propiedades psicométricas de la Escala Autoaplicada de Zung para Ansiedad

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La Escala de Ansiedad de Zung, originalmente conocida como Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) y desarrollada por Zung en 1965, fue diseñada en 1971. En el siguiente estudio, se evaluaron las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala Autoaplicada de Zung ...
Lorena Delgado, Eva Karina Peña Contreras, Denise Cali, Paúl Arias   +3 more
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Burnout syndrome among dental students: a short version of the "Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire" adapted for students (BCSQ-12-SS)

BMC Medical Education, 2011
Background Burnout has been traditionally defined in relation to the dimensions of "exhaustion", "cynicism", and "inefficiency". More recently, the Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire (BCSQ-12) further established three different subtypes of burnout ...
Montero-Marin Jesus, Monticelli Francesca, Casas Marina, Roman Amparo, Tomas Inmaculada, Gili Margarita, Garcia-Campayo Javier   +6 more
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Multivariate Analysis of Hematological Stress Biomarkers and Welfare Domains in Organic and Intensive Pig Farming in Italy: A Pilot Study

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Intensive or organic farming systems may expose pigs to management or environmental challenges. Our preliminary results concluded that organic farming might enhance adaptive immune function, showing that improvements in welfare can translate into measurable immunological benefits, based on the correlation between welfare assessment and physiological ...
Dorotea Ippolito, Talal Hassan, Antonio Marco Maisano, Stefania Bergagna, Cecilia Guasco, Barbara Miniscalco, Martina Tarantola, Elena Colombino, Claudio Caruso, Ahsan Muhammad, Silvia Mioletti, Laura Tomassone, Massimiliano Tursi, Cristina Vercelli, Giovanni Loris Alborali, Maria Teresa Capucchio   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Factorial Validity of the Attitudes towards a Mainstreaming Scale [PDF]

Journal of Islamic Studies, 1999
The eighteen-item attitude mainstreaming scale , ATMS, was cross validated before administration to a Saudi Arabian sample of 510 principals and teachers of both special education and regular education.
Abdulaziz A bduljabbar
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Behavioral Incentives for Exercise and Intra‐Articular Glucocorticoids for Knee Osteoarthritis: Results From a Factorially Designed Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the benefit of a behaviorally designed incentive program and glucocorticoid injections in reducing symptoms and promoting physical activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Methods This was a pragmatic, multisite, factorially designed, blinded, randomized clinical trial.
Joshua F. Baker, Katherine D. Wysham, Mercedes Quinones, Bryant R. England, Kaitian Jin, Marianna Olave, Sarah Wetzel, Rachel L. Gillcrist, Criswell Lavery, Natalie Keller, Bridget Kramer, Bibianna Ateh, Hannah Brubeck, Daniel K. White, Alexis Ogdie, Rui Xiao, Tuhina Neogi, Carla R. Scanzello   +17 more
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