THE INVENTORY OF PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION-REALITY TESTING SUBSCALE AND BELIEF IN SCIENCE SCALE: CONFIRMATORY FACTOR AND RASCH ANALYSIS OF THINKING STYLE MEASURES.

The Inventory of Personality Organization-Reality Testing Subscale (IPO-RT) and Belief in Science Scale (BIS) represent indirect, proxy measures of intuitive-experiential and analytical-rational thinking.However, a limited appraisal of factorial structure exists, and assessment of person-item functioning has not occurred.This study assessed the IPO

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSA) is a multifactorial disease that highly alters a persons quality of life.It is characterized by the repeated interruption of breathing during sleep, due to an obstruction or the collapse of the upper airways.Since it is a multifactorial etiological disorder, it requires a thorough diagnosis and treatment with

This paper presents the results of a study that sheds new light on the shape of indifference curves in the Marschak-Machina triangle.The most important observation, obtained non-parametrically, concerns jumps in indifference curves at the triangle legs towards the triangle origin.These jumps, however, do not appear at the hypotenuse.The pattern obs

Poisoning cases are coming to the Emergency Department (ED) pet calming peanut butter and cases are increasing day by day due to their easy and vast availability.Clinicians are frequently dealt with to manage critically ill poisoning patients.With the swing of prominence in managing poisoning from in-patient care to early decontamination and early

Priming techniques are gaining importance in agriculture with the increase in environmental stresses.Resource-poor farmers are in urgent need of such techniques as they are simple, economical, and value-added intervention associated with low-risk bearing factors.Seed enhancement methods are key to improve seed performance and achieve a good stand e