...' perceived control, to forcibly displaced populations. An internal LOC is generally considered beneficial for well-being in the Western context. However, the cross-cultural validity of this construct warrants further examination. This study aimed to capture the lived experiences of older Karen refugees...

... a novel synthetic biology strategy that involves the intravenous injection of a plasmid DNA-based synthetic construct into the host. This enables the liver, which has the ability to express transgenes through intravenous injection of naked DNA plasmids, to reconstitute and produce in vivo self...

..., initiation/perseveration, and visuospatial construction, and it has demonstrated good reliability ( Jurica et al., 2001 ). A lower total score on this measure indicates greater cognitive impairment. Total raw score was used in all analyses. Abstract Objective To establish convergent and discriminant...

... of constructs being employed. We provide an epistemological examination of its 14 most commonly measured relational constructs (e.g., Brand Love, Self-Brand Connection) collected from 767 research articles, reflecting 1,753 scales and approximately 9,200 items. We demonstrate that constructs overlap an average...

... and motor planning that does not require an actual motor response. Evidence suggests that visuospatial and visuoperceptual abilities play a role in a person’s constructional skills ( Grossi & Trojano, 2001 ; Guerin, Ska, & Belleville, 1999 ; Trojano et al., 2004 ). To discern whether the TVSC...

... construct validity criterion validity sensitivity to change Versus Arthritis 10.13039/501100012041 16081 Analysis with ordinal logistic regression showed that there was a significant association between increasing overall BILAG2004-P score with low C3 [OR 2.0 (95% CI 1.1, 3.5)] but not with low C4...

... to construct an FI-CGA and to assess its construct validity in the geriatric oncology setting. Methods Five hundred forty consecutive Japanese patients with cancer who underwent a CGA on a geriatric oncology service were included (median age 80 years, range 66–96 years). We developed a 10-item frailty...

... of the spine is an essential component of adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery because it maintains deformity correction, provides stability to unstable segments, and promotes higher fusion rates. ¹ If the construct extends to the sacrum, the lumbosacral (LS) junction remains at particular risk...

...Thor Grünbaum; Mark Schram Christensen In this section, we argue that the standard use of the notion of a sense of agency in cognitive neuroscience is ambiguous between four different possible constructs (ability vs phenomenal feel and bodily vs external, see Fig. 1A ). As long as studies do...

... operationalizations, issues of construct validity are critical to the veracity of claims made from empirical data. This manuscript considers the ways we can improve how we demonstrate construct validity when using survey items. Some of these improvements are associated with our discussions of the sources of construct...

... ABCD baseline sample, to further examine the psychometric properties and construct validity of the PQ-BC. First, we aimed to replicate measurement invariance across ethnicity and sex and demonstrate mean-level differences across ethnicities and sex. We also aimed to replicate associations between PQ-BC...

... communication researchers use meta-analyses to make claims and the prevalence, causes, and implications of unresolved heterogeneous findings. Heterogeneous findings can result from substantive moderators, methodological artifacts, and combined construct invalidity. An informal content analysis of meta-analyses...

...Yi-Jiun Chen; Ya-Yun Cheng; Weikang Wang; Xiao-Jun Tian; Daniel E Lefever; David A Taft; Jingyu Zhang; Jianhua Xing CRISPR knock-in donor construct in silico screening molecular cloning In a cell, there are multiple signaling pathways that respond to intracellular and extracellular signals...

... a singular perception of such marriage as forced and harmful, while those who oppose the international approach in Iran merely focus on the Islamic roots of the current legislation. In practice, marriage is a complicated social construct. To address early marriage, one should analyse different causes...

... a neutral alignment but severe occipitoatlantal subluxation may subsequently occur, with cranial settling, spinal cord kinking, and neurological injury. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of posterior fixation constructs to prevent progression to severe deformity after radical unilateral condylectomy...

... a concern. Similarly, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) still has limited use in the validation of EFA-based DPs and in the development of constructs representing correlation structures among FGs and among DPs. Even though this should be the first step for the generalization of DPs to other studies...

... deficits Construct validation Geriatric syndrome Measurement Vulnerability Frailty has been theoretically defined as a clinically recognizable state of increased vulnerability. This vulnerability is believed to result from aging-associated decline in reserve and function across multiple physiologic...

... algorithm have been made. In this article we discuss these improvements and observations that we made with regard to misuse and misinterpretation of the DII and provide suggestions for future developments. Dietary Inflammatory Index dietary assessment methods inflammation construct validation...

.... STARD diagram. Abstract Objective The relationship between depression and sports-related concussion is complex and has implications both pre- and post-injury. The current study established the construct validity, convergent and discriminant, of the affective symptom cluster of The Immediate Post...

...Mark Boukes; Alyssa C Morey Context effects are indicative of potential problems with construct validity. This study examines criterion-oriented validity to examine which measures of political discussion frequency—or more precisely, which survey contexts—produce more valid measurements ( Cronbach...