... articles These questions were then used to create the QAHITs Workers were presented with a question and a corresponding article The task was to answer the questions (if possible) through sentence selection ... articles, the resulting questions were uploaded tothe system as HITs Each of these QAHITs presented a single question with the corresponding original article The worker s task was to select either ... the questions were answered by means of sentence selection, the simplest method to check the agreement between the workers was to compare the ids ofthe selected sentences The agreement was calculated...
... of parses the g r a m m a r proposes for each sentence ofthe test set Second, results are presented for the statistical task, which is to ensure t h a t the parse which is selected as most likely, ... of parses for the entire test corpus The statisticaltask is to supply a stochastic model for probabilisticallytraining the g r a m m a r such that the parse selected as the most likely one is ... parse" and is used to judge the grammar 's parse To fulfill this role, treebank parses are constructed as "skeleton parses," i.e so that all obvious decisions are made as to part -of- speech labels,...
... informed ofthe purpose and nature ofthe study, requirements and responsibilities of subjects, and risks and benefits, families agreeing to participate in the first two studies were mailed a questionnaire ... the study Data analysis SPSS for Windows 14.0.2 [29] was used to recode and score the instruments Descriptive statistics were used for the General Health History Survey The Socioeconomic Index Score ... developmentand implications ofthe instrument for theory development, future research, and clinical practice are discussed below ScaleDevelopmentThe concept of focus for developmentof this scale was...
... this study should include statistics measuring the agreement between two observers To address this, statistical measurements of inter-observer agreement was required As the task classification and ... task analysis The process of developing the software andthe task lists would likely be supportive for other studies since this job task analysis instrument could be extended to other contexts ... recorded the same task but with a time delay of more than seconds or if they observed totally different tasks Results show the percentage of hits out ofthe total number of hits and misses during the...
... Clinical Samples A total of 620 human serum samples from febrile patients clinically suspected of having dengue fever were collected within to days from the time of onset of symptoms These samples were ... lack of proper evaluation with clinical samples To improve on the existing assay systems, we standardized a one step single tube protocol for rapid serotyping of dengue viruses This assay can be ... period of hours compared to hours in two-step typing assays This can provide faster information tothe clinicians leading to initiation of suitable symptomatic therapy This single tube protocol also...
... loads were classified as unnecessary switches in this study This is because there is no clear evidence to justify the additional cost and bill burden of switching these patients to a PI-based ... history to be strongly associated with viral status [25-30] While the best method for assessing adherence in busy African ART clinics has yet to be defined [20,30-32], careful assessment and support ... underestimate ofthe true viral failure rate The cross-sectional design of our study also limits our method of adherence measurement and creates the possibility of recall bias Prospective studies...
... results using processors or less, and for GOF sizes of up to 16 frames The ideal speed-up is surpassed in many instances, overall up to 16 frames per GOF, and between and 16 processors In these ... highpass bands According tothe classic algorithm, in the second level, only the low-pass band is processed for its further decomposition As seen from the figure, the second level decomposition results ... transforms, such as the FFT, DCT, and wavelet transforms Some efforts have focused on special architectures for the fast computation of some of these transforms For instance, in [10] Modarressi and...
... ventricular systole It was expressed as the systolic coronary pressure The diastolic coronary pressures ofthe extracorporeal hearts were also shown in Table during the left ventricular diastole and ... the perfusion system Each of these stopping times lasted almost one minute This entire process took about 10minutes During these 10 minutes, the fibrous attachment between the aorta andthe pulmonary ... “P180” is the last coronary pressure after 180 minutes of perfusion The value of “P10” is the first coronary pressure after 10 minutes of perfusion The mean of these variations is 72% in the control...
... Developmentandevaluationof a tool for the assessment of footwear characteristics compressed folder The compressed folder contains a web links tothe footwear assessment tool, the motion control scale, ... andthe absence of pressure on the dorsal aspect ofthe toes and nails was considered to categorise depth as adequate or too shallow [17] Item General features Age of shoe The age ofthe shoe is ... ulcerations and amputations [14], and foot deformities such has hallux valgus and hammer toes [15] Developmentofthe footwear assessment tool Consideration of previously published tools [17-20], other...
... ofthe teststrip results can be performed with the naked eye and total assay time is less than 15 Specificity, sensitivity and stability ofthe ICS test The specificity ofthe ICS test was evaluated ... Simultaneously, compared with the gold standard assay, NT, the sensitivity ofthe ICS test was significantly higher than the NT Unlike these commonly used assays, the ICS test for the detection of DEV-specific ... number of ICS tothe negative number of ELISA is 82.61% b The consistency ratio ofthe positive number of ICS tothe positive number of NT is 19.51% and that ofthe negative number of ICS to the...
... orpiment in the activity andthe mechanisms of action and basis of toxicity could be due tothe difference in the valency states of these compounds The difference in the rate of absorption of arsenic ... though the mechanisms of carcinogenicity remain unclear The lack of suitable animal models as well as poor understanding of its carcinogenic/genotoxic mechanisms hampers accurate risk assessment of ... was used in the treatment of leukemia, skin conditions (psoriasis, dermatitis herpetiformism and eczema), stomatitis and gingivitis in infants, and Vincent s angina It was also prescribed as...
... basic words and expressions; user queries, however, range from basic to specialised vocabulary and include all sorts of expressions, spelling mistakes and even queries in languages other than Slovenian ... closed class items quired from the corpus analysis and from the user requests, hardly overlap The results show that in order to enhance corpus coverage, the insertion of seven frequent closed ... occurrences In contrast to these findings, user queries mainly concern open class items: Only two ofthe top 30 missing lemmas from the query evaluation are neither verbs nor nouns For details on the...
... repayment track record andthe quality ofthe systems used to manage them The promise of repeat loans andthe pressures of group or personal guarantees, and sometimes pledges of movable assets, ... RCBs and S& Ls using informal agents, groups or CBOs to mobilize or to onlend funds; NGOs using RCBs and S& Ls to handle the funds for their microfinance programs; Susu collectors and clubs using ... banks, RCBs and S& Ls to deposit funds New Products from Old As noted in the discussion ofthe susu system in Chapter II, licensed RCBs and S& Ls (as well as some commercial banks) have utilized the...
... This measure includes twenty items comprising six scales reflecting major dimensions of depression: depressed mood, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, ... of factors was not specified Item -to- total scale correlations were assessed using the Pearson s correlation between individual item scores andthe total subscale score for the associated subscale ... Outcomes 2009, 7:83 SPSS Inc: SPSS for Windows, Rel 11.5.0 Chicago: SPSS Inc 2002 Scientific Advisory Committee ofthe Medical Outcomes Trust: Assessing health status and quality -of- life instruments:...
... discrimination across dimensions, that is items were more strongly correlated with their hypothesized dimensions than with the other dimensions ofthe instrument Based on the results ofthe psychometric ... on the pooled population The robustness ofthe structure ofthe "sleep disturbance" and "somnolence" multi-item dimensions andthe sleep problems index ofthe MOS-Sleep versions was demonstrated, ... published test-retest reliability assessment for the MOS-Sleep Table 4: Spearman correlation coefficients between MOS-Sleep scores and SF-36 scores at baseline (N = 396) SF-36 scores MOS-Sleep scores...
... on thedevelopmentand validity ofthe ITAS Methods Developmentof ITAS The ITAS was developed to capture type diabetes patient 's current appraisal of insulin therapy The instrument assesses both ... instrument has potential to assess changes in the appraisal of insulin over time, both in individuals and groups Future research should establish its test-retest reliability and responsiveness http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/69 ... than the absence of distress symptoms: a comparison ofthe SF-36 Mental Health subscale andthe WHO-Five Well-Being Scale Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2003, 12:385-401 Awata S, Bech P, Yoshida S, ...
... NC) software was used for the assessment of factor analysis and for clinical and known-groups validity Multitrait Analysis ProgramRevised software [17] was used for the assessment of other psychometric ... items), Ease of Insulin Use (9 items), Treatment Satisfaction (9 items), and Acceptance of Insulin Administration (6 items) The labeling of these scales was based on the consensus ofthe research ... WECARE scores andthe four CHQ-PF50 scales that assessed the impact ofthe child 's health on the parents and family, Divergent validity was assessed by correlating the WECARE scores with the physical...
... ageing process has been a topic of increased interest, there is a remarkable lack of well-designed and tested instruments to assess it The few developed so far are either not specific to cover older ... This approach allows the investigator to verify what response categories present disorders and, thus, what specific categories should be collapsed to improve thescale Factors I and II demanded ... residuals The first PCA factor was divided into two subsets (defining the most positive and negative loadings on the first residual component) These two subsets were then separately fitted into Rasch...