... distally along the shoe), medial (greater medial than lateral wear at the heel and forefoot), which may indicate excessive pronation, or lateral (greater lateral than medial wear at the heel and forefoot), ... reliability for all categorical items, use of these items from thetool to assist clinical footwear assessment can be recommended fora range of populations Qualitative evaluation ofthetool and ... range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) statistics...
... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessmentof temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... This instantiation ofthe flicker assessment framework is depicted in Figure In Figure 9, K, Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is ... dirty-window-effect Forthe perceptual evaluation of each artifact, a particular instantiation ofthe generalized framework, was presented and the associated results were EURASIP Journal on Image and Video...
... precipitates The spectrum ofthe material reveals peaks for Ca and Sb The strong decrease ofthe Ca2+ pool in the pistil at the last stages of pistil development coincides with the degradation ofthe ... maximal values just after anther dehiscence (stage 4) At the latest analyzed stage (stage 5) a significant decrease of Ca2+ levels was observed in the upper parts ofthe pistil (stigma and style) ... exudates (arrowheads) (E) In the stigma ofa flower without petals and anthers (stage 5), Ca/Sb deposits are less abundant and present mainly on the surface of degenerating papillae cells and...
... searching and querying capa- interactions SO also greatly facilitates the automatic validation of annotation data, as the relationships implied by an annotation can be compared to the allowable ... separable England is a part _of Britain feature_part _of activity Functional/heteromerous/not separable Inhaling is a part _of breathing Translation is part _of protein synthesis A sheep is a part _of ... CG14478-RA CG14478-RB 3′ CG14478-RA CG14478-RB These data afford many potential analyses, but as our motivation was primarily to demonstrate the practical utility of SO as atoolfor data management,...
... verb form werkte (worked) (Records for citation forms contain pointers to the different forms belonging to their paradigm, and information relevant to all forms ofa paradigm: e.g case frames and ... is ~ d ~ to the system, and we want to add all inflected forms (the paradigm ofthe verb) to the dictionary with their pronunciation As a first hypothesis, the system assumes that the inflection ... consists ofthe nucleus and coda ofthe last stressed syllable and the following weak syllables if any For example, the rhyme determining part of w~rrelea (to whirl) is er-ve-len, of versn6llea (to accelerate)...
... process of development and finalisation ofthe questionnaire They gave their approval at each ofthe milestones ofthe development and finalisation process The questionnaire was also reviewed and agreed ... IDEEL as distinct modules and the lack of data from PCA and Multi-trait analyses on the questionnaire as a whole could be raised as limitations, as the purpose of these analyses is to allow the ... on daily life and the patients’ satisfaction with their treatment as the central concepts in patients’ experience of dry eye Qualitative analysis indicated that saturation was achieved for these...
... describes the psychometric evaluation ofa patientreported VAS forthe daily assessmentof anxiety when used in a clinical trial assessing pharmaceutical treatments for GAD Methods Preliminary Qualitative ... reliable than asking fora rating at a specific point in time [38] A set of analyses was aimed at providing evidence ofthe reliability, responsiveness, validity, and utility ofthe GAVAS The GA-VAS ... corroborate the responsiveness ofthe GA-VAS Validity correlations between the GA-VAS and other available measures were highly satisfactory Specifically, the GA-VAS obtained relatively high correlations...
... above the significance cutoff, 'array density' ofthe peak, and the P value for that peak The array density value is defined as the average number of arrayed elements used to calculate the window ... window values for all windows that comprise the peak Therefore, the array density value provides an estimate ofthe number of actual raw data measurements that underlie each peak Properties of ChIP-chip ... correction As an alternative to using a Gaussian distribution forthe background, ChIPOTle can estimate the P value fora region using a permutation-based approach (Additional data file 2) Using...
... a rapid cell enumeration assay that is suitable forthe quantification of fibroblast population and suitable fora microplate reader analysis, to enhance the formation of collagen matrix on the ... Shanshan and the attachment students: Shriju Joshi, Amelia Ann Michael, Natasha Lee, Brenda Lim, Rosanna Chau, Srividia Sundararaman, Zhang Lei) and the Skin Cells Research Group members (Anandaroop ... having several disadvantages The first method can be laborious and involves hazardous materials and wastes, whereas the latter is nonspecific to collagen Therefore, an alternative collagen quantification...
... overview ofa patient's asthma control with a quick glance Patients assume active role in their health care Implementation: The Asthma Task Force developed an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and ... 1) In Navajo asthma patients, perceptions of asthma and beliefs about the activity of asthma medications influence when and how often asthma medicines are taken, as well as the use of health services ... within the health centers The Asthma Task Force developed medical record documents to facilitate superior asthma care (including an Asthma Test, Asthma Management Plan, and Asthma Action Plan),...
... Salvador Peru Argentina Estonia Poland Australia Germany Romania Austria Hungary Russian Federation Bahamas India Saudi Arabia Bangladesh Israel Slovakia Brazil Slovenia Bulgaria Lithuania Turkey ... INTOSAI established a Working Group on the Audit of Privatisation The Working Group consists of representatives from the SAIs of 39 countries: Albania Egypt Paraguay Antigua and Barbuda El Salvador ... difficulties The key risks and their management Part 1: Risks facing the State A Clarity about partnership objectives Risk Managing therisk 1) The state is likely to have a range of public service...
... former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art and the disadvantage that any two works of art differ from each other in several different respects, so that the actual factor ... et al., 2006) Another major difference among the three studies is the task that participants were asked to perform Kawabata and Zeki (2004) asked their participants to rate the beauty ofthe ... encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with theassessmentofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information and the regulation of emotional...
... of EAMT, pages 52–57, Saint Rapha¨ l, France e 61 Mary Flanagan 1994 Error classification for MT evaluation In Proceedings of AMTA, pages 65–72, Columbia, Maryland, USA Ariadna Font Llitj´ s and ... level→Long are selected in order to add a new error annotation B LAST ignores identical annotations, and warns the user if they try to add an annotation forthe exact same words as another annotation ... lower-cased matching works for most languages, and stemming for 15 languages The synonym module uses WordNet, and is only available for English The paraphrase module is based on an automatic paraphrase...
... framework, QARLA, that addresses such issues Given a set of manual summaries and another set of baseline summaries per task, together with a set of similarity metrics, QARLA provides quantitative measures ... estimates the quality of an automatic summary a ∈ A, given a set of models M and a similarity metric x An obvious first attempt would be to compute the average similarity ofa to all model summaries ... compare the rankings produced by QARLA with the output of human assessments, even if the philosophy of QARLA is not considering human assessments as the gold standard for evaluation Our initial...
... misleading information and result in mistaken action (1998: 184- 5) Quantitative risk Assessments (QRA) have been the subject ofa deal of academic criticism For instance, the mathematical basis of ... in a variety of ways For example, the causes ofarisk may not be clear and even where they are clear the decision about what is an acceptable risk needs to be taken and that is essentially a ... employs a number of risk- based tools The 1988 approach involved risk assessments about such matters as plant reliability and riskof plant failures; quality ofthe plant and its operational procedures;...
... often the case that a grammar assigns just one ofa range of logically equivalent representations to a sentence; designers of grammars for use in analysis generally take care to ensure that the ... translation application Similarly, the transfer rules of Zajac (1990) express a relation between subparts ofa single complex structure Such an approach does not appear suitable forthe appl/cation ... An alternative is to define equivalence classes of representations, and reduce all members ofa class to the single canonical form which the grammar can map into a senfence Exactly how the classes...
... manuscript AB, MGZ, MSM, RED, MAM ensured the accuracy ofthe data and analysis All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Summary of patients treated ... to assess the clinical outcome Patients were also evaluated using the Harris hip score rating system [22] Statistical Analysis Data was subjected to averaging and analysis using Sigma Stat software ... holding the joint at the end of their range for 30 seconds, followed by manual application of 15 to 20 oscillations at the end range of motion All ofthe manual therapy was performed with opposite...