measuring the usability of icons

... for example, evaluated the causes of the Great Depression and found that the collapse of the financial system - more specifically, the failure of roughly half the banks in the US between 1930 and ... affect the capacity to absorb losses, which may affect the market’s perception of the riskiness of the bank, we include the ratio of tier over total capital as a proxy for the quality of capital ... Panel B of Table shows our simulation of the impact of a counter cyclical capital requirement At the time of writing, the details of how exactly such a counter-cyclical 33 The immediate impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... e.g the MediaWiki software5 , integrated within a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) software bundle The architecture of the API consists of the following modules: RDBMS: at the lowest level, the ... encyclopedia page objects and compute the relatedness scores The information flow of the API is summarized by the sequence diagram in Figure The higher input/output layer the user interacts with is provided ... articles in the categorization graph Examples of programmatic usage of the API are presented in Figure In addition, the software distribution includes UNIX shell scripts to access the API interactively...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... referenced within the field of web analytics, the studying of user behavior on the Internet The focus of statistical investigation for web analytics has matured from the basic counting of website visitors ... in the interest of reducing the required survey completion time, as well as not to overwhelm the participant’s cognitive capacity 3.3.1 Aesthetic Ranking – The aesthetic ranking section of the ... Figure 2) based on their perceived, relative level of aesthetic quality The extremes of this scale were labeled ‘ugly’ and ‘beautiful’, similar to the ends of the slider bar in the individual ranking...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... separate the effects of the attack from the effects of the business cycle (although we not attempt to isolate the effects of the fall 2001 anthrax scares from the effects of the attack) Unless otherwise ... hours On the other hand, estimates of the labor loss may be overstated, because of the double counting of the earnings losses of some of the deceased workers and the assumption that the deceased ... unlikely that the pre-attack design will be duplicated.17 The remaining $4.5 billion is the estimated cost of repairing the damaged buildings The cost of replacing the contents of the destroyed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... widespread The emergence of the internet has not replaced the use of other media, particularly TV Rather than competing, these two media complement each other The internet acts as an extension to the ... effectively measuring online advertising The challenge of measuring the effectiveness of cross media Several ways of measuring the impact of media mix Advertising budget share-shift Although the majority ... the quality of the method used to gauge the Web audience, attributable to the large number of publishers (for example, compared with the number of TV channels) Nevertheless, some of the advertisers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2014, 13:20

... of the significant impact of children's distress on their mother's HRQOL suggests the need for the inclusion of a new domain in the measurement of HRQOL in this context, and potentially in others ... #200-2005-M-12079 The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily represent the views of the funding agency Preliminary results of this research were presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the ... effect of abuse on the women's health and quality of life, women reported that their own quality of life suffered from their knowledge of the negative effect that witnessing abuse had on their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... For the development of the PIPP, selection of the domains was guided in part by the ICF, but also by a review of existing measures and a series of qualitative interviews One of the concerns of ... Thailand Methods The study was conducted in urban, rural and remote areas of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, ... supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... of the significant impact of children's distress on their mother's HRQOL suggests the need for the inclusion of a new domain in the measurement of HRQOL in this context, and potentially in others ... #200-2005-M-12079 The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily represent the views of the funding agency Preliminary results of this research were presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the ... effect of abuse on the women's health and quality of life, women reported that their own quality of life suffered from their knowledge of the negative effect that witnessing abuse had on their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... For the development of the PIPP, selection of the domains was guided in part by the ICF, but also by a review of existing measures and a series of qualitative interviews One of the concerns of ... Thailand Methods The study was conducted in urban, rural and remote areas of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, ... supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... that of a natural face r The value of Cv , however, provides a readily interpretable metric indexing the quality of the animated talker The value r of Cv is the visual contribution of the synthetic ... for the synthetic and natural face The segment /r/, on the other hand, is actually more intelligible with the synthetic than with the natural face The parameter values also inform the outcomes of ... conditions of degradation For example, a value of 80% means the synthetic face reached 80% of the visual performance of the natural face The quality of the animated speech approaches real visible...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... increased ability of the community to profitably satisfy customers THE CHOREOGRAPHER Let’s take a closer look at the role of the choreographer, whom you can think of as the entrepreneur of the Collaborative ... Era of Collaborative Business with their customers and other businesses in the design, development, and delivery of the market basket of goods and services if they expect to profitably satisfy their ... terrorism; the choreographer is the entity that sees the vision for the com- ❘ The Collaboration Imperative munity and works to bring order and direction to the movements of the members in pursuit of their...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20

... increased ability of the community to profitably satisfy customers THE CHOREOGRAPHER Let’s take a closer look at the role of the choreographer, whom you can think of as the entrepreneur of the Collaborative ... Era of Collaborative Business with their customers and other businesses in the design, development, and delivery of the market basket of goods and services if they expect to profitably satisfy their ... terrorism; the choreographer is the entity that sees the vision for the com- ❘ The Collaboration Imperative munity and works to bring order and direction to the movements of the members in pursuit of their...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 22:20

... throughout the year The date of sampling becomes important then when comparing readings • Sampling location Make a note of where the sample was taken from Further samples may then be taken from the ... life of about two years • If the meter has no temperature compensation take the temperature of the sample and use a correction table to get the right value • Read the display, and record the result ... driver or the calibration tool provided, turn the screw until the display reads the same as the known salinity of the calibration solution • Discard calibration solution DO NOT pour the remaining...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 13:22

... The vertical part of the cylinder was referred to as the wall and the horizontal part as the floor Cylinders were outlined by sticks marked at the level of the floor and placed at the level of ... and the frequency of living roots was the same for and red oak in almost all parts of the to this was on the floor of cylinder (the horizontal surface 60 cm below the soil surface), where the ... quantify the disease in the roots Therefore, we wanted to know if we could predict the infection status of the entire root system using a quick rating of the collar roots For that, we examined the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... for example the peripheral contour of the phantom, were less steep in the CBCT data set than in the planning CT (figure 2) For the profile of the CBCT, less high frequency variation of the CT values ... found for the 1F techniques than for the 4F techniques because of the location of the VOIs within areas of the inhomogeneous dose distribution for the 1F technique For the IMRT technique, the dose ... the pelvis, thorax and head patient group The density values of the planning CT were taken as reference for calibration of the CBCT curves The mean regression curve of the CBCT data defined the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... bottom, with the time of day indicated on the X and the height of the spike indicating the raw activity level on the Y axis The plot (b) shows the activity averaged at each minute over the days (black ... model to test the main effects of two covariates and the effect of the interaction of the two covariates We extended this method to the functional linear model The comparisons of all groups in ... assumptions while the disadvantage is that we cannot test for the significance of an individual covariate among many The p value of the test can then be calculated by counting the proportion of permutation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... cycle of audits of its standards of nursing care These audits showed that certain elements of care were not improving The TOPIC7 project was therefore proposed to improve the experience of older ... measurements that will be of value in future studies of context in acute care and in particular has raised the question of whether the ward needs to be the unit of analysis rather than individuals ... to the CAI Judy Lumby helped to plan the evaluation and contributed to the comparison of the two tools Tammy Page assisted with the implementation of Topic and helped with the evaluation The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Era of Collaborative Business with their customers and other businesses in the design, development, and delivery of the market basket of goods and services if they expect to profitably satisfy their ... terrorism; the choreographer is the entity that sees the vision for the com- ❘ The Collaboration Imperative munity and works to bring order and direction to the movements of the members in pursuit of their ... merchants Then we automate the buying process by allowing the buyer to access lots of other recommendations and opinions from other members of the community so as to further refine buying decisions The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... responsibility for the cost of the competency it 46 Part One ❘ The Era of Collaborative Business brings into the community, thereby lowering the cost of that competency for the rest of the community ... role of the choreographer, whom you can think of as the entrepreneur of the Collaborative 26 Part One ❘ The Era of Collaborative Business Community The choreographer is the entity that builds the ... business in the era of collaborative business? We now have part of the answer: ❚ Everyone has to have the mindset of an entrepreneur and the skillset of a choreographer In the era of collaborative...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20