... sheet at the point of care; we also included a validated, 10-item Page of 12 System Usability Scale [35] to assess the subjective usabilityof the tool Usability study 2: evaluationof the RAQ The ... at the point of care Methods To determine if the osteoporosis prototype meets the usability needs of all end users, a usability study was planned for each component of the tool: usability study ... (e.g., the use of the tool at the point of care) Of the three components of the osteoporosis tool that were tested, the RAQ required the most cycles of iteration to meet the needs of patients at...
... the third of these: processes underlying change or lack of change to assess possible reasons for the success or lack of success of the intervention The evaluation was based on the Theory of Planned ... This type of process evaluation can lead to the identification of general principles that will help to optimise interventions The study reported here was a theory -based process evaluationof a pragmatic ... of control over the behaviour in question The construction of the measures of the three predictor variables and of intention was based on standard practice in the field including the advice of...
... Discovery of inference rules for question answering Natural Language Engineering, 7(4):343–360 Dekang Lin 1998 Dependency -based evaluationof minipar In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluationof ... non-trivial) protocol of a sequence of questions, which determines rule validity in a given sentence We shall next describe how we collect a sample of examples for evaluation and the evaluation process ... different algorithms Instance -based Evaluation Methodology As discussed in Section 2.1, an evaluation methodology for entailment rules should reflect the expected validity of their application within...
... by the total number of “accepted” phrases The precision is a measure of the correctness of the system in terms of the evaluationof the phrases For this experiment the recall of the system was ... conversation The results of the human evaluation are shown in Table In this evaluation, 26 out of the 80 phrases “accepted” by the system were considered “completely natural”, and 18 out of the 80 “accepted” ... (2005),the size of indexable Web had become approximately 11.5 billion pages The tuning of the thresholds of each n-gram type was preformed using the phrases of the Phrase DB 10 The evaluation “weakly...
... Automating Concordance Line Selection In Proceedings of NeMLaP, pages 95-100 H P Ednmndson 1969 New Methods in Automatic Extracting Journal of the ACM, 16(2):264-285 T Givon 1979 From Discourse ... Linguistics, 23(1):33-64 M Hoey 1991 Patterns of Lexis in Text Describing English Language Oxford University Press I 80 (%) ~ 100 ~ K Zechner 1996 Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text ... 1958 The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts IBM Journal for Research and Development, 2(2):159-165 ~ ~ { ~ K Ono, K Sumita, and S Miike 1994 Abstract Generation based on Rhetorical Structure...
... investigation of Webbased learning activities within the tutorial component of the subject, the design of the study focuses on developing six weeks (three in each half of the semester) of online ... formative evaluationof the site was conducted 470 Delivering Health Education via the Web: Design and Formative Evaluation FORMATIVE EVALUATION METHODOLOGY The formative evaluationof the prototype ... technology postgraduate students of the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong; and testing by undergraduate teacher trainees of the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong The health...
... taskbased evaluations of NLG systems over the Internet 304 is a valid alternative to more traditional laboratorybased evaluations Specifically, we have shown that an Internet -based evaluationof ... a lab -based evaluation While the Internetbased evaluation suffers from certain skews caused by the lack of control over the subject pool, it does find more differences than the lab -based evaluation ... that an evaluation that is based almost exclusively on native speakers in universities leads to overly benign judgments about the quality of NLG systems One advantage of the Internet -based approach...
... accurate economic evaluations of PH treatments Methods Item selection As the ultimate purpose of the study was to calculate QALYs, it was decided to construct the preferencebased measure from ... The estimation of a preferencebased measure of health from the SF-36 J Health Econ 2002, 21(2):271-92 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of charge "BioMed ... be used directly to undertake economic evaluations of treatments First it is necessary to convert it http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/65 into a preferencebased measure The approach used in this...
... course Figure of the mean ρ group on Day1 and Day3 max changes of TS-down and TS-up the course of the mean ρmax changes of TS-down and TS-up group on Day1 and Day3 *p < 0.05 Page of (page number ... ρmax of Subject-2 at this part of the video agrees with results of previous studies, that it takes about to 10 minutes for the subject to feel the symptoms of VIMS [10,11] Moreover, the ρmax of ... intensity of VIMS increased as the number of the exposures increased (TS-up group) 3) ρmax of the subjects feeling VIMS decreased at the same point of time on both days 4) After repetitions of watching...
... mobile PC Ultra mobile PC Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2008, 3:35 http://www.occup-med.com/content/3/1/35 Table 1: Extract of ... processes and guarantees legibility and comparability of the noted expiries Starting time 11 Figure Evaluationof inter-observer reliability Evaluationof inter-observer reliability – first observer; ... problem of these conventional methods [5] Remembering working events or examples of behaviour during subjective interviews can present problems of bias [6] Equally, the exclusive use of questioning...
... functions of the EQ-5D and SF-6D best reflect the preferences of Canadian cancer patients, especially considering the fact that members of the general public not often include aspects of adaptation ... Deriving a preference- based single index from the UK SF-36 Health Survey J Clin Epidemiol 1998, 51:1115-1128 22 Brazier JE, Roberts J: The estimation of a preference- based measure of health from ... from the preferencebased instruments A Bonferroni correction was applied to counteract the problem of multiple comparisons [25] The external validity of each instrument was assessed based on...
... in terms of energy consumption The rest of the article is organized as follows: Section introduces the related works Section describes details of the protocol design with the evaluationof its ... are examples of typical contention -based MAC protocols They offer the advantages of simplicity, small overhead, small latency, etc TRAMA [11] and LMAC [12] are typical schedule -based MAC protocols ... communications through the human body, a series of scenarios of different capsules are set up based on a topology of straight line within the range of 30 cm in Figure The capsules are uniformly...
... statistical behavior of the BS grant buffer of a particular SS is independent from the behavior of those of the other SSs Therefore, we model the stochastic behavior of the BS grant buffer of a particular ... is the sum of the fixed time from the grant time of the tagged i-packet to the start of transmission of the i-packets in the next frame and the transmission times of the random number of ipackets ... grant buffer of SS i according to their order in the request Let the number of the BS grants in the buffer of SS i be Si = 0, 1, During the service of the individual BS grant buffer of SS i at...
... precipitation of the oxide The rate of reaction was controlled by allowing one drop of ammonia per second to react with this solution until a pH of 10, to get a thick dark precipitate Five grams of citric ... recommended because of its higher magnetization values, lesser toxicity [19] and the ease of metabolism by the liver In the present study, we report the synthesis of highly stable water -based iron oxide ... a 1-cm cuvette at the photon energy of diode laser (670 nm) The simulation of the power loss spectrum of the sample was performed for applied field strength of 500Oe in the range 100–900 kHz Results...
... the field experiments x of MRs in the mobile network, the number y of HAs serving the mobile network and the number z of MNPs (Mobile Network Prefixes) advertised in the mobile network In this ... demonstration of the viability of IEEE 802.11b based inter-vehicle communications,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks ... communicate with mobile or static remote nodes The application of NEMO in ITS is direct and it is done as follows A Mobile Router (MR) located in the vehicle acts as a gateway for the in-vehicle Mobile...
... performance of the method under varying noise conditions while the noiseless image allows for evaluationof the geometric bias implicit in the method (1) Simulation of a Noiseless Image and Analysis of ... to be 0.02 Based on the average normalised gel intensity of 0.39 this corresponds to an SNR of 19.5 However, to evaluate the performance of the marker tracking method in the presence of noise, ... geometric bias in the marker tracking method, and (2) evaluationof the performance on the marker tracking method in the presence of noise (1) Evaluationof the Geometric Bias in the Marker Tracking Method...
... the expected power of the data-dependent pilot sequence In Figure 3, we have shown the true distribution of the real part of the cyclic mean component of QPSK constellation based on the multinomial ... based on the input and the output of the limiter function and an improved estimate of the average power, σsi At this point, when i > 0, we obtain our first estimate of the limiter error ˆ ˘ Based ... bit estimation with DDST based channel estimation Figure Example of the true distribution of the cyclic mean component based on the multinomial distribution for real part of the QPSK constellation...
... constant, kwi is the number of penetrated walls of type i, li is the attenuation due to the wall of type i, i = 1, 2, , I, Nd and N f d are the numbers of normal and fireproof doors encountered by ... effectiveness of the active network for localization, in the following we evaluate the limiting performance of a localization technique based on the RF map of the area Performance is expressed in terms of ... accuracy of the power measurement in the terminal, the accuracy of the RF map, and on the topology of the area In order to evaluate the limiting performance of the localization algorithms based...
... them provide good practices of postnatal care While the need of postnatal care among mothers increases, many forms of postnatal care have been presented of which home -based postnatal care should ... Status of postnatal care at community 3.1.1.1 Mothers' profile In a total of 762 mothers participated in the study, 49% come from rural area, 51% come from urban area Most of them are at the age of ... “Being pregnant as at gate of cemetory”…I don’t have any to think of instead of taking rest for my self and taking care of my baby …” (GD07BV) 3.1.2.2 General knowledge of postnatal care 36,2%...