Approval Reports

JFMS Open Reports gains seal of approval from PubMed Central

The effect of social desirability and social approval on self-reports of physical activity.

The purpose of this investigation was to examine social desirability and social approval as sources of error in three self-reported physical activity assessments using objective measures of physical activity as reference measures. In 1997, women (n = 81) living in Worcester, Massachusetts, completed doubly labeled water measurements and wore an activity monitor for 14 days. They also completed ...

Is Approval Voting Optimal Given Approval Votes?

Some crowdsourcing platforms ask workers to express their opinions by approving a set of k good alternatives. It seems that the only reasonable way to aggregate these k-approval votes is the approval voting rule, which simply counts the number of times each alternative was approved. We challenge this assertion by proposing a probabilistic framework of noisy voting, and asking whether approval v...

Informed consent and approval by institutional review boards in published reports on clinical trials.

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Approval Sheet

Title of Dissertation: Efficient Local Algorithms for Distributed Data Mining in Large Scale Peer to Peer Environments: A Deterministic Approach Kanishka Bhaduri, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Thesis directed by: Dr. Hillol Kargupta Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems such as Gnutella, Napster, e-Mule, Kazaa, and Freenet are incr...