Prudential Gnome, Right Judgments and Diagnostic Tests

The GNOME desktop environment

We present an overview of the free GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME). GNOME is a suite of X11 GUI applications that provides joy to users and hackers alike. It has been designed for extensibility and automation by using CORBA and scripting languages throughout the code. GNOME is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL and has been developed on the Internet by a loose...

Adolescent Judgments of the Personal, Prudential, and Normative Aspects of Drug Usage

Group-administered questionnaires were used to examine the social judgments of 139 9thand 12th-grade students regarding drug usage. Subjects were divided into groups on the basis of self-reported drug use. Low-drug-use and high-drug-use subjects of both grades tended to view drug use as a matter of personal discretion or prudence rather than an issue of morality or social convention. High-drug-...

Assessing the Validity of Diagnostic Tests

GNOME Localization and Usability

Free Software has certain characteristics that create usability problems. Translations are usually not considered as possible causes of those problems. Several areas in the GNOME desktop environment are shown to suffer from decreased usability caused by translations. A number of measures are proposed to improve the situation.

STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS Diagnosing Tests: Using and Misusing Diagnostic and Screening Tests STREINER DIAGNOSTIC TESTS

Tests can be used either diagnostically (i.e., to confirm or rule out the presence of a condition in people suspected of having it) or as a screening instrument (determining who in a large group of people has the condition and often when those people are unaware of it or unwilling to admit to it). Tests that may be useful and accurate for diagnosis may actually do more harm than good when used ...