The fast development and increasing use of 3D video technology increases the need for standardization and certification processes when it comes to quality of video experience. Due to the specific conditions necessary for high-quality 3D video reproduction, an important role in evaluating the quality of 3D video plays the human experience factor. In order to find the best mechanisms for 3D video...

We develop a microscopic analysis of superconducting and dissipative currents in junctions between superconductors with d-wave symmetry of the order parameter. We study the proximity effect in such superconductors and show that for certain crystal orientations the superconducting order parameter can be essentially suppressed in the vicinity of a nontransparent specularly reflecting boundary. Th...

This paper aims to present a theoretical survey of the capability approach in an interdisciplinary and accessible way. It focuses on the main conceptual and theoretical aspects of the capability approach, as developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others. The capability approach is a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment of individual well-being and social arrangeme...

Persons with subjective cognitive decline are reported to experience a decline in cognitive capacity without measurable cognitive deficits on objective testing.1 In a meta-analysis, subjective cognitive decline was present in about 17% of healthy elderly.2 The pathophysiological process of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is thought to begin many years before the diagnosis of AD dementia.3 Subjective c...

Genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer can help target prevention programs, and possibly reduce morbidity and mortality. A positive result of BRCA1/2 is a substantial risk factor for breast and ovarian cancer, and its detection often leads to risk reduction interventions such as increased screening, prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy. We examined predictors of the decision to under...

In most cases, fabrics such as curtains, skirts, suit pants and so on are draped under their own gravity parallel to fabric plane while the gravity is perpendicular to fabric plane in traditional drape testing method. As a result, it does not conform to actual situation and the test data is not convincing enough. To overcome this problem, this paper presents a novel method which simulates the r...

Designing objective and subjective methods of studying the abilities of disabled people is one of the most important things to be done before employing them. That is why, new assessment methods are proposed. Evaluation as a testing procedure used for defining the abilities of disabled people general capacity, range, and strength of the main groups of muscles and extremities, psychological tests...

We discuss a consistent model of pairwise comparison-based non-numerical ranking. An algorithm that enforces consistency for raw or partially organized ranking data is presented and its properties are analysed. The concept of testing subjective rankings is also discussed.

In ETSI standard ES 202 739 and ES 202 740 a new testing technique for the measurement of wideband terminals is introduced. Tolerance masks are given for sending and receiving frequency response characteristics. As an important new concept in this standard no longer the ear reference point (ERP) but the free field reference point is used for determining the response characteristics in receiving...