OBJECTIVES Evaluations in the clinical arena are fraught with problems. Current assessments of clinical teaching typically measure attributes of clinical teachers in overly broad terms, are often subjective and often succumb to the halo effect. This is in contradistinction to measurements of lectures, workshops or online educational content, which can more readily be assessed using objective cr...

Clustering validation is a crucial part of choosing a clustering algorithm which performs best for an input data. Internal clustering validation is efficient and realistic, whereas external validation requires a ground truth which is not provided in most applications. In this paper, we analyze the properties and performances of eleven internal clustering measures. In particular, as the importan...

The relevant research is questioning the essence of the existence of an adequate internal circulation to human dimensions. The research was based on the method of anthropometric assessment of internal circulation de Barros (2009), which was applied in three different sizes of apartments in the city of Caruaru-PE. These apartments were evaluated through the floor plans and furniture layouts, sug...

Model evaluation is an important issue in population analyses. We aimed to perform a systematic review of all population pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic analyses published between 2002 and 2004 to survey the current methods used to evaluate models and to assess whether those models were adequately evaluated. We selected 324 articles in MEDLINE using defined key words and built a data abs...

introduction. evaluation is a systematic way to improve and make more effective actions that involves procedures which are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. common questions in all evaluations are: do all part of program do well and effective? what is the good functioning? why the program or its parts do not work well? what are the effects and consequences of the program? is this program...