The European crash test program, Euro NCAP, has since it’s launch presented results of some 80 individual car models. The improvements in the general level of protection have been substantial. While the intention of the test program is to stimulate the use of best practice, and not to predict real life outcome, it is nevertheless important to validate the positive development, and to pinpoint p...

A displeasing dental appearance may have a significant emotional impact on an individual's well being. Although malocclusions occur more often in physically and/or mentally handicapped children than in normal children, the most severely handicapped patients are those least likely to receive orthodontic treatment. This investigation studied the modes of behaviour management used in the orthodont...

A statistical model is proposed for the analysis of peer-review ratings of R01 grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health. Innovations of this model include parameters that reflect differences in reviewer scoring patterns, a mechanism to account for the transfer of information from an application's preliminary ratings and group discussion to final ratings provided by all ...

A new psychiatric report and rating scale assessing severity and frequency of aggressive behaviour is presented and evaluated. It is based on the staff's standardized reports of aggressive incidents. By using a special aggression report form, comprehensive and standardized information is obtained, thereby permitting scoring and further analysis of different aspects of aggressive incidents. The ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether exposing junior doctors to Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) improves their telephone referrals. SBAR is a standardised minimum information communication tool. METHODS A randomised controlled trial with participants and rating clinicians both blinded to group allocation. Hospital interns from a 2-year period (2006-2007) participated in two...

This paper sought to replicate McDaniel, Psotka, Legree, Yost, and Weekley (2011). That research showed that situational judgment test scoring methods that control for elevation and scatter yield larger validities than those that do not. McDaniel et al. also showed that dropping mid-range items (items with mean scores near the midpoint of a Likert scale) resulted in higher validity. The current...

To date, traditional NLP parsers have not been widely successful in TESOLoriented applications, particularly in scoring written compositions. Re-engineering such applications to provide the necessary robustness for handling ungrammatical English has proven a formidable obstacle. We discuss the use of a nontraditional parser for rating compositions that attenuates some of these difficulties. Its...

This keynote paper highlights the concept and objectives of green buildings. The fundamental features and characters of green buildings are presented. This paper focuses on the two primary issues; (i) the environmental protection and energy conservation and, (ii) the healthy indoor environment providing residential users with a comfortable and safe living. The paper also highlights history of g...

Comparisons of two assessment measures for ADHD: the ADHD Behavior Checklist and the Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test (IVA CPT) were examined using undergraduates (n=44) randomly assigned to a control or a simulated malingerer condition and undergraduates with a valid diagnosis of ADHD (n=16). It was predicted that malingerers would successfully fake ADHD on the rating...

Practical oral examinations are important and are frequently a difficult part of medical school and board examinations. They represent an accurate and direct mean of assessing the student’s interaction with patients and their clinical and technical skills. This paper reviews an outline for the administration of oral examinations. The review is based on the medical literature, detailed discussio...