The reliability and validity of standard and qualitative scores for the Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT; Ruff, 1988) was examined in 102 healthy undergraduates. Participants (M age = 21.79; SD = 3.7; age = 80% Caucasian) were administered the RFFT and measures assessing executive functions (EF) and other cognitive domains. Inter-scorer reliability was excellent (0.9 range) for most RFFT indices...

BACKGROUND Scientists and practitioners alike need reliable, valid measures of contextual factors that influence implementation. Yet, few existing measures demonstrate reliability or validity. To meet this need, we developed and assessed the psychometric properties of measures of several constructs within the Inner Setting domain of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)....

It should be noted that the requirement of f to be convex in the definition of f -divergence is essential. In Euclidean spaces any convex function can be represented as the pointwise supremum of a family of affine functions and vice versa, every supremum of a family of affine functions produces a convex function. Take f(x) = 12 |x− 1| as an example. We see that it can be written as a pointwise ...

Research Perfoxnned by Robert Davison Under The Supervision of Pr, *<« J« HoHlchols —»■—«— II I II ■ IIH I III« I I! Ill« This paper develops a method to allocate reliability to system elements where a system reliability requirement must be met or a total cost constraint is imposed« Parallel and serially arranged elements are considered with each element's probability density function of time t...

The authors developed the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview (SITBI) and evaluated its psychometric properties. The SITBI is a structured interview that assesses the presence, frequency, and characteristics of a wide range of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, including suicidal ideation, suicide plans, suicide gestures, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Thi...

In this paper, we have considered a series-parallel system to find out optimum system reliability with an additional entropy objective function. Maximum system reliability of series-parallel system is depending on proper allocation of redundancy component in different stage. The goal of entropy based reliability redundancy allocation problem is to find optimal number of redundancy component in ...

In this paper we consider the problem of the evaluation of system reliability, in which the lifetimes of components are described using a fuzzy exponential distribution. Formula of a fuzzy reliability function and its α-cut set are presented. The fuzzy reliability of structures is defined on the basis of fuzzy number. Furthermore, the fuzzy reliability functions of k -out-ofm system, series sys...

Optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) has been used to measure changes in chest wall volume and its compartments. However, literature lacks research on its reliability. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of OEP. Thirty-two healthy subjects were evaluated at rest and during submaximal exercise on a cycle ergometer. The following variables were as...

with the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...