BACKGROUND This paper compiles data from different sources to get a first comprehensive picture of psychometric and other methodological characteristics of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale. The scale was designed and standardized as a self-administered scale to (a) to assess symptoms/complaints of aging women under different conditions, (b) to evaluate the severity of symptoms over time, ...

Eight guidelines are suggested to aid the analyst in investigating whether rating scales categories are cooperating to produce observations on which valid measurement can be based. These guidelines are presented within the context of Rasch analysis. They address features of rating-scale-based data such as category frequency, ordering, rating-to-measure inferential coherence, and the quality of ...

This study demonstrates that incorrect data are entered into a pairwise comparisons matrix for processing into weights for the data collected by a rating scale. Unprocessed rating scale data lead to a paradox. A solution to it, based on normalization, is proposed. This is an essential correction for virtually all pairwise comparisons methods using rating scales. The illustration of the relative...

For the last 10 years, data have been accumulating indicating that, contrary to former evidence, lithium may play a useful role in the treatment of certain schizophrenic patients. Delva & Letemendia (1982), after reviewing major controlled and uncontrolled studies in this area, concluded that “¿ between one third and one-half of patients with schizophrenia will benefit from lithium―. In two...

A new percentile-based rating scale P100 has recently been proposed to describe the citation impact in terms of the distribution of the unique citation values. Here I investigate P100 for 5 example datasets, two simple fictitious models and three larger empirical samples. Counterintuitive behavior is demonstrated in the model datasets, pointing to difficulties when the evolution with time of th...

In January 2014, the new ITU-T P.913 recommendation for measuring subjective video, audio and multimedia quality in any environment has been published. This document does not contain any time-continuous subjective method. However, environmental parameter values are changing continuously in a majority of outdoor and also most indoor environments. To be aware of their impact on the perceived qual...

The aim of this study was to determine ICT literacy levels using a situated approach, targeting the functional understanding of technical terms contained in digital everyday culture texts. A cohort of 70 first year undergraduate Education students participated in the study. The assessment task included writing definitions for 47 technical terms which were derived from a series of digital texts,...

Various forms of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, can influence how we speak. Therefore, clinicians assess speech and language behaviors of their patients. While it is difficult for humans to quantify speech behaviors precisely, acoustic descriptors, such as tenseness of voice and speech rate, can be quantified automatically. In this work, we identify previously unstudied acoustic ...