The Readiness Estimate and Deployability Index Revised for Air Force Nurses (READI-R-AFN) was derived from modifications of Reineck's Readiness Instrument. Reliability and validity of the READI-R-AFN was estimated on completed questionnaires of 181 active duty Air Force nurses. The READI-R-AFN was evaluated based on item analysis, internal consistency (alpha coefficient, >0.70), confirmatory fa...

Replica consistency maintenance plays a key role to improve the efficiency of replica management. This paper proposed one P2P Replica-tree based consistency maintenance strategy. In this strategy, social capacity is adopted for description of replica clustering coefficient, and one replica-tree is formed by dividing replica nodes into multi-levels. Especially peer-to-peer network with first-cla...

Cost and speed considerations often conduct to measure/classify items according to two comprehensive and exclusive classes/categories (binary scale). Assume items are submitted for sorting according to binary scale (e.g. Type 1 and Type 2) using some sorting machine (SM). Repeatability or consistency testing of the SM is examined by the help of the correlation coefficient between the random var...

The study's aim was to construct and validate a diabetes mellitus knowledge questionnaire in Bahasa Malaysia for Orang Asli (OA-DKQ). The questionnaire was administered to; case (Orang Asli) and control (administrative staff) groups at baseline and retested two weeks later. The Cronbach's Alpha was used to determine internal consistency and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to d...

the study aimed at presenting an appropriate framework for designing & implementing knowledge management projects within research & knowledge-based organizations while focusing on the knowledge culture. first, the available literature was reviewed & the influential indices & factors regarding the knowledge culture were extracted. then, a conceptual model for evaluating the knowledge culture was...

PURPOSE The functional vision assessment (AVIF-2 to 6 years) for low vision children with ages from 2 to 6 years old was analyzed. The inter-rater, test-retest and the internal consistency were verified for reliability. METHODS The test, composed by seven domains (visual fixation, visual following, visual field confrontation, eye-hand coordination and surrounding locomotion, contrast vision a...

INTRODUCTION The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment Form (ASES), often used in research in Brazil, although translated and adapted to the Portuguese language, had not had its validity and reliability tested yet. OBJECTIVE To assess the validity, reliability, and internal consistency of the ASES-PT for shoulder dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty indiv...

OBJECTIVE To determine distribution of COPD assessment categories and physicians' adherence to Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2013 strategy in Turkish COPD patients. METHODS A total of 1,610 COPD patients (mean [standard deviation] age: 62.6 [9.9] years, 85.7% were males) were included in this multicenter, non-interventional, cross-sectional study. Patients were...

Purpose To analyze the internal consistency and the construct validity of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) State-Anxiety (S-Anxiety) scale for pregnant women during labor. Method A study of measurement property including 150 pregnant women aged between 15 and 45 years old, during the first period of labor and with term pregnancies. The questionnaire used was the STAI S-Anxiety scale. In...