Purpose: The aim of this review is to (1) retrieve all data validating the Session-rating of perceived exertion (RPE)-method using various criteria, (2) highlight the rationale of this method and its ecological usefulness, and (3) describe factors that can alter RPE and users of this method should take into consideration. Method: Search engines such as SPORTDiscus, PubMed, and Google Scholar da...

For proper management of life cycle of machines and manufacturing facilities, it is important to perform appropriate maintenance operations, and to keep machine status for better reuse and recycling opportunity. For this purpose, a virtual maintenance system is very effective, where facility life cycle model is constructed in computer, and reliability and availability of machines are predicted ...

A lot of importance has been attached to the testing phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It is during this phase it is checked whether the software product meets user requirements or not. Any discrepancies that are identified are removed. But testing needs to be monitored to increase its effectiveness. Software Reliability Growth Models (SRGMs) that specify mathematical relatio...

A novel approach to the diagnosis of hypercubes, called Self-Validating Diagnosis, is introduced. An algorithm based on this approach, called SVD algorithm, is presented and evaluated. Given any fault set and the resulting syndrome, the algorithm returns a diagnosis and a syndrome-dependent bound, Tσ, with the property that diagnosis is correct (although possibly incomplete) if the actual numbe...

Finding reliable train connections is a considerable issue in timetable information since train delays perturb the timetable daily. We present an effective probabilistic approach for estimating the reliability of connections in a large train network. Experiments on real customer queries and real timetables for all trains in Germany show that our approach can be implemented to deliver good resul...

BACKGROUND The health-related quality of life in stroke patients (HRQOLISP-40, short version) survey was developed in Nigeria and constitutes a 40-item, multidimensional, self-administrated questionnaire. We assessed the validity and reliability of the HRQOLISP-40 Spanish version for stroke patients in Colombia. METHODS The analysis included factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Rasc...