An important issue in public goods game is whether player’s behaviour changes over time, and if so, how significant it is. In this game players can be classified into different groups according to the level of their participation in the public good. This problem can be considered as a concept drift problem by asking the amount of change that happens to the clusters of players over a sequence of...

The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version (YPI-S; van Baardewijk et al., 2010) is a self-report measure to assess psychopathic-like traits in adolescents. The aim of the present study is to investigate the factor structure, the internal consistency, and the criterion validity of the YPI-S in 768 Belgian community adolescents (45.4 % males). In general, our study supported the YPI th...

This study compares the forward reach score, spine and pelvis postures, and hamstring criterion-related validity (concurrent validity) between the sit-and-reach test (SR) and the back-saver sit-and-reach test (BS). Seventy-six men (mean age ± SD: 23.45 ± 3.96 years) and 67 women (mean age ± SD: 23.85 ± 5.36 years) were asked to perform three trials of SR, BS left (BSl), right (BSr), and passive...

MANET is quickly spreading for the property of its capability in forming rapidly changing topologies network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. The security challenges in MANET have become a primary concern to provide secure communication. The Attacks on MANET disrupts network performance and reliability. The DOS (denial-of-service), Distributed den...

BACKGROUND The Achilles tendon Total Rupture Score was developed by a research group in 2007 in response to the need for a patient reported outcome measure for this patient population. Beyond this original development paper, no further validation studies have been published.Consequently the purpose of this study was to evaluate internal consistency, convergent validity and responsiveness of thi...

The aim of this study was to examine the impact environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measures on credit ratings given non-financial institutions by largest rating agencies according economic sector divisions. hypotheses were as follows: a strong negative institutions’ changes will result from ESG risk changes, reaction vary in different sectors. Panel event models used verify these hypot...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the internal consistency, validity, responsiveness, and minimal important difference of the Functional Status Score for the ICU, a physical function measure designed for the ICU. DESIGN Clinimetric analysis. SETTINGS Five international datasets from the United States, Australia, and Brazil. PATIENTS Eight hundred nineteen ICU patients. INTERVENTION None. MEASURE...

OBJECTIVE IMPACT-S is the screener part of the ICF Measure of Participation and ACTivities questionnaire. IMPACT-S consists of 33 items in 9 scales, reflecting the 9 activity and participation chapters of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The reliability and validity of IMPACT-S as an independent brief measure of activities and participation was exami...