Background: Social confidence is considered an important element in entrepreneurship. Objectives: Given the importance of employment and entrepreneurship of veterans, the present research aimed to determine the status of social confidence in veteran entrepreneurs of Zanjan Province. Methods: In this survey. the statistical sample included all veteran entrepreneurs of Zanjan Province with ...

The Assessment Operation Group in the Washington State Department of Health is coordinating the development of guidelines related to data development and use in order to promote good professional practice among staff involved in assessment activities within the Washington State Department of Health and in Local Health Jurisdictions in Washington. While the guidelines are intended for an audienc...

The characterisation of biomedical knowledge taking into account the degree of confidence expressed in texts, is an important issue in the biomedical domain. The authors of scientific texts use grammatical and lexical devices to qualify their assertions. We named these markers of qualification "confidence markers". We present here the results of our efforts to collect confidence markers from fu...

Benchmark dose (BMD) modeling has been touted as a more accu­ rate method for conducting chemical risk assessments. In this issue of EHP, a team of researchers applied BMD modeling to hundreds of chemicals whose health effects are already known in an effort to optimize the approach. To calculate the highest safe oral dose of a noncarcinogenic chem­ ical, regulators must first estimate the point...

When weak identification is a concern researchers frequently calculate confidence sets in two steps, first assessing the strength of identification and then, on the basis of this initial assessment, deciding whether to use an identification-robust confidence set. Unfortunately, two-step procedures of this sort can generate highly misleading confidence sets, and we demonstrate that two-step conf...

quality assessment in an educational activity is the most important action for improving this process and its totally or partly renewed resumption. quality assessment compares the existing and the desired situation. in the education system outcome, review the existing and desired situation is a turning point of quality assessment. therefore it is necessary to describe outcome desired situation ...

Optical Flow (OF) is the input of a wide range of decision support systems such as car driver assistance, UAV guiding or medical diagnose. In these real situations, the absence of ground truth forces to assess OF quality using quantities computed from either sequences or the computed optical flow itself. These quantities are generally known as Confidence Measures, CM. Even if we have a proper c...

The Assessment Operation Group in the Washington State Department of Health is coordinating the development of guidelines related to data development and use in order to promote good professional practice among staff involved in assessment activities within the Washington State Department of Health and in Local Health Jurisdictions in Washington. While the guidelines are intended for an audienc...

Frequently, a set of objects has to be evaluated by a panel of assessors, but not every object is assessed by every assessor. A problem facing such panels is how to take into account different standards among panel members and varying levels of confidence in their scores. Here, a mathematically based algorithm is developed to calibrate the scores of such assessors, addressing both of these issu...