OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of endometriosis in general gynecological and infertile women presenting to hospital and to correlate symptomatology and stage of disease. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Gynecology Department of Mother and Child Health Center, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, from March 2000 to March 2002. PATIENTS AND METHO...

AIM The cardiac arrest simulation test (CASTest) assesses resuscitation knowledge and skills during a simulated cardiac arrest. The aim of this study is to validate an alternative scoring system for measuring individual candidate performance during research involving the CASTest. METHODS The performance of 537 participants was measured using the new scoring system. Evidence of internal struct...

Ratings on performance tasks from two scoring sessions of an eighth grade mathematics examination, developed by the California State Department of Education, were used (a) to study the feasibility of estimating IRT rater severity information within a scoring session, (b) to investigate the variation in rater severity within rating sessions (which we called rater drift), and (c) to examine the r...

A total of 982 individuals distributed in 11 lots belonging to 10 fish species from three Atlantic FAO fishing areas were sampled and examined to detect the presence of anisakid larvae in fish muscle. After hazard identification by genetic sequencing and exposure assessment by anatomic extent and demographic characterization of infection, all data were fitted for each fish species to a new prop...

When applying automated speech-scoring technology to the rating of globally administered real assessments, there are several practical challenges: (a) ASR accuracy on non-native spontaneous speech is generally low; (b) due to the data mismatch between an ASR systems training stage and its final usage, the recognition accuracy obtained in practice is even lower; (c) content-relevance was not wid...

To counter response distortions associated with the use of rating scales (a.k.a. Likert scales), items can be presented in a comparative fashion, so that respondents are asked to rank the items within blocks (forced-choice format). However, classical scoring procedures for these forced-choice designs lead to ipsative data, which presents psychometric challenges that are well described in the li...

In this paper we propose a multi-criteria model based on the fuzzy preferences approach which can be implemented in the prenegotiation phase to evaluate the negotiations packages. The applicability of some multi-criteria ranking methods were discussed for building a scoring function for negotiation packages. The first one is Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) technique which determines the sum of ...

This paper evaluates the scoring platforms for decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), examining their methodologies and highlighting strengths limitations. Using content analysis, we scrutinize of Prime Rating, DAO Meter, DeFi Safety platforms, evaluating code, documentation, security, team composition, governance, regulatory compliance. We analyze underlying assumptions data sources reli...

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...

Emergency healthcare systems in rural communities often have limited access to experienced trauma and emergency physicians. Advanced telecommunication technologies may offer an opportunity to help meet this need. We evaluated healthcare providers' satisfaction with the audio and visual components of an existing telemedicine system, and asked them whether emergency medical services (EMS) personn...