Behavior in Internet world is closely related to narcissistic personality. Internet is a necessary part of life for young: therefore, the discussion of narcissistic behavior and the implicit personality traits within Internet world has become an important issue for understanding the psychology and behavior of teenagers. Currently, well-developed narcissistic personality scales exist for academi...

We propose a CASA labelling method of the TF representation, which is based on the periodicity of the speech, related to the voicing. A local voicing index is estimated in four subbands after demodulation of the signal. This index is used as a reliability measure for both pitch identification and speech recognition. First, this model allows robust f0 identification thanks to the voicing index, ...

Uncertainty is inevitable in any reliability analysis of complex engineering systems due to uncertainties present in models, parameters of the model, phenomena and assumptions. Uncertainties at the component level are propagated to quantify uncertainty at the system level reliability. It is very important to identify all the uncertainties and treat them effectively to make reliability studies m...

The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) is widely used in many fields, including orthodontics, as a measure of reliability of quantitative data. The main goals of this study were to determine the multivariate intraclass correlation, a measure of intra-rater reliability, for the selection of 6 3D mid-facial soft tissue landmarks and compare the multivariate ICC with other measures of landma...

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products in state-of-the-practice software development has shown a substantial increase during the last few years. The benefits of COTS usage are clear: reduced development cost and shorter time-to-market. However, using COTS software in development activities also raises risks such as using software that does not sufficiently satisfy the requ...

The reliability of a system is often referred to as a quality index reflecting the capability of the system to complete the specified function within specified time in reasonably satisfactory manner under the specified conditions (including hard conditions: say, operating environments, input materials and soft conditions: say, system management and operator team, and computerized monitoring ato...

We conducted a reliability-generalization meta-analysis of 7 of the most frequently used measures of relationship satisfaction: the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT), the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMS), the Quality of Marriage Index, the Relationship Assessment Scale, the Marital Opinion Questionnaire, Karney and Bradbury's (1997) semantic differential scale, and the Couple...

We address the rating-inference problem, wherein rather than simply decide whether a review is “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”, as in previous sentiment analysis work, one must determine an author’s evaluation with respect to a multi-point scale (e.g., one to five “stars”). This task represents an interesting twist on standard multi-class text categorization because there are several different deg...