When writing questions with dichotomous response options, those administering surveys on the web or on paper can choose from a variety of formats, including a check-all-that-apply or a forced-choice format (e.g. yes–no) in self-administered questionnaires. These two formats have been compared and evaluated in many experimental studies. In this paper, we conduct a systematic review and a few met...

Predicting mathematical performance in individuals is critical in the development of evidencebased interventions. Thus, it is important to use valid measures when measuring mental number representation. Using symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude comparison tasks is the current method for measuring an individual’s mental representation of numbers. However, recent research questions the validity o...

One way of generating revenue from broadband media content rests upon the assumption that multi-media content may trigger a greater intent to buy products and services impulsively. An experiment was performed in order to explore the effects of media formats on the emotions and impulse buying intentions for music compact discs (CDs). Three distinct media formats of World Wide Web pages were set ...

INTRODUCTION The provision of a written comment on traumatic abnormalities of the musculoskeletal system detected by radiographers can assist referrers and may improve patient management, but the practice has not been widely adopted outside the United Kingdom. The purpose of this study was to investigate Australian radiographers' perceptions of their readiness for practice in a radiographer com...

Combinatorial auctions are used for the efficient allocation of heterogeneous goods and services. They require appropriate software platforms providing automated winner determination and decision support for bidders. Several promising ascending combinatorial auction formats have been developed throughout the past few years based on primal-dual algorithms and linear programming theory. The Ascen...

Abstract Deficiencies of the four spectral formats i.e., 2%/50-yr, 5%/50-yr, 10%/50-yr and AASHTO (American Association State Highway Officials) 2009 demand modification for bridge design application in Canada. Among them spectrum is dropped from current investigation as its difference with Canadian Bridge Design Code (CHBDC) 2006 too large to modify. This study introduces an approach calibrati...

Objective: A direct comparison of different kinds of scale formats of ratings of comfort and of mood states as well as their relation to the cardiovascular response was the objective. It was expected that activation-related scales are associated with physiological measures and that comfort scales and ratings of mood states would give complementary information on the impact of environmental cond...