[Purpose] This study examined the reliability of a clinical ability evaluation table developed in a previous study with the aim of clarifying the abilities necessary for therapists to independently implement their duties. [Subjects and Methods] Forty-eight physical therapists with less than 2 years of clinical experience were targeted for evaluation, 48 main supervisors, and 48 sub-supervisors,...

Although considered as not safety critical (safety function being performed by other sub-systems), railway supervision systems can contribute to hazardous scenarios. It is of primary importance to identify this type of scenarios and evaluate the behaviour of human operators. A state of the art in human reliability is presented. This article presents an experimental protocol based on an automati...

OBJECTIVE The German Version of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) has recently been published. The questionnaire investigates two common emotion regulation strategies (10 items) on two scales (suppression, reappraisal). Major aims of the study were to assess the reliability and factor structure of the ERQ, to determine population based norms and to investigate relations of suppression ...

The study was designed to develop a measurement of the positive emotion regulation questionnaire (PERQ) that assesses positive emotion regulation strategies through self-report. The 14 items developed for the surveying instrument of the study were based upon literatures regarding elements of positive regulation strategies. 319 elementary students (age ranging from 12 to14) were recruited among ...

Surveys suggest that supply chain risk is a growing issue for executives and that supplier reliability is of particular concern. A common mitigation strategy observed in practice is for the buying firm to expend effort improving the reliability of its supply base. We explore a model in which a firm can source from multiple suppliers and/or exert effort to improve supplier reliability. For both ...

The aim of this study was to examine the interrater reliability (trained vs. untrained raters) and criterion-related validity (manual vs. automatic timing) of the 4 × 10-m shuttle run and 30-m running speed tests (times measured). The study comprised 85 adolescents (38 girls) aged 13.0-16.9 years from the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence study. The time required to comple...

The increasing trend of integrating Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) into power systems could cause operational challenges in the system from flexibility and reliability perspectives. Respectively, utilities would be relied on local flexible resources to address requirements systems. In this respect, distribution participate ancillary markets along with wholesale energy capacity shortage system....

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) is a multidimensional measure widely used to access nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of CERQ-Short Portuguese version. A sample 1052 adolescents (aged 10–25 years old, 60.53% females) completed form, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, ...

A hybrid hydropower power plant is a conventional Hydro-Power Plant (HPP) augmented with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to decrease the wear of sensitive mechanical components and improve reliability regulation performance plant. central task controlling HPP determining how total setpoint split between BESS hydraulic turbine (power splitting). This paper describes Model Predictive Control...