At present, various scar assessment scales are available, but not one has been shown to be reliable, consistent, feasible, and valid at the same time. Furthermore, the existing scar assessment scales appear to attach little weight to the opinion of the patient. The newly developed Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale consists of two numeric scales: the Patient Scar Assessment Scale (patie...

OBJECTIVE We investigated elementary school children's ability to use a variety of Likert response formats to respond to concrete and abstract items. METHODS 111 children, aged 6-13 years, responded to 2 physical tasks that required them to make objectively verifiable judgments, using a 5-point response format. Then, using 25 items, we ascertained the consistency between responses using a "go...

The paper integrates two independent studies of numeric morphology-based alpha-taxonomy of the cryptic ant species Temnothoraxcrassispinus (Karavajev, 1926) and Temnothoraxcrasecundus sp. n. conducted by different investigators, using different equipment, considering different character combinations and evaluating different samples. Samples investigated included 603 individual workers from 203 ...

Donation requests often convey numerical information about the people in need. In two studies we investigated the effects of numeracy and presentation format on the underlying affective and cognitive mechanisms of donation decisions. In Study 1, participants were presented with information about a victim in need, either in a frequency format or in a percentage format. In Study 2, we manipulated...

This paper describes a type constructor for nonstandard extensions of arbitrary types, generalizing the previous formalization of nonstandard analysis in Isabelle by Fleuriot and Paulson [1]. In addition to numeric types, nonstandard extensions of function spaces and set types also prove useful—they provide an elegant way to define internal functions and internal sets. The paper also describes ...

We examined the brain activity underlying the development of our understanding of negative numbers, which are amounts lacking direct physical counterparts. Children performed a paired comparison task with positive and negative numbers during an fMRI session. As previously shown in adults, both pre-instruction fifth-graders and post-instruction seventh-graders demonstrated typical behavioral and...

for an $n$-gon with vertices at points $1,2,cdots,n$, the betti numbers of its suspension, the simplicial complex that involves two more vertices $n+1$ and $n+2$, is known. in this paper, with a constructive and simple proof, wegeneralize this result to find the minimal free resolution and betti numbers of the $s$-module $s/i$ where  $s=k[x_{1},cdots, x_{n}]$ and $i$ is the associated ideal to ...

fuzzy measures are suitable in analyzing human subjective evaluation processes. several different strategies have been proposed for distance of fuzzy numbers. the distances introduced for fuzzy numbers can be categorized in two groups:1. the crisp distances which explain crisp values for the distance between two fuzzy numbers.2. the fuzzy distance which introduce a fuzzy distance for normal fuz...