This study investigated issues related to commonly used socioeconomic status (SES) measures in 140 participants from three cities (Atlanta, Boston, and Toronto) in two countries (United States and Canada). Measures of SES were two from the United States (four-factor Hollingshead scale, Nakao and Treas scale) and one from Canada (Blishen, Carroll, and Moore scale). Reliability was examined both ...

This paper proposes a method to monitor and assess human performance specific to high-speed marine craft operation. The high-speed craft crew’s ability to efficiently perform their allotted tasks is affected by the manner in which the vessel responds to the variable sea conditions. In general, the reaction of human body to high-speed boat motion and vibration is recognized as the main cause of ...

The inclusion-exclusion principle is a well-known property of set cardinality and probability measures, that is instrumental to solve some problems such as the evaluation of systems reliability or of uncertainty over Boolean formulas. However, when using sets and probabilities conjointly, this principle no longer holds in general. It is therefore useful to know in which cases it is still valid....

a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering (Ministry of Education),WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Univers...

Most enterprises have controlled claim data related to marketing, production, trade and delivery. They can extract the engineering information needed to the reliability of unit from the claim data, and also detect critical and latent reliability problems. Existing method which could detect abnormal quality unit lists in early stage from claim database has three problems: the exclusion of fallac...

This is a report of research project about developing musical instruments for interactive computer music. The project's name "GHI project" means that "It might be interesting that musical instrument shines, isn't it?" in Japanese. I examined the essences of instruments in my composition again on proverb "Taking a lesson from the past." First of all, I examined the relation between the performer...

This is an opportunity for you to ask questions on software reliability engineering that may help you solve problems on your development projects, in your research studies, or in teaching. There will be no presentations, all time being devoted to your questions. The questions may be on anything, ranging from theory to details of application. The panelists are highly experienced in the field and...

1 Plantarflexor Stretch Training Increases Reciprocal Inhibition Measured 1 During Voluntary Dorsiflexion 2 3 4 Running title: Stretch training increases reciprocal inhibition 5 6 7 8 9 10 Blazevich, A.J., Kay, A.D, Waugh, C., Fath, F., Miller, S. and Cannavan, D. 11 12 13 1 Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research, School of Exercise, Biomedical and 14 Health Sciences, Edith Cowan Unive...

In this paper, the concept of stochastic ordering is extended to belief functions on the real line defined by random closed intervals. In this context, the usual stochastic ordering is shown to break down into four distinct ordering relations, called credal orderings, which correspond to the four basic ordering structures between intervals. These orderings are characterized in terms of lower an...