OBJECTIVE To confirm the reliability and validity of a previously validated evaluation instrument in a new context. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, the processes and results of testing Cooking Matters' (CM) use of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program's Behavior Checklist as a retrospective pretest/posttest were described. The researchers determined reliability, face and conte...

This paper deals with digital VLSI design aspects related to reliability. The focus is on the problem of reliability evaluation in combinational logic circuits. We present some methods for this evaluation that can be easily integrated in a tradidional design flow. Also we describe suitable metrics for performance estimation of concurrent error detection schemes.

We suggest a new method for creating and using gold-standard datasets for word similarity evaluation. Our goal is to improve the reliability of the evaluation, and we do this by redesigning the annotation task to achieve higher inter-rater agreement, and by defining a performance measure which takes the reliability of each annotation decision in the dataset into account.

Network reliability analyses have received much attention in heterogeneous wireless network performance evaluation during the last few years. In this paper, a method for heterogeneous wireless network reliability evaluation to meet the required levels of heterogeneous wireless network differences of various graph-theoretic connectivity measures is proposed. A concept of heterogeneous wireless n...

In order to solve reliability evaluation of life of electromagnetic valve of EMUs, this paper evaluates the life of electromagnetic valve under small sample size based on zero-failure data. Firstly, this paper selects the prior distribution of the failure probability, and then the posteriori distribution is obtained by using the Bayes method so that the Bayes estimation can be received under th...

Traffic conditions on arterials tend to be consistent during peak hours; yet, non-recurring events unpredictably affect these conditions. It is vital, however, for transportation planners as well as users of the facility to be able to assess traffic conditions. Therefore, a reliability performance measure is essential for evaluation. Reliability can take many measures. Various measures are chos...

Clinical evaluation of scapular dyskinesis (SD) aims to identify abnormal scapulothoracic movement, underlying causal factors, and the potential relationship with shoulder symptoms. The literature proposes different methods of dynamic clinical evaluation of SD, but improved reliability and agreement values are needed. The present study aimed to evaluate the intrarater and interrater agreement a...

background: there is a global interest for deploying faculty members’ activities evaluation systems, however implementing a fair and reliable system is a challenging issue. in this study, the authors devised a model for evaluation of faculty members’ activities with regard to their viewpoints and meta-evaluation standards. materials and methods: the reliability of the current faculty members’ a...