The present study examined the distinct configurations, or profiles, taken by global and specific (cognitive weariness, physical fatigue, emotional exhaustion) burnout dimensions, their similarity across two independent samples of employees. In addition, this research also documented associations between identified predictor variables (perceived organizational support ethical leadership), a ser...

We explain the problem of selective inference in complex research using a recently published study: a replicability study of the associations in order to reveal and establish risk loci for type 2 diabetes. The false discovery rate approach to such problems will be reviewed, and we further address two problems: (i) setting confidence intervals on the size of the risk at the selected locations an...

Barriers to empirical comparisons of architectures are myriad and daunting, especially for physical robots. Architectures are implemented on different platforms that are often incompatible. Replicability is difficult to produce, and the multiple trials required for statistical significance are simply impractical or infeasible. The design criteria may be quite different as well, leading to poten...

It was argued that a statistically significant finding, confirming a direction prediction based on a psychological theory, is usually an insignificant event. Replicability is the real desideratum. Three types of replication were identified and their importance discussed in terms of examples from the literature. [The Science Citation Index® (SC!®) and the Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) ...

Cogmed working memory training is sold as a tool for improving cognitive abilities, such as attention and reasoning. At present, this program ismarketed to schools as ameans of improving underperforming students’ scholastic performance, and is also available at clinical practices as a treatment for ADHD. We review research conductedwithCogmed software andhighlight several concerns regardingmeth...

In this paper we present a new wavelet domain technique for texture analysis and test of pattern replicability. The main property of the proposed features is that they measure texture quality along the most important perceptual dimensions. In other words, we quantify and classify textures according to their directionality, symmetry, regularity and type of regularity. After the feature extractio...

The possible involvement of a specific overt behaviour pattern in the pathogenesis of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) has been under careful study. The characteristics of this overt behaviour pattern, called Behaviour Pattern A, have been described previously (Friedman and Rosenman, 1959). In brief, it is 6haracterized by extremes of competitiveness, striving for achievement, aggressivene...

Secondary use of medical data and use of observational data for causal inference has been growing. Yet these data bring many challenges such as confounding due to unobserved variables and variation in medical processes across settings. Further, while methods exist to handle some of these problems, researchers lack ground truth to evaluate these methods. When a finding is not replicated across m...

BACKGROUND This paper has two goals. First, we explore the feasibility of conducting online expert panels to facilitate consensus finding among a large number of geographically distributed stakeholders. Second, we test the replicability of panel findings across four panels of different size. METHOD We engaged 119 panelists in an iterative process to identify definitional features of Continuou...