In recent years, evidence has emerged regarding the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT). Despite growing evidence in this field, there is need for appropriate research designs that effectively reflect the person-centred system of care promoted in osteopathy and provide data which can inform policy decisions within the healthcare system. The purpose of this systematic revi...

This paper presents an overview of quality and usability evaluation in e-learning. At the same time, it shows a method for evaluating e-courses by comparing the attributes of two (or more) e-courses using a detailed checklist. In this empirical study, several groups of students evaluated two e-courses with an evaluation survey consisting of a large set of quality and usability related attribute...

Defective products cannot meet the needs of consumers, and they also bring security risks. Prior product weakness detection methods resort to time and money consuming questionnaire, and the accuracy could not be guaranteed. As a result, this paper proposes a novel opinion-aware approach, PRODWeakFinder, which extracts product weaknesses from online reviews through sentiment analysis. PRODWeakFi...

Segmentation is one of the basic steps for image processing. This paper enumerates and gives the comparative study of various image segmentation algorithms and their evaluation methods. Finally after a number of comparative experiments some valuable results are being given. Keywords-Image segmentation, edge detection, thresholding techniques, the evaluation of image segmentation.

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This paper reports on a study assessing the consistency of usability testing across organisations. Nine independent organisations evaluated the usability of the same website, Microsoft Hotmail. The results document a wide difference in selection and application of methodology, resources applied, and problems reported. The organizations reported 310 different usability problems. Only two problem...

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In initially developing a model of case-based comparative evaluation, we have followed a plan that involved an early empirical evaluation by a noted domain expert. We describe the empirical evaluation and the lessons learned after we introduce the program and its knowledge sources and work through an extended example. TRUTH-TELLER, a program for testing a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) knowledge re...