s. Having an independent and reliable data source for validating the reliability of administrative data may seem obvious, but appears to have received less emphasis. Data collection methods should consider obtaining the same information in more than one way.

aim: smoking is the first factor of diseases, and death, and one of the major health problems all over the world.the aim of this study was validating the persian version of short-form decisional balance scale to smoke cessation in iranian workers.method: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 218 workers from automobile manufactory in bam city (iran) in 2016 using convenient sampling.fi...

conclusions our study showed that the persian version of yiat is good and usable on iranian people. the reliability of the instrument was very good. moreover, the validity of the persian translated version of the scale was sufficient. in addition, the reliability and validity of the three extracted factors of yiat were evaluated and were acceptable. results the cronbach’s alpha was 0.917 (ci 95...

1 Introduction Measuring interrater-and intrarater reliability is an important way of validating perceptual judgments of voice quality. One of the fields of research for which this validation is particularly important, is that which attempts to establish correlations between perceptual measures of voice on the one hand, and physiologic or acoustic parameters on the other. If reliability of a pe...

The star is one of the most fundamental architectures for interconnecting a large number of components in a network system. Based on the popularity of the star, the star network has been a good alternative to the hypercube-based topologies. Under the probability fault model, Wu and Latifi (2008) established an upper bound on the substar reliability for the class of star networks. However, a low...

[Context and motivation] It is desirable that requirement engineering methods are reliable, that is, that methods can be repeated with the same results. Risk assessments methods, however, often have low reliability when they identify risk mitigations for a system based on expert judgement. [Question/problem] Our goal is to assess the reliability of an availability risk assessment method for tel...