Inter-rater reliability of a video-analysis method measuring low-back load in a field situation. 96 97 Chapter 7 Inter-rater reliability of a video analysis method 7 ABSTRACT Valid and reliable low-back load assessment tools that can be used in field situations are needed for epidemiologic studies and for ergonomic practice. The aim of this study was to assess the inter-rater reliability of a l...

objectives: the main purpose of this research was to study and contribute to an accurate test of spastic limb. the intra, inter rater reliability of the test was examined. methods: the present study was carried out in two parts in the first part of the study, the modified ashworth scale with intermediate scores (asis) was studied. during the second part of the study the intra, inter rater relia...

One of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. In this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (M/M/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

adopting a discourse-pragmatic approach, this study examines the synchronic multifunctionality of the discourse marker hâlâ from the perspective of (inter)subjectification. the findings obtained from the synchronic corpus of colloquial persian indicates that hâlâ has proceeded along the (inter)subjectification cline identified by traugott and dasher (2002), der (2010), and degand and vandenberg...

Many empirical studies are confronted with severe misclassification error. While interest is in the realizations of a variable Y (e.g. disease yes/no), only a related variable Y ∗ (e.g. the outcome of a diagnostic test) can be observed. Even in the case of simple prevalence estimation, naive estimation, neglecting the fundamental difference between Y and Y ∗, may be considerably biased ([1], [2...

We analyze the impact of vertical integration when a monopolistic producer can make a capital commitment before deciding on output. For the vertically separated industry structure, we ̄nd that opportunism resulting from competition between retailers leads to a longrun underinvestment in capital. With vertical integration, the capital investment is e±cient but output is monopolistically restrict...

the aim of this study was surveying the mediating effect of parent-adolescent conflict between inter-parenting conflict and risk behaviors. the study is description and the type is structural equation modeling; the population of the study is students of qods town which is located in tehran province. sample size is 610 students that were selected by multistage random sampling. the data were gath...