This paper presents a new, non-binary measure of the reliability of broadcast algorithms, called ∆Reliability. This measure quantifies the reliability of practical broadcast algorithms that, on the one hand, were devised with some form of reliability in mind, but, on the other hand, are not considered reliable according to the “traditional” notion of broadcast reliability [8]. Our specification...

results intraclass correlation coefficient for left and right showed good to high reliability for the cross sectional area of lumbar multifidi (0.74 and 0.88, respectively) as well as the anterior-posterior dimensions of lumbar multifidi (0.89 and 0.91, respectively) and transverse abdomini thickness (0.73 and 0.85, respectively). conclusions rehabilitative ultrasonography is a reliable and non...

In this paper we focus on computational aspects of network reliability importance measure evaluation. It is a well known fact that most network reliability problems are NP-hard and therefore there is a significant gap between theoretical analysis and the ability to compute different reliability parameters for large or even moderate networks. In this paper we present two very efficient combinato...

BACKGROUND The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure is a widely used patient-rated experience measure which has recently been translated into Chinese and has undergone preliminary qualitative and quantitative validation. The objective of this study was to determine the reliability of the Chinese-version of the CARE Measure in reliably differentiating between doctors in a primary c...

We introduce a new correlation-based measure of spike timing reliability. Unlike other measures, it does not require the definition of a posteriori "events". It relies on only one parameter, which relates to the timescale of spike timing precision. We test the measure on surrogate data sets with varying amounts of spike time jitter, and missing or additional spikes, and compare it with a widely...

The reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) aims to design structures which should be reliable and economical. The RBDO involves the evaluation of probabilistic constraints, which can be done in two different ways : the reliability index approach (RIA), which describes the probabilistic constraint in terms of reliability index, and the performance measure approach (PMA) where the probabili...