Although outpatient Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) has shown certain benefits in functional status and quality of life by many randomized controlled trials, no survival benefit has been reported. We hypothesized that the lack of survival benefit may be due to insufficient power of individual trials. In order to assess the influence of outpatient CGA on survival of older persons, we pe...

Abstract Confidence assessment (CA) involves students stating alongside each of their answers a confidence rating (e.g. 0 low to 10 high) express how certain they are that answer is correct. Each student’s score calculated as the sum ratings on items answered correctly, minus incorrectly; this scoring system designed incentivize give truthful ratings. Previous research found secondary-school ma...

generally ordering policies are done by two methods, including fix order quantity (foq) and fix order period (fop). these methods are static and either the quantity of ordering or the procedure of ordering is fixing in throughout time horizon. in real environments, demand is varying in any period and may be considered as uncertainty. when demand is variable in any period, the traditional and st...

this study aimed to investigate the washback effect of three alternative assessment procedures, namely oral-conferences, portfolios, and corpora-based feedback on the writing achievement and attitudes of iranian efl university learners. the participants taking part in the study were 156 native iranian students in a mixed reading-writing course. through the two three-month semesters, the learner...

Data elements are important part of a computer based cancer risk assessment system. The selection of the data elements are more important for the system built based on Case Based Reasoning (CBR) technology. The system CARA is a computer based cancer risk assessment system that adapts CBR technology. The data elements and an overall architecture that can assure high performance of the CARA are d...

The importance of managing logistics outsourcing risk has been realized by both scholars and managers. Thus, after we study the basic flow for CBR method, and analyze the connotation, characteristics and classification of logistics outsourcing risk, we construct a logistics outsourcing risk assessment model by way of Cased-Based Reasoning method to assess logistics outsourcing risk, and then di...