Objectives: To assess the responsiveness of Goal Attainment Scaling compared with the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) and the 66-item Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66) in multidisciplinary rehabilitation practice. Design: Observational study. Pretest-posttest design. Subjects/ patients: Twenty-three children with cerebral palsy, aged 2-13 years. Methods: Goal Attainment...

The note describes the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) system developed at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India. In this competition, we have participated and submitted the results in the RTE-7 Main Task (3 runs), Novelty Task (3 runs) and RTE-7 KBP Validation task (2 unique runs for generic task and 2 unique runs for tailored task). For the RTE7 Main...

We develop a framework for forecasting multivariate data that follow known linear constraints. This is particularly common in where some variables are aggregates of others, commonly referred to as hierarchical time series, but also arises other prediction settings. For point forecasting, an increasingly popular technique reconciliation, whereby forecasts made all series (so-called base forecast...

Previous research on male subjects has conjectured that subjective selfreports of health status may lead to an upward bias in the estimated effect of health on labor force participation because subjects who are out of the labor force may be more likely to understate their health status so as to justify their lack of employment. In the descriptive analysis conducted in this article, we compare t...