This systematic review aimed to synthesise information on indices developed to evaluate nutritional quality of meals. A strategy for systematic search of the literature was developed using keywords related to assessment of meal quality. Databases searched included ScienceDirect, PubMed, Lilacs, SciELO, Scopus, Cochrane, Embase and Google Scholar. The literature search resulted in seven differen...

The Writing Pal is an intelligent tutoring system that provides writing strategy training. A large part of its artificial intelligence resides in the natural language processing algorithms to assess essay quality and guide feedback to students. Because writing is often highly nuanced and subjective, the development of these algorithms must consider a broad array of linguistic, rhetorical, and c...

Abstract— Self-Organizing Maps for Structures (SOM-SD) are neural networks models capable of processing structured data, such as sequences and trees. The evaluation of the encoding quality achieved by these maps can neither be measured exclusively by the quantization error as in the standard SOM, which fails to capture the structural aspects, nor by indices measuring topology preservation, beca...

Quality indices in clustering are used not only to assess the quality of the partitions but also to determine the number of clusters in the final result. When these indices are evaluated in a case study, real data conditions or different clustering algorithms are seldom taken into account. Here, some of the standard indices used in the literature are compared using more realistic databases that...

This paper presents the main results of a benchmarking survey for Northern Power System in Vietnam to measure the Power Quality and Reliability in regard to short and long-term interruption. The survey was conducted in 28 provinces and cities divided into four groups to compare: mountainous vs. delta areas and industrial vs. agricultural areas. The evaluation of power quality is based on reliab...

Product quality for plastic injection molding process is highly related with the settings for its process parameters. Additionally, the product quality is not simply based on a single quality index, but multiple interrelated quality indices. To find the settings for the process parameters such that the multiple quality indices can be simultaneously optimized is becoming a research issue and ...

Quality control is mandatory, not only for inpatients but also for ambulatory surgery. We propose a list of indices which respond to the key properties of health care that have been defined by Donabedian. These indices should be part of a computerized quality control program which allows comparative evaluation between different centers. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

This study assesses the potential for computational indices to predict human ratings of essay quality. The results demonstrate that linguistic indices related to type counts, given/new information, personal pronouns, word frequency, conclusion n-grams, and verb forms predict 43% of the variance in human scores of essay quality.

This study investigated the potential effects of egg quality indices at 95% confidence level in order to minimize quality loss during different storage conditions. The chicken and quail eggs’ quality indices including weight, albumen index, yolk index, Haugh index in fresh eggs as well as after storing in moist sawdust, oil, and refrigerator were measured for six weeks. The results revealed tha...

Benthic diatoms have been universally used as indicators to assess water quality in lotic ecosystems. However, most diatom-based indices developed in Europe have not been widely used or tested in other continents such as Asia or Oceania. This study compared the performance of 14 widely-applied diatom indices in assessing ecological conditions in subtropical streams in South East Queensland (SEQ...