Information collected in a clinical study on a random sample of 99 patients with inoperable lung cancer, treated with radiotherapy, was compared to the staging information in the Maastricht cancer registry. Validity of sex (0% disagreements), date of birth (0%), histology (1% major disagreements) and treatment (1%) was high, but the validity of stage was lower: 12% major and 23% minor disagreem...

BACKGROUND PhD supervision is mostly individual and disagreement between supervisors and PhD students is a seldom-discussed topic at universities. The present study aimed to describe the experience of disagreement between PhD students and supervisors. METHODS Nine supervisors and seven PhD students from Sweden and England were interviewed using a video recorder. The recorded material was anal...

Selecting test cases in order to evaluate computer vision methods is important, albeit has not been addressed before. If the methods are evaluated on examples on which they perform very well or very poorly then no reliable conclusions can be made regarding the superiority of one method versus the others. In this paper we put forth the idea that algorithms should be evaluated on test cases they ...

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Development and evaluation of Natural Language Processing methods often requires text annotation. To gauge the difficulty of the task and increase the reliability and quality of annotations, researchers often recruit at least two annotators. The discrepancies in annotations by multiple annotators need to be identified and reconciled. We present a tool that identifies and helps reconciling and v...

The current study examined conflict resolution strategies parents and adolescents use when discussing a disagreement and how these strategies relate to adolescent depression. A global, observational coding system was used to investigate the specific engaging (i.e., active listening, autonomy promoting and expressing, and relational) and disengaging (i.e., hostile, controlling, and withdrawal) s...