In this paper we thoroughly investigate the quality of features produced by deep neural network architectures obtained by stacking and convolving Auto-Encoders. In particular, we are interested into the relation of their reconstruction score with their performance on document layout analysis. When using Auto-Encoders, intuitively one could assume that features which are good for reconstruction ...

Background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. The aim of this study was to clarify PSC statusin Iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.Nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (PSC) inMethodsSID and IranMedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...

In this paper we present the LIUM (Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Universit du Maine) and CMU-Q (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar) joint submission in the Arabic shared task on automatic spelling error correction. Our best system is a sequential combination of two statistical machine translation systems (SMT) trained on top of the MADAMIRA output. The first is a Character-based one, used to...

Automatic error detection is desired in the post-processing to improve machine translation quality. The previous work is largely based on confidence estimation using system-based features, such as word posterior probabilities calculated from N best lists or word lattices. We propose to incorporate two groups of linguistic features, which convey information from outside machine translation syste...

BACKGROUND Driver error and inadequate skill are common critical reasons for novice teen driver crashes, yet few validated, standardised assessments of teen driving skills exist. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the construct and criterion validity of a newly developed Simulated Driving Assessment (SDA) for novice teen drivers. METHODS The SDA's 35 min simulated drive incorporates 22 ...

QUESTION What is the inter-rater reliability of the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) instrument, and what is the error associated with individual scores? DESIGN Cross-sectional inter-rater reliability study. Thirty pairs of clinical educators each assessed one student after observing student practice over a 5-week clinical placement. PARTICIPANTS Sixty clinical educators from five...

In many areas of research, the precise measurement of hypothesized processes or variables (theoretical constructs, latent variables) poses a challenge by itself. In social sciences, unreliable measurements of people’s beliefs or intentions obviously hamper efforts to predict their behavior. Each measurement (response to an item) reflects to some extent the true score for the intended concept an...

The effect of providing error-flagging support during tests was studied in spring 2009 with two tutors on while and for loops. A partial crossover design was used for the study and mixed-factor ANOVA was used to analyze the students’ score per problem, number of revised problems, effect of revision on score and time spent per problem, and finally, the effect of errorflagging on adaptation and l...