Introduction: Numerous clinically relevant conditions (e.g., degeneration, inflammation, vascular pathology, tramatic injury, cancer, etc.) correlate with volumetric/morphometric changes as observed on MRI. Study of these changes necessitates the ability to label (delineate) voxel-wise classifications for structures of interest. The established gold standard for identifying class memberships is...

BACKGROUND Several professional contact and collision sports have recently introduced the use of sideline video review for club medical staff to help identify and manage concussions. As such, reviewing video footage on the sideline has become increasingly relied upon to assist with improving the identification of possible injury. However, as yet, a standardized method for reviewing such video f...

BACKGROUND In clinical practice, visual gait observation is often used to determine gait disorders and to evaluate treatment. Several reliability studies on observational gait analysis have been described in the literature and generally showed moderate reliability. However, patients with orthopedic disorders have received little attention. The objective of this study is to determine the reliabi...

Two studies investigated the mediating effects of liking and attributions of motives on the relationship between a ratee's reputation and helpful behaviors and raters' reward decisions. During managerial simulations, raters evaluated individuals after watching videotapes in which the individual's reputation and helpful behaviors were manipulated. Results indicated an interaction effect between ...

The same L2 speaking performance may be analysed and evaluated in very different ways by teachers or raters. We present a new, technology-assisted research design which opens up to investigation the trajectories of convergence divergence between tracked recorded what raters noticed when, whilst grading speaker’s videoed talk IELTS Speaking Test. devised graphs ‘noticing trajectories’ compare re...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their procedural knowledge in Iranian language institutes and universities. A questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework, and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EFL teachers from different gend...

National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to perceptions of outgroup competence. Raters' economic wealth predicted trait ratings when 1) raters in 48 other cultures rated Americans' competence and 2) Mexi...

Several studies have made positive claims regarding the validity, reliability, and utility of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). In this first of three studies questioning such claims, I focused on the root cause of many problems regarding O*NET: i.e., the practice of rating overly abstract and heterogeneous occupational units (OUs), collecting ratings on OUs that exhibit substantial...

Study 1 expands upon previous research by looking at the ability of untrained raters to detect pathological traits within a normal population of college students. In Study 1, 30-s video clips of 81 target persons were shown to 42 raters. Ratings of traits of personality disorders made by thin slice raters reliably predicted scores on the personality pathology measures obtained from the targets ...