Cut scores are test scores used in mastery testing and in certification tests to identify those test takers who appear to have achieved at a predetermined level of proficiency. Cut scores are often used to differentiate test takers on a passfail basis. This paper takes up points raised by Berk (2000), discussing the use of reliability and error indices which are particularly appropriate for tes...

Binary oppositions are among the essential concepts and components of structuralism and linguistic and semiotic theories that are rooted in human ancient beliefs. One of the fundamental functions of the human mind is the creation of binary oppositions, which are seen in art and literature. The study of binary oppositions in literary works leads to a better understanding of them. This article is...

by proposing a predictive method with no adjustable parameter and by using infinite dilution activity coefficients of components in binary mixtures obtained from unifac model, the binary interaction parameters (k12) in van der waals mixing rule (vdwmr) and orbey-sandler mixing rule (osmr) have been evaluated. the predicted binary interaction parameters are used in peng-robinson-stryjek-vera equ...

newcastle disease (nd) is one of the most important diseases that affect birds; the epizootic nature of the disease has caused severe economic losses in the poultry industry worldwide. in this experiment nd virus (ndv) was inactivated by two different chemicals binary ethylenimine (bei) and formaldehyde. formaldehyde was used at 0.1%, while bei was used at concentrations of 1 to 4 mm. ndv inact...

density, viscosity and refractive index of pure, binary and ternary mixtures of diethanolamine (dea) and methyl diethanolamine (mdea) with water have been measured at different temperatures from 288.15 k to 323.15 k at atmospheric pressure. also, this study presents the effects of mixture composition and temperature upon these thermo- physical properties. to measure the density and refractive i...

in order to the enhancement of the quality of speech corrupted by additive noise, a speech enhancement method has been put forward based on the combination of spectral subtraction and binary masking. spectral subtraction is a powerful method for removing noise from speech and binary masking provides essential elements to be used in monaural speech segregation. in the proposed combined method, f...

in this article, multiple-product pvrp with pickup and delivery that is used widely in goods distribution or other service companies, especially by railways, was introduced. a mathematical formulation was provided for this problem. each product had a set of vehicles which could carry the product and pickup and delivery could simultaneously occur. to solve the problem, two meta-heuristic methods...