An Evaluation of Accelerometer-derived Metrics to Assess Daily Behavioral Patterns

An Evaluation of Accelerometer-derived Metrics to Assess Daily Behavioral Patterns.

INTRODUCTION The way physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) are accumulated throughout the day (i.e., patterns) may be important for health, but identifying measurable and meaningful metrics of behavioral patterns is challenging. This study evaluated accelerometer-derived metrics to determine whether they predicted PA and SB patterns and were reliably measured. METHODS We defined ...

Models, Metrics, and an Index to Assess Humanitarian Response Capacity

The race to meet vital needs following sudden onset disasters leads response organizations to establish stockpiles of inventory that can be deployed immediately, without needing to rely on suppliers. These government or non-government organizations dynamically make stockpile decisions in isolation, and they do so without empirical metrics on how the stock will improve the response effort. To ad...

An automated behavioral box to assess forelimb function in rats.

BACKGROUND Rodent forelimb reaching behaviors are commonly assessed using a single-pellet reach-to-grasp task. While the task is widely recognized as a very sensitive measure of distal limb function, it is also known to be very labor-intensive, both for initial training and the daily assessment of function. NEW METHOD Using components developed by open-source electronics platforms, we have de...

An Evaluation of Risk Metrics

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...