Measurement, Interpretation and Information

Measurement, Interpretation and Information

During many years since the birth of quantum mechanics, instrumentalist interpretations prevailed: the meaning of the theory was expressed in terms of measurements results. However, in the last decades, several attempts to interpret it from a realist viewpoint have been proposed. Among them, modal interpretations supply a realist non-collapse account, according to which the system always has de...

Passive Measurement and Interpretation

User satisfaction: measurement and interpretation.

Over the past 5 years there has been an increased interest in assessing users' satisfaction with health care services in England. Measuring and interpreting user satisfaction with reproductive and sexual health services can be complex, and efforts have met with varying degrees of success. This paper will summarise the methods that have been used to assess user satisfaction over the past 10 year...

The measurement and interpretation of organizational climate.

This study describes the development and application of a new organizational climate instrument, the Survey of Organizational Characteristics (SOC). The participants in the development phase were 94 master's of business administration students, and the participants in the validation phase were 77 medical professionals: 24 medical faculty, 17 postdoctoral students, and 36 medical technicians. Th...

Dynamic Acioss-Time Measurement Interpretation

Incrementally maintaining a qualitative understanding of physical system behavior based on observations is crucial to real-time process monitoring, diagnosis, and control. This paper describes the DATMI theory for dynamically maintaining a pinterp-,space, a concise representation of the local and global interpretations consistent with observations over time. Each interpretation signifies an alt...