Statistical learning methods are commonly applied in content-based video and image retrieval. Such methods require a large number of examples which are usually obtained through a manual annotation process, that is human raters review images and assign semantic concept labels. The human judgement, however, cannot be regarded as the ultimate truth because of its subjectiveness and the likelihood ...

This report has two main purposes. First, we combine well-known analytical approaches to conduct a comprehensive assessment of agreement and correlation of rating-pairs and to dis-entangle these often confused concepts, providing a best-practice example on concrete data and a tutorial for future reference. Second, we explore whether a screening questionnaire developed for use with parents can b...

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief screening measure of emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess reliability and validity of the Greek version of the SDQ. A representative Greek sample of 1194 adolescents (aged 11 to 17 years) and their parents completed the SDQ along with other measures. Internal consiste...

Deep neck flexor muscle endurance test is valuable in assessment of patients with forward head posture, neck pain, migraine & headache. Little data is available regarding normative values of DNF muscle endurance test in Indian population. The current study established the normative data for performance of deep cervical flexor muscle endurance test in a group of active males and females. Ninety ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate inter-rater reliability of Braden Scale, Norton Scale and Waterlow Scale for pressure ulcer risk assessment in clinical practice. The design of the study was cross-sectional. A total of 23 patients at pressure ulcer risk were included in the study, and 6 best registered nurses conducted three subsequent risk assessments for all included patients. They...

background motion artifacts that degrade image quality of coronary ct angiography (ccta) in patients with high heart rates may be reduced with specific automatic motion correction algorithms (amc). conclusions ccta image quality improves significantly with amc in patients with high heart rates and reduces the proportion of non-diagnostic examinations. results mean heart rate during ccta was 61 ...

OBJECTIVE To determine test-retest and inter-rater reliability of hand-held dynamometry when used to measure knee--extensor strength in patients with advanced cancer. SUBJECTS Adults with metastatic or locally advanced cancer recruited from palliative care services to a study of the risk factors for falls. METHODS Consecutive recruits (n = 30) underwent repeat testing after an interval of 1...

Developing code free of defects is a major concern for the object-oriented software community. In this paper, we classify design defects as those within classes ( intra-class), those among classes ( interclasses), and those of semantic nature (behavioral). Then, we introduce guidelines to automate the detection and correction of inter-class design defects: We assume that design patterns embody ...

The last few decades have seen increased theoretical and empirical interest in multidimensional measures of welfare. This paper develops a two-parameter class of welfare indices that is sensitive to two distinct forms of inter-personal inequality in the multidimensional framework. The first form of inequality pertains to the spread of each dimensional achievement across the population, as would...