sures retention or immediate memory, which is justifiably considered to be a significant aspect of mental capacity and one which is especially important clinically because of its close relationship to mental impairment. The test has obvious technical advantages, such as brevity of administration, lack of need for test materials and the objective character of the patient's performance. Neverthel...

{ Gate-level test pattern generators require insertion of scan paths to handle the at gate-level representation of a large sequential controller. In contrast, we present a testing methodology based on the hierarchical nite state machine model. Such a model is used to specify very complex control devices by means of a top-down design approach. Our approach allows the generation of compact test s...

Regular breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with timely and appropriate follow-up and treatment reduces deaths from these cancers. Healthy People 2020 targets for cancer screening test use have been established, based on the most recent U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines. National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data are used to monitor progress toward th...

Adults □ Adolescents Groups for which this instrument might be especially helpful? Populations appropriate for a screening program using the AUDIT include primary care, emergency room, surgery, and psychiatric patients; DWI offenders, criminals in court, jail, and prison; enlisted men in the Armed Forces; workers encountered in employee assistance programs and industrial settings; and college s...

The use of clinical laboratory tests has more than doubled during the past decade. Some observers of the health system feel that this growth is excessive and is a result of current payment systems. This article examines the effects of current reimbursement policies with regard to the use of laboratory tests and prices charged for tests. The results suggest the following: The method of financing...

This research group has been working towards building an environment which helps software development, providing support to some activities based on use case model. Prior to our enrollment in this research, the environment supported use case construction, requirements document analysis, requirements traceability and use case points estimation. In this paper it is presented a strategy to generat...

Six Sigma practitioners occasionally conduct studies to assess differences between items such as operators or machines. When the experimental data are measured on a continuous scale (measuring nozzle diameter in microns, for example), a procedure such as “Student’s” two-sample t-test may be appropriate. When the response variable is recorded using counts, however, Karl Pearson’s test may be emp...

Validity is an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence and theoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of interpretations and actions based on test scores or other modes of assessment. The principles of validity apply not just to interpretive and action inferences derived from test scores as ordinarily conceived, but also to inferences based ...