The increasing survival rate of infants with a complicated birth and perinatal history generated the need for a test of functional motor performance with the capability of identifying children under four months of age with delayed development which could be addressed with physical therapy. This paper describes a Rasch analysis of the psychometric qualities of the Test of Infant Motor Performanc...

The aim of this paper is to propose a model of decision-making for lotteries. Lottery qualities are the key concepts of the theory. Qualities allow the derivation of optimal decision-making processes and are taken explicitly into account for lottery evaluation. Our contribution explains the major violations of the expected utility theory for decisions on two-point lotteries and shows the necess...

As depression has become a major disease burden in Malaysia, an easy-to-use tool with good psychometric qualities is urgently needed to facilitate the screening process. The current study aimed investigate of 5-item World Health Organization Well-being Index (WHO-5) and optimal cut-off point for Malaysian context. A total 610 undergraduate students answered online survey consisting English vers...

Despite its importance, few validated scales exist to measure aesthetics in HCI. One notable exception, the Visual Aesthetics of Websites Inventory (VisAWI), has never been English. Furthermore, VisAWI contains negatively formulated items, which adversely impact psychometric quality survey scales. Consequently, this paper’s aim was development a positive-item version VisAWI, VisAWI-pos, as viab...

An Aspect Oriented approach to implement fault detection in automatic measurement systems is proposed. Faults are handled by means of “aspects”, a specific software unit to better modularize issues transversal to many modules (“crosscutting concerns”). In this way, maintainability and reusability of a measurement software are improved: indeed, once a modification of the fault detection policy o...

Abstract It is essential that intelligence assessment be integrated with creativity, although no instruments in Brazil do so. This research investigated the item difficulty and validity reliability of Bateria de Avaliação Intelectual e Criativa Infantil (BAICI) to address this gap. The first sample consisted 612 children (54% M) aged 7 12 years, second 377 students (56% M), some whom (N = 164) ...

NIMI (National Internet Measurement Infrastructure) is a software system for building network measurement infrastructures. Its design emphasizes (i) large-scale infrastructures composed from diversely-administered hosts, rather than infrastructures controlled by a single entity, and (ii) facilitating diverse types of measurements by diverse parties, some of whom are allowed richer access to cer...