Assessing the comparability of different groups is an issue facing many researchers and evaluators in a variety of settings. Commonly, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is incorrectly used to demonstrate comparability when a non-significant result is found. This is problematic because a failure to find a difference between groups is not equivalent to showing that the groups are compar...

The standardisation of measurements is of high priority in laboratory medicine, its purpose being to achieve closer comparability of results obtained using routine measurement procedures. At present, there is international cooperation in developing reference measurement systems (reference methods, reference materials, and reference laboratory networks) for analytes of clinical significance. The...

Network reliability is an important issue in the area of distributed computing. Most of the early work in this area takes a probabilistic approach to the problem. However, sometimes it is important to incorporate subjective reliability estimates into the measure. To serve this goal, we propose the use of the weighted integrity, a measure of graph vulnerability. The weighted integrity problem is...

In this study, we demonstrate a negative result from a work on comparable corpora which forces us to address a problem of comparability in both human and machine translation. We state that it is not always defined similarly, and comparable corpora used in contrastive linguistics or human translation analysis cannot always be applied for statistical machine translation (SMT). So, we revise the d...

In this study, we generalize the comparability conditions, addressed in Comparability of ideals and valuation over rings [2], between certain maximal ideals and fractional ideals of D which also force D to be a quasi-local domain. Also, we introduce the notion of an almost totally ordered group and establish that: “An integral domain D is an AVD if and only if the group of divisibility of D is ...

A description of the development of a strategy for improving the standardization of coagulation tests and the rationale behind the recommendations that follow are the subject of this position paper. Such an endeavor has been occasioned by the advances in the technology for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of hemorrhagic and thromboembolic diseases. These and anticipated further advances ...

In recent years, tests have begun being administered by computer. The potential benefits of computerized testing include more efficient test administration, flexible scheduling, quicker score reporting, more accurate examinee ability estimation, and expanded content/construct coverage. Although computerized testing is an enticing option, most testing programs find it necessary to offer both com...

We address in this paper the assisted construction of bilingual thematic comparable corpora by means of co-clustering bilingual documents collected from raw sources such as the Web. The proposed approach is based on a quantitative comparability measure and a co-clustering approach which allow to mix similarity measures existing in each of the two linguistic spaces with a ”thematic” comparabilit...

Comparability of lipase catalytic activities was poor when lipase was determined in 50 patients' specimens by a turbidimetric (Boehringer) and a colorimetric (Sigma) assay. Mean values of results differed by a ratio of 2.39. Optimal common conditions were defined for the titration of lipase activity in two commercial calibrators and in a home-purified preparation of human pancreatic lipase (HPL...

Information Retrieval (IR) has benefited from standard evaluation practices and re-usable software components, that enable comparability between systems and experiments. However, Interactive IR (IIR) has had only very limited benefit from these developments, in part because experiments are still built using bespoke components and interfaces. In this paper we propose a flexible workbench for con...