Products of several going and promising onshore offshore hydrocarbon extraction sites both in Russia foreign countries are known due to elevated level corrosive СО 2 . The article analyzes present procedures aimed at rating hazard extracted fluids, selection implementation measures for protection equipment pipelines against inner corrosion. Onshore facilities work within specific environment, w...

OBJECTIVE To summarize an extensive review of systems for grading the quality of research articles and rating the strength of bodies of evidence, and to highlight for health professionals and decision-makers concerned with quality measurement and improvement the available "best practices" tools by which these steps can be accomplished. DESIGN Drawing on an extensive review of checklists, ques...

The Common-Metric Questionnaire (CMQ), an incumbent-completable job analysis instrument targeted at both exempt and nonexempt jobs, was developed to address several limitations facing past worker-oriented instruments, including: (a) reading levels that are so high that they preclude incumbent completion; (b) items and rating scales that are so behaviorally abstract that it is difficult to colle...

Writing assessments often make use of analytic rating scales to describe the criteria for different performance levels. However, the use of such rating scales requires a level of interpretation by raters and if several raters are involved, the reliability of examinee scores can be significantly affected (Engelhard, 1992; McNamara 1996). Variability between raters is partly managed by rater trai...

Current recommender systems exploit user and item similarities by collaborative filtering. Some advanced methods also consider the temporal evolution of item ratings as a global background process. However, all prior methods disregard the individual evolution of a user’s experience level and how this is expressed in the user’s writing in a review community. In this paper, we model the joint evo...

Constructing a light weight domain speci c database management system DBMS is one way to design applications that e ectively ex ploit persistent technology We have implemented a domain speci c DBMS LabBase on top of the ObjectStore persistent object system which is basically a persistent C LabBase is tailored to the ap plication domain of laboratory information systems it is designed to record ...

Correspondence to: Dr Jeremy Hobart, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Peninsula Medical School, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK; Jeremy.Hobart@ phnt.swest.nhs.uk _________________________ A neurologist once told me that he found the subject of rating scales ‘‘exceedingly dull’’, while another found the area ‘‘abstruse’’. I have therefore attempted to produce an overview that is he...

In the present article, the effects of a non-linear load under balanced conditions on the rating of a transformer are analysed. Non-linear loads are related to temperature increases in a transformer, which lead to deterioration and reduction of lifetime. Due to the unwanted effects of harmonic components in non-linear loads, the load connected to the transformer should be reduced. In other word...

This paper investigates the influence of ratings on an emerging software application market, app market. Given the nature of software application as experience good and the general scarcity of other quality signals such as advertising or branding for majority of app developers, consumers' ex ante belief on app utility essentially relies on the app rating which itself is derived from the ex post...