BACKGROUND We aimed to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on the internal reliability of a multi-item scale by developing a procedure to adjust Cronbach's alpha. METHODS A procedure for adjusting Cronbach's alpha when there are inconsistent responses was developed and used to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on internal reliability by evaluating the standard Chinese 12-ite...

abstract in this paper, a fuzzy pid with new structure is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. in this study, a new structure and effective of the fuzzy pid-type load frequency control (lfc) is proposed to solve the load frequency control in interconnected power systems. the main objective is to eliminate the deviations in the frequency of different area...

introduction: coping responses are complex dynamic behavioral reactions that involve reciprocal influences between emotion and cognition but cognitive studies in iran have less emphasized coping responses of methamphetamine dependent individuals to distressing situations. to address this aim, the current study was designed to investigate the coping responses of a group of methamphetamine depend...

A multi-modal interface system is proposed to realize an easy conversation between human and computer. The system uses a task model to infer a suitable response for multi-modal information. The model has network structure and is composed of relationships between word sequences and their responses. This paper proposes an inference method using a task model and an algorithm to self-organize the t...

A subspace based blind method is proposed for estimating the channel responses of a multi-user and multi-antenna OFDM uplink system. I t gives estimations to all channel responses,subject to a scalar matrix ambiguity, and does not need precise channel order information (only an upper bound for all orders is required). Furthermore, the scalar ambiguity matrix can be easily resolved by using only...