The role of test translation and test adaptation for Cross-Linguistic Instruments (CLIs)or multilingual tests is of vital importance given the increasing international use of high stakes assessments which affect and help make educational policy. Test developers have traditionally relied upon either expert-dependent or psychometric methods to create comparable CLIs. The problem with expertdepend...

Comparable news texts are frequently proposed as a potential source of alignable sub-sentential fragments for use in statistical machine translation systems. But can we assess just how potentially useful they will be? In this paper we first discuss a scheme for classifying news text pairs according to the degree of relatedness of the events they report and investigate how robust this classifica...

Therapeutic antibodies of the IgG class produced in mammalian expression systems bear two N-glycans in the CH2 domain of the Fc region. This glycosylation is highly heterogeneous and rMAbs produced in CHO, NSO and other popular cell systems typically contain up to 30 or so different types of glycans at each of the two Fc N-glycosylation sites. This ‘microheterogeneity’, together with the combin...

We consider the customary formulation of non-cyclic train timetabling, calling for a maximumprofit collection of compatible paths in a suitable graph. The associated ILP models look for a maximum-weight clique in a(n exponentially-large) compatibility graph. By taking a close look at the structure of this graph, we analyze the existing ILP models and propose some new stronger ones, all having t...

Current research on affective architectures for situated agents is fragmented into modelling aspects of emotion for specific purposes. To improve comparability of different architectures, we propose an approach that comprises the analysis of both, the niche space of target scenarios and the design space of architectures for autonomous agents. In this paper we focus on the niche space, and illus...

A topology τ on the vertices of a comparability graph G is said to be compatible with G if each subgraph H of G is graph-connected if and only if it is a connected subspace of (G,τ). In two previous papers we considered the problem of finding compatible topologies for a given comparability graph and we proved that the nonexistence of infinite paths was a necessary and sufficient condition for t...

OBJECTIVES This report examines the comparability between the rates of inpatient procedures for persons aged 65 and over using the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and Medicare claims data. METHODS The estimates in this report are based on data from NHDS and Medicare claims submitted by hospital providers for inpatient stays among Part A fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 65...

AIM To assess the comparability of five performance indicator scores for treatment delay among patients diagnosed with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention in relation to the quality of the underlying data. METHODS Secondary analyses were performed on data from 1017 patients in seven Dutch hospitals. Data were collected using...

the present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. this method has beendesigned on the basis of the software capability maturity model (sw-cmm) and themulti-level fuzzy inference model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting the comparability of F-FDG PET/CT scans using the PERSIST criteria for treatment response evaluation in a clinical PET/CT unit. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer were assessed for treatment response by comparing 2 F-FDG PET/CT scans, at baseline (PET 1) and 1 month after the end of induction chemo...