BACKGROUND There is an increasing demand for the assessment of speech and language in clinical and research situations in countries where there are few assessment resources. Due to the nature of cultural variation and the potential for cultural bias, new assessment tools need to be developed or existing tools require adaptation. However, there are few guidelines on how to develop 'culturally ap...

Recently, self-healing technologies have emerged as a promising approach to extend the service life of social infrastructure in the field of concrete construction. However, current evaluations of the self-healing technologies developed for cementitious materials are mostly limited to lab-scale experiments to inspect changes in surface crack width (by optical microscopy) and permeability. Furthe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Studies show equivalency in knowledge when measured following Web-based learning and live lecture. However, the effectiveness of a Web-based orientation for a required clinical rotation is unknown. METHODS Medical students viewed a Web-based orientation and completed a 13-item evaluation before beginning a required 6-week community medicine rotation. Evaluation data ...

The document contains the supplementary materials for “Ensemble Diffusion for Retrieval”. The primary goal of this document is to provide the proof of used propositions in Sec. 1, which are omitted in the main paper due to the space limitation. As a secondary goal, we present additional experiments for a more comprehensive evaluation, including the quantitative evaluations in Sec. 2, the qualit...

There is currently a lack of in-situ environmental data for the calibration and validation of remotely sensed products and for the development and verification of models. Crowdsourcing is increasingly being seen as one potentially powerful way of increasing the supply of in-situ data but there are a number of concerns over the subsequent use of the data, in particular over data quality. This pa...

Previous research has shown that perceptual characteristics of stimuli inaccurately bias assessments of perceived memorability. However, little research has investigated how perceptual information using real-world study materials affects study time allocation and assessments of future memory performance. In the current study, participants studied a series of terms and their corresponding defini...