PURPOSE Understanding the effectiveness of complex, face-to-face health behaviour change interventions requires high-quality measures to assess fidelity of delivery and engagement. This systematic review aimed to (1) identify the types of measures used to monitor fidelity of delivery of, and engagement with, complex, face-to-face health behaviour change interventions and (2) describe the report...

BACKGROUND The Prevention and Reactivation Care Program (PReCaP) entails an innovative multidisciplinary, integrated and goal oriented approach aimed at reducing hospital related functional decline among elderly patients. Despite calls for process evaluation as an essential component of clinical trials in the geriatric care field, studies assessing fidelity lag behind the number of effect studi...

We propose a fidelity measure for quantum channels in a straightforward analogy to the corresponding mixed-state fidelity of Jozsa. We describe properties of this fidelity measure and discuss some applications of it to quantum information science.  2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 03.67.-a; 03.65.Ud

A fidelity trade environment was conceived, formulated, developed, and demonstrated. This development relied on the advancement of enabling techniques including error propagation, metamodeling, and information management. These techniques were integrated with an existing commercial systems design framework and an intuitive graphical interface to create a fidelity trade environment. A sensitivit...

BACKGROUND Fidelity monitoring is essential with implementation of complex health interventions, but there is little description of how to use results of fidelity monitoring to improve the draft program package prior to widespread dissemination. Root cause analysis (RCA) provides a systematic approach to identifying underlying causes and devising solutions to prevent errors in complex processes...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based nursing education is an increasingly popular pedagogical approach. It provides students with opportunities to practice their clinical and decision-making skills through various real-life situational experiences. However, simulation approaches fall along a continuum ranging from low-fidelity to high-fidelity simulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the e...

We analyze quantum teleportation for composite systems, specifically for concatenated teleporation decomposing a large composite state into smaller states of dimension commensurate with the channel and partial teleportation teleporting one component of a larger quantum state . We obtain an exact expression for teleportation fidelity that depends solely on the dimension and singlet fraction for ...

In mark–recapture studies conducted on fixed-area study sites, apparent (or ‘‘local’’) survival (/) is the product of the probabilities of true survival (S) and site fidelity to the sampling area (F). If marked individuals permanently emigrate from the study site, apparent survival will be biased low relative to true survival. Similarly, estimates of mate fidelity will be biased high because si...

Many membrane-bound molecules in cells form small clusters. It has been hypothesized that these clusters convert an analog extracellular signal into a digital intracellular signal and that this conversion increases signaling fidelity. However, the mechanism by which clusters digitize a signal and the subsequent effects on fidelity remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate using a stochastic...

In many scientific and engineering applications, we are tasked with the optimisation of an expensive to evaluate black box function. Traditional methods for this problem assume just the availability of this single function. However, in many cases, cheap approximations may be available. For example, in optimal policy search in robotics, the expensive real world behaviour of a robot can be approx...