Adaptive item generation may be the next innovation in intelligence testing. In adaptive item generation, the optimally informative item is developed anew for the examinee during the test. Reminiscent of computer versus person chess games, the computer generates the next item based on the previous pattern of the examinee's responses. Adaptive item generation requires the merger of two lines of ...

We consider an efficiently decodable non-adaptive group testing (NAGT) problem that meets theoretical bounds. The problem is to find a few specific items (at most d) satisfying certain characteristics in a colossal number of N items as quickly as possible. Those d specific items are called defective items. The idea of NAGT is to pool a group of items, which is called a test, then run a test on ...

This paper describes a new hybrid term extraction technique for technical corpora. Our maingoal is to reduce the amount of noise in the list of candidate terms by restricting the lexicalitems that can appear inside candidate terms. In order to do so, we base our term extractionprocess on lexical items selected by a statistical test that targets items that are highly specificto t...

BACKGROUND Few case controlled studies have been published on the behavioural phenotype of Angelman syndrome (AS). Little is yet known about preferences in individuals with AS. METHOD Preferences for water-related items and non-water-related items were assessed in 27 individuals with AS and two matched groups of participants, one with Down syndrome (DS) and the other with non-specific intelle...

Dean of the Graduate College ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior of my life. He blessed me with the opportunity to learn from some of the best and brightest minds in the field of computer science as well as the opportunity to help others to learn and accomplish their goals in the process. He was and is my strength and present help. I would like to thank D...

Older adults typically display various associative memory deficits, but these deficits can be reduced when conditions allow for the use of prior knowledge or schematic support. To determine how era-specific schematic support and future simulation might influence associative memory, we examined how younger and older adults remember prices from the past as well as the future. Younger and older ad...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to prepare, pilot and validate a questionnaire to evaluate patient safety in the specific context of clinical laboratories. METHODS A specific questionnaire on patient safety in the laboratory, with 62 items grouped into six areas, was developed, taking into consideration the diverse human and laboratory contextual factors which may contribute to producing...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To develop computerized adaptive tests (CATs) designed to assess lower extremity functional status (FS) in people with lower extremity impairments using items from the Lower Extremity Functional Scale and compare discriminant validity of FS measures generated using all items analyzed with a rating scale Item Response Theory model (theta(IRT)) and measures generated usin...

Is content addressable in the representation that subserves performance in multiple-object-tracking (MOT) experiments? We devised an MOT variant that featured unique, nameable objects (cartoon animals) as stimuli. There were two possible response modes: standard, in which observers were asked to report the locations of all target items, and specific, in which observers had to report the locatio...