The purpose of this replication and extension study was to examine how teacher delivery and student progress influenced experienced teachers’ perceptions of overall teaching effectiveness. Participants (N = 60 experienced music teachers) viewed 12 private lesson excerpts that included four separate conditions: (a) high teacher delivery and more student progress, (b) high teacher delivery and le...

Multiple Logistic Regression Just as in OLS regression, logistic models can include more than one predictor. The analysis options are similar to regression. One can choose to select variables, as with a stepwise procedure, or one can enter the predictors simultaneously, or they can be entered in blocks. Variations of the likelihood ratio test can be conducted in which the chi-square test (G) is...

BACKGROUND The fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test is a predictor of complications after Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). However, its prognostic value is not yet fully established in different age groups. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of admission fasting plasma glucose (FPG) as a predictor of 30 days after ACS, and the association of hyperglycemia with major cardiovascular events (MACE): death...

The paper reports on an investigation of attention and working memory as sources of intelligence. The investigation was concentrated on the relatedness of attention and working memory as predictors of intelligence and on the structure underlying the prediction. In a sample of 120 participants, intelligence was assessed by the Advanced Progressive Matrices [APM; Raven, J. C. (1962). Advanced pro...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between major depressive disorder and metabolic risk factors of coronary heart disease. INTRODUCTION Little evidence is available indicating a relationship between major depressive disorder and metabolic risk factors of coronary heart disease such as lipoprotein and apolipoprotein. METHODS This case-control study included 153 patients with major depress...

BACKGROUND Based on a large, representative unscreened cohort from Malmö, Sweden, we have recently reported that a single prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement at or before age 50 is a strong predictor of prostate cancer occurring up to 25 years subsequently. We aimed to determine whether this association holds for advanced cancers, defined as clinical stage T3 or higher, or skeletal meta...

in this paper‎, ‎we propose a modification of the second order method‎ ‎introduced in [‎‎q. li and ‎x‎. ‎y. ‎wu‎, a two-step explicit $p$-stable method for solving second order initial value problems‎, ‎textit{‎appl‎. ‎math‎. ‎comput‎.}‎ {‎138}‎ (2003)‎, no. 2-3, ‎435--442‎] for the numerical solution of‎ ‎ivps for second order odes‎. ‎the numerical results obtained by the‎ ‎new method for some...

Over the past decade, the object choice task has been used extensively to test the hypothesis that the ability of dogs to understand human social cues has resulted from the coevolutionary process of domestication (Hare et al., 2002). However, numerous factors can influence performance on this task (Reid, 2009), including artificial selection for attention and cooperation in specific working bre...

We introduce a word frequency-based classifier for the SemEval 2016 complex word identification task (#11). Words with lower frequency are predicted as complex based on a threshold optimized for G-score. We examine three different corpora for calculating frequencies and find English Wikipedia to perform best (ranked 13th on the SemEval task), followed by the Google Web Corpus and lastly Simple ...

Methods, such as holdout, random subsampling, k-fold cross-validation, and bootstrap, for making error estimation are discussed. Also considered are general techniques, such as bagging and boosting, for increasing model accuracy. Directory • Table of