AIM To assess the reproducibility of clinical diagnosis of occlusal caries using unaided visual examination and examination with an operating microscope (16 x magnification) and to determine the agreement between these 2 methods. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three experienced dentists used unaided visual examination and an operating microscope to grade, according to a standard caries rating scale, a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the reliability of the Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC) in children and adults with a myoelectric prosthetic hand. DESIGN Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability estimated from reported assessments by 3 different raters. PATIENTS A sample of convenience of 26 subjects (11 males, 15 females) with upper limb reduction deficiency or amputation and myoe...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of self-reported diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia in a representative sample of adults (719 men and 837 women) from the south of Spain. METHODS Self-reported data were gathered using a structured questionnaire. Biometric data recorded included blood glucose, total cholesterol and triglyceride concentratio...

Internet of Things (IoT) assisted application in agriculture shows tremendous success to improve productivity agriculture. Agriculture is grappling with issues such as depleted soil fertility, climate-related hazards like intensified pest attacks and diseases. Accurate forecasting outbreaks can play a vital role improving agricultural yield. Utilizing IoT technology for environmental monitoring...

OBJECTIVE To assess the interrater agreement of the diagnosis and the classification of a first paroxysmal event in childhood. METHODS The descriptions of 100 first paroxysmal events were submitted to two panels each consisting of three experienced paediatric neurologists. Each observer independently made a diagnosis based on clinical judgment and thereafter a diagnosis based on predefined de...

In 1960, Cohen introduced the kappa coefficient to measure chance-corrected nominal scale agreement between two raters. Since then, numerous extensions and generalizations of this interrater agreement measure have been proposed in the literature. This paper reviews and critiques various approaches to the study of interrater agreement, for which the relevant data comprise either nominal or ordin...

In mental health and psychosocial studies it is often necessary to report on the between-rater agreement of measures used in the study. This paper discusses the concept of agreement, highlighting its fundamental difference from correlation. Several examples demonstrate how to compute the kappa coefficient - a popular statistic for measuring agreement - both by hand and by using statistical soft...

The paper deals with the recording and the evaluation of a multi modal (audio/video) database of spontaneous emotions. Firstly, motivation for this work is given and different recording strategies used are described. Special attention is given to the process of evaluating the emotional database. Different kappa statistics normally used in measuring the agreement between annotators are discussed...

PURPOSE The subjective evaluation of aesthetic results in conservative breast cancer treatment has largely been used without questioning the observer's skills. The aim of this study was to evaluate interobserver agreement of the aesthetic results of breast cancer conservative treatment in three groups of observers with different levels of experience. METHODS AND MATERIALS Photographs were tak...

AIM The graded care profile (GCP) scale was developed as a practical tool in response to the Children Act 1989 to provide a measure of care in four areas: physical, safety, love, and esteem, on a bipolar continuum. This field trial was to assess its user friendliness and inter-rater agreement. METHODS 43 nursery children and 11 registered for neglect were each scored on this scale independent...