It is very common to examine reliability of triage scales using (weighted) kappa statistics. The point is that weighted kappa has grossly underestimated disagreements by one category and put more emphasis on extreme category disagreements; therefore, low prevalence of critically-ill and non-urgent patients has excluded the effect of extreme categories disagreement from calculated kappa coeffici...

temperature is one of the essential elements of forming a climate and plays a crucial role in the lives of flora, fauna and human activities. the extreme temperature is one of the thermal indexes in meteorological and climatological studies. the extreme temperature is divided into two types: the extreme warm and extreme cold. the extreme warm includes the temperatures much above the normal valu...

eXtreme Programming (XP) lässt sich systematisch so anpassen, dass es für komplexe und lang laufende Projekte anwendbar wird. Dadurch können die positiven Eigenschaften des XP auch für große Projekte eingesetzt werden, ohne die Kontrolle über die Projekte zu verlieren.

Metaphor is one of the twelve practices of Extreme Programming (XP), and definitely among the more difficult ones to teach and use. We present our experience with the use of metaphors and conclude with suggested guidelines for teachers.

We present a novel learning scheme to imprint stable vector fields into Extreme Learning Machines (ELMs). The networks represent movements, where asymptotic stability is incorporated through constraints derived from Lyapunov stability theory. We show that our approach successfully performs stable and smooth point-to-point movements learned from human handwriting movements.

Using data from the PISA 2006 field trial, Rasch item response models are used to demonstrate that extreme response tendency was exhibited differentially across culturally distinct countries when answering Likert type attitude items. A single attitude scale is examined across eight culturally distinct countries in this paper. Two avenues to ameliorate this tendency are explored: first using dic...

This article explores the applicability of Extreme Programming in a scientific research context. The cultural environment at a government research center differs from the customer-centric business view. The chief theoretical difficulty lies in defining the customer to developer relationship. Specifically, can Extreme Programming be utilized when the developer and customer are the same person? E...

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