PURPOSE The objective of this study is to examine test-retest reliability, criterion validity, and absolute agreement of a self-report, last 7-d sedentary behavior questionnaire (SIT-Q-7d), which assesses total daily sedentary time as an aggregate of sitting/lying down in five domains (meals, transportation, occupation, nonoccupational screen time, and other sedentary time). Dutch (DQ) and Engl...

In this paper, we examine the reliability of multi-path multi-stage interconnection networks (MINs) of different class. The bounded expressions for the time-dependent reliability for 16 x 16 Zeta Networks (ZTNs) and 16 x 16 Augmented Shuffle-Exchange Networks (ASENs) are derived. Furthermore, reliability upper bound and lower bound that is useful for the analysis of large networks is derived. T...

BACKGROUND Since stress is hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of obesity during adolescence, research on associations between adolescent stress and obesity-related parameters and behaviours is essential. Due to lack of a well-established recent stress checklist for use in European adolescents, the study investigated the reliability and validity of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (A...

Various criteria have been considered in the literature for selection of optimal sensor networks. Amongst these, maximization of network reliability is an important criterion. While there are several approaches for designing maximum reliability networks, uncertainty in the available sensor reliability data has not been considered in these designs. In this article we present two novel formulatio...