As to the long standing debate about whether EMFs can cause cancer, researchers hope this study will add to the already substantial body of evidence. The most extensive study to date, released in late October by the National Resource Council, found no conclusive evidence that EMFs cause cancer. A team of EMF specialists will use a special meter to take spot measurements on electromagnetic field...

The most popular criterion cited in the dance literature for advancement to pointe work is attainment of the chronological age of 12 years. However, dancers at this age vary greatly in terms of musculoskeletal maturity and motor skill development. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether objective, functional tests could be used in conjunction with dance teacher expertise to determi...

"Visual error criteria" have been developed as a means of measuring the distance between curves, in a way that corresponds more closely to "what the eye sees", than the usual norms on function spaces. The main contribution of this paper, is the application of this idea to the comparison of data based bandwidth selection methods. It is seen that which bandwidth selector is "best" is often much d...

PHARMAC aims to ensure fair allocation of funding across competing new medicines, and must ensure appropriate targeting of medicines to get best value for money. For this reason, our processes for assessing new pharmaceutical funding applications are necessarily diligent. PHARMAC’s process involves both expert clinical review, negotiation with suppliers, consultation with the health sector, and...

could have accounted for the observed failures, we reported the problems that were identified to the manufacturers and invited comment. None of the systems produced alerts for all of the 18 scenarios (table). In terms of prescription of drugs with similar names, none of the systems warned for all 10 drug pairs considered. The evaluators produced no discrepancies in assessing the safety of syste...

The article covers the methodology of assessment impact scientific-technological modernization and describes advantages disadvantages traditional methods. necessity improving for assessing effectiveness is scientifically substantiated an approach based on target evaluation criteria that take into account factors directions proposed. Unlike existing methods assessment, this includes direction en...

section environmental and behavioural economics university of kassel papers on agent-based economics nr 10 2 Abstract In this paper we present a methodology for assessing material flow dynamics and their regulation by including the level of suppliers, producers, consumers and waste treatment in the automotive industry and by combining economic and technological features of their activities. Giv...

The concept of usability contains different analytic tools, which support developers to focus on important aspects of IT-system design and evaluation. Usability research has focused both cognitive aspects of IT-systems (such as how to design the user interface), as well as an understanding of the work tasks the user performs using the IT-system. This paper presents an analysis of a set of commo...

ABSTRACT Research on the assessment of naturalistic inquiries is reviewed, and criteria for assessment are outlined. Criteria reviewed include early foundational and non-foundational criteria, trustworthiness criteria, axiomatic criteria, rhetorical criteria, action criteria, and application/transferability criteria. Case studies that are reports of naturalistic inquiries should meet the follow...

Supplier performance evaluation is a decision-making problem that involves quantitative and qualitative metrics. Although several models allow the use of linguistic terms such as "low" "high" to evaluate suppliers, none them enables application expressions, which especially useful when decision makers hesitates express their evaluations. This study proposes model based on Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS ...