On-line personality tests are increasingly being used in a number of areas, from psychological research to commercial testing services, and interest in them seems to be growing. In addition to those who are professionally concerned with psychometric testing, people in general (or at least a sizeable number of Internet users) seem to be fascinated by the topic. There are newsgroups and other dis...

NIMI (National Internet Measurement Infrastructure) is a software system for building network measurement infrastructures. Its design emphasizes (i) large-scale infrastructures composed from diversely-administered hosts, rather than infrastructures controlled by a single entity, and (ii) facilitating diverse types of measurements by diverse parties, some of whom are allowed richer access to cer...

Measurement of quantities is a core skill which must be inherent in all graduates from Quantity Surveying courses. Many students find this subject difficult to grasp, and the learning experience can be problematic especially in the first semester of first year. This is not unique to measurement as in many cases first year students are in the process of adapting to a new stage in their life, alo...

background liver transplantation is a life-saving intervention for many patients with end-stage liver disease. in the past, evaluation of successful liver transplantation was based on patients’ survival rate. however, in recent years this evaluation has been based on patients’ quality of life. various instruments have been developed to evaluate patients’ quality of life. nonetheless, scholars s...

Background and Purpose Professional commitment is frequently used as a humanistic care indicator. Thus, it important to design validate tool which able measure professional of nurses in Spain. In this study we aimed analyze the psychometric properties Nijmegen Professionalism Scale for Spanish (NPS-S) nursing order verify its validity reliability. Methods We undertook pilot testing validation N...