In spite of all the efforts in different industries to reduce number undesirable accidents, a lot events always threaten industrial societies. These often cause huge damages environment, facilities and even some cases, fatalities disabilities for people. Therefore, it is important analyse numerous variables associated with accident considerations inter play among these variables. This paper ado...

OBJECTIVE To examine the factor structure of the 144-item Chinese version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and its association with age and gender in a large non-clinical population. METHOD We recruited 1966 non-clinical participants in China who completed the TCI Chinese version. They were randomly divided into two independent samples. One sample (n=983) was used for explorat...

What is factorial invariance? When conducting multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis, one should establish factorial invariance. If a researcher establishes factorial invariance, then he or she is measuring the same construct across groups or across time. Factorial invariance is assumed when making a comparison between groups or between time points. When doing multiple-group confirmatory f...

In a number of practical scenarios, such as video conferencing and visual human/computer interaction, objects that belong to a well defined class are segmented, normalized, and encoded, after which they are stored and/or transmitted, and subsequently reconstructed. The Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) optimally concentrates the signal power in a relatively small number of uncorrelated coefficient...