few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

An objective quality estimator for either still images or video should accurately estimate the perceived quality scores of a collection of stimuli. New applications and processing techniques will introduce novel distortions that will need to be quantified in terms of perceived quality in order to confidently evaluate an objective quality estimator. The subjective testing method used to obtain t...

Optimization of specific power of axial flux permanent magnet brushless DC (PMBLDC) motor based on genetic algorithm optimization technique for an electric vehicle application is presented. Double rotor sandwiched stator topology of axial flux permanent magnet brushless DC motor is selected considering its best suitability in electric vehicle applications. Rating of electric motor is determined...

BACKGROUND Assessment of medical communication performance usually focuses on rating generically applicable, well-defined communication skills. However, in daily practice, communication is determined by (specific) context factors, such as acquaintance with the patient, or the presented problem. Merely valuing the presence of generic skills may not do justice to the doctor's proficiency.Our aim ...

Recommender systems always aim to provide recommendations for a user based on historical ratings collected from a single domain (e.g., movies or books) only, which may suffer from the data sparsity problem. Recently, several recommendation models have been proposed to transfer knowledge by pooling together the rating data from multiple domains to alleviate the sparsity problem, which typically ...

Informational Efficiency of Credit Default Swap and Stock Markets: The Impact of Credit Rating Announcements This Paper analyses the response of stock and credit default swap (CDS) markets to rating announcements by the three major rating agencies during 2000-2. Applying event study methodology, we examine whether and how strongly these markets respond to rating announcements in terms of abnorm...