This study intended to determine the way validity and reliability i.e., psychometric properties were reported in the Applied Linguistics research articles. The study also focused on the measurement methods applied to determine the validity and reliability of the scores derived from the tests and questionnaires in the empirical studies. The corpus of the study included 331 empirical studies deri...

objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validityof the farsi version of the toronto alexithymia scale-20 in a sample of opioidsubstance use disordered patients. methods: 321 substance dependent patients (287 male, 34 female)participated in this study. all of the participants were asked to complete thefarsi version of the toronto alexithymia scale-20 (ftas-20), th...

The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e., duration-weighted positive feelings less negative feel...

This paper reports on user evaluation for a spoken dialogue system and the subsequent redesign of the dialogue strategy. An automatic telephone directory system developed at Philips Research, PADIS, was evaluated using both objective metrics and subjective evaluation techniques. Duration and the occurrence of misunderstanding leading tòdead-ends', were found to be the key factors that kept user...

Following Moore's Law, chip designers are pushing more and more transistors into the chips, and bringing transistor dimensions closer to the physical limits. As the chips are becoming denser and faster, the secondary effects which were negligible in the earlier technologies have started playing significant roles for the current state of the art technologies. Because of these secondary effects, ...

Article history: Received 12 October 2015 Received in revised form 11 October 2016 Accepted 14 October 2016 Available online xxxx

This paper investigates a set of objective picture quality measures for application in still image compression systems and emphasizes the correlation of these measures with subjective picture quality measures. Picture quality is measured using nine different objective picture quality measures and subjectively using Mean Opinion Score (MOS ) as measure of perceived picture quality. The correlati...

Boehm, Brown, and Lipow 1 have characterized the multidimensional nature of software quality in terms of a hierarchy of attributes. One of the high-level attributes is reliability, which they define qualitatively as the satisfactory performance of intended functions. This definition may be refined to the quantitative statement "probability of failurefree operation in a specified environment for...