The scale development process is critical to building knowledge in human and social sciences. The present paper aimed (a) to provide a systematic review of the published literature regarding current practices of the scale development process, (b) to assess the main limitations reported by the authors in these processes, and (c) to provide a set of recommendations for best practices in future sc...

onprior evidence thatobservation isused infrequently inmen with low-risk disease,5 this study establishes that active surveillance use is low. Usage increases as the inclusion criteria for surveillance becomemore stringent, ie, less likely tomiss significant disease. While active surveillance is aptly applied to elderly men, its use is sporadic, confined to academic and regional hospitals, and ...

Medical imaging technology is becoming an important component of large number of applications such as diagnosis, research, and treatment. Medical images like X-Ray, CT, MRI, PET and SPECT have minute information about heart brain and nerves. These images need to be accurate and free from noise. Noise reduction plays an important role in medical imaging. Various method of noise removal such as f...

Medical imaging technology is becoming an important component of large number of applications such as diagnosis, research, and treatment. Medical images like X-Ray, CT, MRI, PET and SPECT have minute information about heart brain and nerves. These images need to be accurate and free from noise. Noise reduction plays an important role in medical imaging. Various methods of noise removal such as:...

w w w . i j e c t . o r g 240 InternatIonal Journal of electronIcs & communIcatIon technology Abstract Spectrum sensing has reborn as a very active research area over recent years. As it is one of the most important task performed by cognitive radio and the performance of the other functions of cognitive radio is based on the spectrum sensing. So it is very necessary for cognitive radio to perf...

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. In 2015, there is nothing spectacular about registers. To collect information on the outcome of treatments is as old as medicine itself. Registries merely took the con...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the barriers and motivations for adopting RFID, the level of RFID implementation, the processes RFID is utilized in, and issues in the deployment of RFID. Design/methodology/approach a survey instrument was developed based on a literature review. The survey was then distributed to the members of the Association for Operations Management (APICS...

Research based on randomized experiments (along with high-quality quasi-experiments) has gained traction in education circles in recent years. There is little doubt this has been driven in large part by the shift in research funding strategy by the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences under Grover Whitehurst’s lead, described in more detail in his article in this issue. Dia...

Public policy and scientific knowledge concerning deterrence have long been marching in different directions. Despite the proliferation of threestrikes, mandatory minimum, and concealed weapons laws and retention of capital punishment in 37 states, there is little credible evidence that changes in sanctions affect crime rates, and there is no credible evidence that capital punishment deters bet...