The present study aims to evaluate the output quality of an online MT; namely, Google Translate, from English into Persian and compare its with translations made by human translators find out that whether MT applications are considered as aid or a threat translators. For application study, researcher designed translation test consisting 60 statements different types texts proposed Reiss (1989)....

Metamodels are designed to be used by machines and humans. For human users, the understandability of the metamodel is important. Experimental investigations of understandability in computer science have led to conflicting results. To resolve such conflicts and gain insights into the nature of some phenomenon beyond singular experiments, meta-analysis can be applied, i.e., the statistical analys...

Though Walvoord and McCarthy are the authors of this chapter, all team members have had input, and the chapter is based on the entire team's study. Thus "we" in this chapter refers to the team as a whole. We summarized some of our findings in Chapter 1 as a way of helping readers prepare for the classroom chapters. In this chapter, we complete that summary and we discuss implications of our stu...

This paper aims to investigate the effect of firm reporting quality, timeliness andquantity for disclosure and reliability of financial reports on the reaction of stockprice delay. Statistical population includes 111 active firms in Tehran stock exchangeduring 2010-2014 using Cochrane method with the confidence level of95%. Totally, they were 555 firms-years. In this paper, linear and nonlinear...

This paper reviews methods for evaluating and analyzing the understandability of classification models in the context of data mining. The motivation for this study is the fact that the majority of previous work on evaluation and optimization of classification models has focused on assessing or increasing the accuracy of the models and thus user-oriented properties such as comprehensibility and ...

Financial reporting quality has been beset with the major problem of non-compliance to company's corporate governance, ethics, and a regulatory standard which is prevalent in quoted manufacturing companies Nigeria incidentally affect their performance also have impact on various human capital diversity. On other hand, most financial statements do not reflect many factors that condition componen...