Background: There have been several attempts to systematically assess performance in bronchoscopy. Earlier validation studies have used bronchoscopy simulators, not real-life performance in patients. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the reliability and validity of an assessment tool aimed for the use in a clinical setting. Methods: Five junior residents, 5 senior residents and 9...

In this article we report on a new digital interactive self-report method for the measurement of human affect. The AffectButton (Broekens & Brinkman, 2009) is a button that enables users to provide affective feedback in terms of values on the well-known three affective dimensions of Pleasure (Valence), Arousal and Dominance. The AffectButton is an interface component that functions and looks li...

High quality instruments are useful tools for clinical and research purposes. To determine whether an instrument has high quality, measurement properties such as reliability and validity need to be assessed, using standardised criteria. This paper discusses these quality domains and measurement properties using the standardised criteria that were recently published by the COSMIN group. Examples...

PURPOSE Learning-style instruments assist students in developing their own learning strategies and outcomes, in eliminating learning barriers, and in acknowledging peer diversity. Only a few psychometrically validated learning-style instruments are available. This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable learning-style instrument for nursing students. METHODS A cross-sectional survey study...

BACKGROUND There have been several attempts to systematically assess performance in bronchoscopy. Earlier validation studies have used bronchoscopy simulators, not real-life performance in patients. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore the reliability and validity of an assessment tool aimed for the use in a clinical setting. METHODS Five junior residents, 5 senior residents and ...

Based on the RSA problem, Zhou et al.’s proposed a proxy-protected proxy signature scheme. They claimed that their scheme were secure and efficient. However, this paper shows that their proposed proxy-protected proxy signature scheme is insecure against the replaced warrant attack: the original signer can remove the old warrant from a valid proxy signature and then construct a new warrant, and ...

Abstract: Group signature is very important primitive in cryptography. A group signature scheme allows any group member to sign on behalf of the group in an anonymous and unlinkable fashion .In case of dispute, group manager can reveal the identity of the signer. Recently, S.Xia and J.You proposed a group signature scheme based on identity with strong separability in which the revocation manage...

This paper presents a novel group signature scheme based on the discrete logarithm problem. In this scheme the length of the signature is independent of the number of members of the group and it supports message recovery feature. In case, some members left the group or joins the group, the group signature remains valid. All valid signatures are traceable by only the group manager. Every member ...

In the recent research work, the handwritten signature is a suitable field to detection of valid signature from different environment such online signature and offline signature. In early research work, a lot of unauthorized person put the signature and theft the data in illegal manner from organization or industries. So we have to need identify, the right person on the basis of various paramet...