Mashup tools are platforms that enable end users to combine components from multiple sources and thus create, deploy, and share their own web applications. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the findings of two empirical studies on evaluation of mashup tools by means of subjective and objective measuring instruments. In the first study, data were gathered with the employment of SUS...

This paper expands the literature on peers' influence on a youth's behaviors through the examination of the effect of subjective normative social images of smokers (perceived peers' social images of smokers) on subsequent intentions to smoke and the relation between subjective normative social images and the youth's own social images, or prototypes. Data are from the two oldest cohorts (4th and...

The Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) is preparing a large number of co-ordinated subjective multimedia quality tests. These tests will be performed by laboratories located in Europe, Asia and North America. The subjective data will be used to evaluate the performance of competing objective multimedia quality assessment algorithms. The reliability of the subjective test data is therefore of gr...

There is currently no standard objective method for the assessment of developmental breast asymmetry. The results of corrective surgery in 24 patients with congenital breast deformities were evaluated subjectively (symmetry scores by patients and panels of observers), and objectively (linear measurements of nipple position and stereophotogrammetrically determined breast volumes). The latter wer...

BACKGROUND Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), a method of nutritional assessment based on clinical judgment, has been widely used to assess the nutritional status of adults for both clinical and research purposes. OBJECTIVE Foreseeing benefits of its use in children, we chose to adapt SGA and test its validity and reproducibility in the pediatric population. DESIGN We prospectively evaluat...

PURPOSE To establish a simple and objective assessment of the residual ridge height of edentulous patients, we investigated the utility of a newly developed "examination scale" based on our clinical research. METHODS The sites corresponding to the right and left first molars in study models (100 sets) of edentulous maxillae and mandibles were examined. Subjective assessment and assessment wit...

Research on Screen Content Images (SCIs) has become important as they are used frequently in multi-device communication applications. Perceptual quality is assessed for distorted SCIs subjectively and objectively. A screen image quality assessment database (SIQAD) consisting of 20 source and 980 distorted SCIs is constructed. A subjective quality scores is used for estimating which part (text o...

To assess the real-time transmission video’s quality, this paper persents a approach which used FR video quality assessment (VQA) model to satisfy the objective and subjective measurement requirement. If we want to get the reference video in the measuring terminal and to make a assessment, there are two problems which are how to certain the reference video frame and how to make the objective sc...

The treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) requires an increasing use of medical and economic resources. Therefore, the assessment of objective and subjective outcome of different treatment strategies is of considerable interest. Validated quality of life (QOL) instruments are one important means to assess subjective outcome of the patients. Frequently used generic instruments are the Short ...

Methods for the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of speech input / output systems are well established. However, user subjective reactions to speech interfaces may well be a more important predictor of real world success. A review of existing subjective measures of speech system usability reveals a number of limitations in the approaches taken. This paper then summarises the work ...