Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard procedure for management of symptomatic gallstone disease. At times, it is difficult and takes longer time or to be converted an open procedure. The study was undertaken determine factors which predict LC. aim evaluate a pre-operative scoring method LC.Methods: This prospective conducted in department general surgery, MV...

This paper presents the Logic Scoring of Preference (LSP)-a general quantitative decision method for evaluation, comparison, and selection of complex hardware and software systems. The LSP method is a generalization and an extension of various scoring techniques. Its mathematical background is a continuous preference logic. An extensive software support for the LSP method is available. The meth...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine whether the use of a scoring method by sonoelastography in solid breast masses is helpful in differentiating benign and malignant lesions. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and eighty solid breast masses in 155 patients (147 benign, 33 malignant) were prospectively evaluated in a two-year period. For each lesion, B-mode sonography and sonoelasto...

1. Introduction This study aims at developing an automated pronunciation scoring method for second language learners of English (Hereafter, L2 learners) using both confidence scoring and classifiers. The pronunciation errors have been detected using the confidence measure from speech recognition [Franco et al. However, the accuracy of the assessment based on the confidence scores is not always ...

BACKGROUND Progress testing is an assessment tool used to periodically assess all students at the end-of-curriculum level. Because students cannot know everything, it is important that they recognize their lack of knowledge. For that reason, the formula-scoring method has usually been used. However, where partial knowledge needs to be taken into account, the number-right scoring method is used....

In higher education, a multiple choice test is a widely known format for measuring student’s knowledge. The debate about the two most commonly used scoring methods for multiple choice assessment number right scoring (NR) and negative marking (NM) – seems to be a never-ending story. Both NR scoring as NM do not seem to meet the expectations. However, available research hardly offers alternative ...