Super Resolution (SR) has become common, and some recent HDTV sets and digital cameras are equipped with it. SR is a sales point of commercial products. However, the resolution of HDTV sets equipped with an SR function has not been tested as to whether it is actually better than those of HDTV sets without the function, in part because the resolution difference between HDTV sets is not always cl...

Prior probabilities are central to Bayesian statistics. The Bayesian paradigm assumes that people can express uncertainty in terms of subjective probability distributions. This article will consider Hogarth's 1975 assessment that \man is a selective, sequential information processing system with limited capacity,. .. ill-suited for assessing probability distributions." Particular attention will...

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Objective The videofluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS) is the gold standard diagnostic tool to evaluate oropharyngeal dysphagia. Although objective measurements on VFSS have been described, there is no universal method of analysis, and the majority of clinicians use subjective interpretation alone. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the accuracy of subjective VFSS analysis. Study D...

Assessing and improving an organization’s digital preservation activities can rather troublesome and subjective. Different organizations have different levels of detail regarding the planning and operation of their digital preservation activities. Previous work on the assessment of digital preservation activities revealed that the assessment based on checklists and interviews wield subjective, ...

This paper verifies the effect of delay of voice information between the participants in a conference telephone call on the subjective assessment of the quality of the conversation. And evaluate changes in the assessment of individual respondents based on their mental state. Criterion of transmission quality is a parametr MOS obtained from respondents of subjective tests before and after the st...

This thesis set out to develop, examine, and test differing theoretical models of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). SWB is the subjective evaluation of an individual’s satisfaction with life. Early research into SWB found objective conditions, such as age, education, and gender, were only weakly related to SWB. As such, researchers proposed dispositional tendencies to explain the large amount of unac...

PURPOSE To determine whether specific sentence recognition assessments were sensitive enough to serve as objective outcome measurements that document subjective improvements in speech understanding with hearing aids. METHOD The Revised Speech Perception in Noise test (R-SPIN; R. C. Bilger, J. M. Nuetzel, W. M. Rabinowitz, & C. Rzeczkowski, 1984), the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT; M. Nilsson, S...

A person’s mood may directly affect a judgment of the uncertainty of a future event. Subjective probabilities were reported by subjects in a happy, neutral, or sad mood for personal and nonpersonal events. Two moods were induced by having the subject focus on particularly happy and sad personal experiences. Large, consistent mood effects are indicated. Relative to control subjects, happy people...

The immediate availability of a vast amount of multimedia content has created a growing need for improvements in the field of content analysis and summarization. While researchers have been rapidly making contributions and improvements to the field, we must never forget that content analysis and summarization themselves are not the user’s goals. Users’ primary interests fall into one of two cat...