background: the study was conducted to examine the comparability of the bmi and gallagher’s classification in diagnosing obesity based on the cutoff points of the gold standards and to estimate suitable cutoff points for detecting obesity among iranians. methods: the cross-sectional study was comparative in nature. the sample consisted of 20,163 adults. the bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia...

Comparability graphs are graphs which have transitive orientations. The dimension of a poset is the least number of linear orders whose intersection gives this poset. The dimension dim(X) of a comparability graph X is the dimension of any transitive orientation of X, and by k-DIM we denote the class of comparability graphs X with dim(X) ≤ k. It is known that the complements of comparability gra...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting the comparability of F-FDG PET/CT scans using the PERSIST criteria for treatment response evaluation in a clinical PET/CT unit. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer were assessed for treatment response by comparing 2 F-FDG PET/CT scans, at baseline (PET 1) and 1 month after the end of induction chemo...

Similarity and comparability are complementary notions that are easy to confuse and difficult to tease apart. Semantic similarity makes comparison meaningful, while comparison is often the pragmatic means through which similarity is perceived and constructed. To date, WordNet has found wide application as a basis for modeling and measuring semantic similarity, but is lacking as a basis for well...

Psychological theories of subjective probability judgments assume that accumulated evidence (support) mediates the relation between the description of a to-be-judged event (hypothesis) and the judgment. To scale a probability from the support for a hypothesis, these psychological theories make a strong independence assumption. This assumption is stated in the form of the product rule, in which ...

The realization that numerous factors contribute to how individuals make judgements and respond within interview based surveys is not new (Jobe & Mingay 1989; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky 1982). Over the past 50 years or so, investigations in the area of " respondent bias " have documented various sources of error, i.e., factors that may contribute to the difference between what is truth, what is...

A function diagram (f-diagram) D consists of the family of curves {i, . . . , ii} obtained from n continuous functions fi : [O, 1] -B R (1 G i d n). We call the intersection graph of D a function graph (f-graph). It is shown that a graph G is an f-graph if and only if its complement 0 is a comparability graph. An f-diagram generalizes the notion cf a permutation diagram where the fi are linear ...