BACKGROUND Health care educators need valid and reliable tools to assess evidence based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills. Such instruments have yet to be developed for use among physical therapists. The Fresno Test (FT) has been validated only among general practitioners and occupational therapists and does not assess integration of research evidence with patient perspectives and clinical ex...

We present our entry for the Longitudinal Multiple Sclerosis Challenge 2015 using 3D convolutional neural networks (CNN). We model a voxel-wise classifier using multi-channel 3D patches of MRI volumes as input. For each ground truth, a CNN is trained and the final segmentation is obtained by combining the probability outputs of these CNNs. Efficient training is achieved by using sub-sampling me...

This paper presents a project whose main goal is to construct a corpus of clinical text manually annotated for part-of-speech information. We describe and discuss the process of training three domain experts to perform linguistic annotation. We list some of the challenges as well as encouraging results pertaining to inter-rater agreement and consistency of annotation. We also present preliminar...

Objectives: The main purpose of this research was to study and contribute to an accurate test of spastic limb. The intra, inter rater reliability of the test was examined. Methods: The present study was carried out in two parts In the first part of the study, the modified Ashworth Scale with Intermediate Scores (ASIS) was studied. During the second part of the study the intra, inter rater re...

BACKGROUND Infrared thermography is an aid tool that can be used to evaluate several pathologies given its efficiency in analyzing the distribution of skin surface temperature. OBJECTIVES To propose two forms of infrared image analysis of the masticatory and upper trapezius muscles, and to determine the intra and inter-rater reliability of both forms of analysis. METHOD Infrared images of m...

Improving simulation-based training is the focus of a Navy program of research titled Debriefing Distributed Scenario-Based Exercises (DDSBE). DDSBE is intended to optimize training effectiveness by demonstrating improved methods and technologies for assessing team and multi-team performance, diagnosis routines, and debriefing templates. A main objective of the DDSBE program in spiral 1 was to ...

among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. the purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of iranian efl learners’ production of compliments based on ...