BACKGROUND Assessment of the quality of general movements (GMs) is an early clinical marker for prediction of cerebral palsy. AIMS To explore how the General Movements Assessment (GMsA) relates to traditional newborn and infant measures currently in use. STUDY DESIGN A prospective cohort design was used to examine concurrent validity of the GMsA in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) survivors (...

OBJECTIVE To compare the level of anxiety and performance of nursing students when performing a clinical simulation through the traditional method of assessment with the presence of an evaluator and through a filmed assessment without the presence of an evaluator. METHODOLOGY Controlled trial with the participation of Brazilian public university 20 students who were randomly assigned to one o...

In the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. This leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. The advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. The selection of criteria of p...

An intrusion tolerant database uses damage assessment techniques to detect damage propagation scales in a corrupted database system. Traditional damage assessment approaches in a intrusion tolerant database system can only locate damages which are caused by reading corrupted data. In fact, there are many other damage spreading patterns that have not been considered in traditional damage assessm...