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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Index Score"”.
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Examining Group Differences Between Suicidal Veterans Classified as Wish to Live, Ambivalent, or Wish to Die Using the Suicide Index Score
… tiers of risk is applying the “Suicide Index Score” to discriminate individuals based upon their reported wish to live (WTL) and wish to die (WTD; Kovacs & Beck, 1977). Brown, Steer, Henriques, and Beck (2005) demonstrated those who indicated a complete WTD and no WTL were at greatest …
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A Comparison of Career Outcomes Among Community College Transfers, Four-Year College Transfers, and Native Freshmen
… as measured by annual income and a socioeconomic index score were related to differences in college origin. Three college origin cohorts were studied: community college transfers, four-year college transfers and native freshmen. In addition, data on gender, family annual salary, family SES …
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Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology
… And through using dimensional measurement an index is measured. This index can then be used to assess urban morphology. The data set ranges from businesses opening in 1865 to the present. Some are globally-distributed "big boxes"; others are unique one-store shops. The varied data set includes …
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Autonomous Vehicle Perception Quality Assessment
… subjective experiments that rate complexity scores. In this study, we propose a neural network to classify complexity. Subsequently, we study image-based perception quality assessment by using image saliency and 2D object detection algorithms to create an image-based quality index. We then …
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International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
… of the ICF Checklist in order to explain the PHI-score and the MHI-score of the SF-36. The specific aims are 1) to explore the percentage of variance of the SF-36 parameters accounted for by the ICF categories, 2) to identify the ICF categories which explain most of the variance of the two SF-36 …
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Strategies to prevent potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug reactions in older patients
… Exploration of the potential for a frailty index score to enable doctors identify patients at increased risk of PIP and ADRs; Exploration of the potential for the SHiM tool to enable doctors to optimise prescribing for older patients. RESULTS: The meta-synthesis identified four key concepts: …
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Assessment of water pollution arising from copper mining in Zambia: a case study of Munkulungwe stream in Ndola, Copperbelt province
… estimate the quality of water using the biotic index score. Finally, the relationship between physiochemical parameters and biotic index score was analysed to interrogate their inter-relationship with respect to water quality. The results showed that the average values of dissolved oxygen (DO) …
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An Investigation into Predictors of Competitive Success in a Large-Scale Group Foraging Task
… delay discounting assessment, competitive index score, and proportion of trials switched significantly predicted performance.
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Modelling customer satisafaction in service industries.
This research considers a Customer Satisfaction Index approach and its relative benefits to the UK community. It is focussed on the service industries in both the public and private sectors. It looks at, and develops the measuring and modelling processes involved and employs a Structural Equation …
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Investigating Sense of Community and Academic Success in First Year College Students in the Department of Natural Resources Management
… An adapted version of the sense of community index was used to collect data from first year students (n=90) in the Natural Resources Management Department. Linear regression was used to determine which variables had a significant influence on sense of community and academic success. The …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Perception Of Principals' Leadership Behaviors And Student Achievement
… as measured by school Quality of Distribution Index score, and school leadership based on staff perceptions of school leadership, as measured by the Survey of Supervisory Behavior. The leadership of seven schools was assessed by staff members in five different sub scales of leadership domains: …
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The views of physicians on health care quality
… this research project: To develop an objective index of health care quality which represents, in the best practical way, a comprehensive range of services provided at the health region level. To develop a comparable measure representing physician assessments of health care quality, and compare …
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Factors Associated With Impementation of the South Carolina Students Health and Fitness Act of 2005: Elementary School Principals' and Physical Activity Directors' Ratings
… perceived by principals. Of a possible maximum index score of 12; the mean score for implementation of requirements as reported by the 36 physical activity directors was 8.29. Conclusion Like with any research study; this study has several limitations including a small sample size; missing and …
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The relationship of the Diet Quality Index to prevalence of overweight in black and white adolescent girls: an examination of data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Growth and Health Study
… in the Washington, D.C. center of the NGHS were scored according to the Diet Quality Index (DQI) developed by Ruth Patterson and others. This index stratifies food intake into three levels for scoring across eight dietary factors. A score of zero showed that the goal was met, while a score of one …
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Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital Emergency Department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the Elders Risk Assessment Index
… data. The Elders Risk Assessment (ERA) Index uses administrative data and was developed to overcome barriers associated with patient self-reporting, nurse gathered data and proxy information. AIM This retrospective observational study was designed to investigate the potential for the ERA …
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Validating A Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method For Forested Riverine Wetlands Using Vegetation, Bird Surveys, And Landscape Analysis
… forested riverine wetlands using a vegetation index of biotic integrity (VIBI), bird surveys, and landscape development index (LDI). Specific objectives of this study were to: 1) determine the correlation between bird species richness, VIBI, and LDI with the KY-WRAM in forested riverine …
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Certified Nurse Midwives' Barriers Toward Sexual Health Screening Practices
… to screening and screening behaviors. The mSABS score, years of practice experience and the amount of time (in minutes) spent with gynecologic patients significantly predicted screening practice index score. This study provides preliminary evidence that CNM attitudes and beliefs (i.e. mSABS …
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Deep Learning Based Crop Row Detection
… our method obtained a mean IoU or Jaccard Index score of over 70% as reported on the test set. We trained our method on only a subset of the corn dataset and tested its performance on multiple variations of weed pressure and crop growth stages to verify that the performance does translate …
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Evaluation of a Participant Co-designed Lifestyle Change Program for Youth
… outcomes were noted: specifically, the Sports Index score of the Fels Physical Activity Questionnaire for Children (adjusted p-value = 0.0213) and the Physical Summary (p-value = 0.0407), Psychosocial Summary (p-value = 0.0167), and Total score (p-value = 0.0094) for the youth-reported …
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Diabetes Mellitus and the Prevalence of Periapical Periodontitis in a Scottish Subpopulation
… periodontitis (PP) using a modified periapical index score. Number of teeth, horizontal alveolar bone level, and number of root canal fillings were also assessed from these radiographs. In the diabetic group, glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels were reviewed and analysed with the data …
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