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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"reliability and accuracy"”.
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Reliability and Accuracy of a Novel Photogrammetric Orthodontic Monitoring System
… This study quantitatively investigated the reliability and accuracy of Dental Monitoring’sTM proprietary orthodontic tracking system in comparison to an established reference. Materials and Methods: Intraoral scans (True Definition Scanner, 3MTM) and video scans (iPhone 7, AppleTM) were …
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The agreement, reliability and accuracy of a subjective-rating for technique measurement in rugby union after video-based training
… contact events, such as rucks, mauls, scrums, and tackles. Specifically, the tackle is the most common action to occur during a rugby game. Subsequently, the tackle (tackler and ballcarrier) is responsible for the highest number of total injuries during a season. The most effective tackle …
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The Employment Interview: a Critical Review of the Research and Legal Guidelines
… study was to examine the problems, limitations, and advantages to the use of the oral interview as a personnel selection test.</p> <p>Methodology: The methodology, qualitative in nature consisted of a review and examination of the published research relating to the oral interview as a selection …
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Evaluation of Travel Time Estimates Derived From Automatic Vehicle Identification Tags in San Antonio, TX
… identification (AVI) system, including the reliability and accuracy of the AVI system, travel tag level of market penetration (LMP) trends, and a comparison of aggregated travel time values with probe vehicle travel time values. This thesis serves as a first step toward the modeling of AVI …
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Graph Models and Shape Deformation for Image Segmentation
… using prior geometric information to improve the reliability and accuracy of image segmentation. Specifically, a new shape-deformation method is proposed to incorporate prior template shape information into image segmentation by deforming a given template shape to fit the detected low-level edge …
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Labview controlled study of the propagation properties of ultrasound in synthetic fog environment
… waves that are reflected back from body tissues and processed by ultrasound receivers to create characteristic images in varied applications such as cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology neurology and urology. Ultrasound intensity is primarily affected by the changes in acoustic impedance of the …
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Application of signal detection theory to the recognition of objects in colour-encoded x-ray images
… problems when interpreting x-ray images of hand luggage. This research seeks to determine whether the performance of the human operator can be improved, in terms of both reliability and accuracy, through the employment of a novel multiple-view x-ray imaging technique. Thus, a series of …
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Locations of AVI System and Travel Time Forecasting
… problem, travel time forecasting, the study of reliability and accuracy of the forecasted travel time. This thesis serves as a further research toward the modeling of AVI systems in which the effects of AVI site location, AVI site density, travel time forecasting are analyzed. The model based on …
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Call Me Old Fashioned - Is My Job Analysis Accurate or Not?
… selection, compensation, performance appraisal, and training program development. Despite the considerable evidence of human fallibility in other judgment processes, many have followed the implicit assumption that job analysis information is accurate without actually examining this proposition. …
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Vocational science and the politics of independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812
<p>Between 1754 and 1812 the Boston Marine Society developed vocational scientific practices adapted from day-to-day work routines to expand the navigational knowledge of New England's coastlines. For this reason, the Marine Society's navigational work suggests important parallels with the history …
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\(Pyrococcus\) \( furiosus\) amylase as a Candidate Sterilisation Time-Temperature Integrator
… industry to ensure food is safe for consumption and to increase storage life. To ensure safety, food is often over processed, which can significantly affect its nutritional value as well as taste and flavour attributes. In this study a candidate sterilisation time-temperature integrator (TTI) …
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Field emission measurements of solid fuel stoves in Yunnan, China
… particulate matter (PM2.5), organic carbon (OC), and elemental carbon (EC), as well as combustion efficiency and particle optical properties were measured during 37 uncontrolled cooking tests of residential stoves in Yunnan Province, China. Fuel mixtures included coal, woody biomass, and …
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Measuring Food Volume and Nutritional Values from Food Images
Obesity and being overweight have become growing concerns due to their association with many diseases, such as type II diabetes, several types of cancer and heart disease. Thus, obesity treatments have been the focus of a large number of recent studies. Because of these studies, researchers have …
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Analytics in professional sports: Applications of analytics in tennis
… such as American football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Professional tennis has not developed analytics to this level yet, but there is a litany of research on the different technology platforms that are currently available and being developed for the sport. However, little is being done to …
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The effects of alcohol and drug abuse on the sternal end of the fourth rib
… that osseous tissue undergoes predictable and patterned changes through the life of the individual that can be quantified and accurately correlated with skeletal age. The utility of any method of estimating skeletal age at death is dependent on two basic principles. First, the descriptive …
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Calibration of the COHERENT Neutrino Flux Normalization Detector
… in particle physics. Their unique properties and behaviors offer a distinctive window into understanding the fundamentals of the universe, potentially providing answers to some of the most deep puzzles in modern physics. CEνNS, or Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering, is a process …
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An experimental apparatus for the measurement of sorption isotherms of moisture in porous building materials
An experimental apparatus and test procedure to measure the sorption isotherm of moisture in porous building materials was developed and tested for its reliability and accuracy. The apparatus shows excellent potential for determining reliable moisture storage property data. The data are used in …
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Data Augmentation and Machine Learning for Risk Assessment in Healthcare Associated Infections
Acquisition and analysis of extensive datasets is, today, a central tool in most research fields. Machine learning provides powerful methods to obtain descriptive and predictive models for the data in many applications. The acquisition of quality information is fundamental for the reliability and …
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Enabling Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulent Combustion Simulations via Kinetic Dimension Reduction
… simulations can provide important metrics on the reliability and accuracy of a model, but remains a challenging and numerically expensive problem especially for large kinetic mechanisms and expensive turbulent combustion simulations. Various surrogate model and dimension reduction techniques have …
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The analysis and simulation of the spectral and statistical properties of road roughness for package performance testing
… is primarily a function of vehicle suspension and speed, but is ultimately caused by fluctuations in the road surface. This thesis introduces a universal analysis and classification methodology for discretely sampled road profile data. It originates from the premise that current laboratory …
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