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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"subjective and objective measures"”.
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Effects of graphical user interface inconsistencies on subjective and objective measures of usability
… in graphic direct manipulation interfaces. Objective and subjective measurement techniques were employed to determine how inconsistencies affected performance in an Apple Macintosh-based computer application called “The Personal Organizer.” Three groups of 11 participants, all familiar with …
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Exploring the impact of dysphonia and background noise on elementary school children's listening comprehension and cognitive effort: a study of subjective and objective measures
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Methods to Evaluate and Predict Student Success in Introduction to Animal Science at Western Kentucky University
… at Western Kentucky University (WKU) were given subjective and objective evaluation instruments on the first and last day of class. Students self evaluated competencies on each of forty-nine course outcomes using a scale of 1-100. Twenty-one demographic questions were also answered. Students were …
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Performance and alertness of railroad engineers on long duration trips
The present study investigated the performance and alertness of 8 healthy male participants between the age of 31 years and 65 years old in nighttime, long duration simulated train operation. Participants completed the simulator tasks twice, once alone (single run) and once with another person in …
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Superficial cervical muscle activation in chronic neck pain
… individuals who have suffered a whiplash injury and also in individuals that have not experienced a trauma to the neck. The mechanisms that cause chronic pain are unclear, and whether they differ in traumatic or non-traumatic onset is unknown.<br/><br/>A review of the background literature …
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A study of symptom profile and clinical subtypes of delirium
… phenomenology facilitates detection, understanding neuroanatomical endophenotypes, and patient management. This compendium reflects an integrated research plan executed over a five year period, employing detailed, standardized phenomenological assessments cross-sectionally and longitudinally. …
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Subjective and objective vehicle handling behaviour
… from a research project seeking to correlate subjective and objective measures of automobile handling. An underlying goal of the work was to demonstrate how a relatively simple lumped parameter model, suitable for effective use at the early stages of vehicle design, could be used to predict …
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Towards patient selection for cranial proton beam therapy – Assessment of current patient-individual treatment decision strategies
… tissue complication probability models for early and late side effects were developed and validated in external cohorts based on data of patients treated with proton beam therapy. Acute erythema as well as acute and late alopecia were associated with high-dose parameters of the skin. Late mild …
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Do Less Consistent Night-To-Night Sleep Patterns Impact Emotional Processing Among Healthy School-Aged Children?
… research has made considerable strides in understanding the complex, dynamic relationships between sleep and mental health, it remains hindered by simplified views of sleep and emotion across development (Meltzer, 2017). More recent research has instead attempted to examine sleep from a …
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Performance and Usability of Flexible Membrane Keyboards
… from silicon rubber, thus it is fully flexible and water resistant. Although a number of flexible keyboard characteristics are the same as standard keyboards (i.e. key size, shape and spacing), key-switch and key clicking mechanisms are inherently different. Since there is little or no existing …
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Evaluating the Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Word Accuracy
… primarily focused towards large-scale systems and industry, while other areas that require attention are often over-looked by researchers. For this reason, this research looked at automatic speech recognition at the consumer level. Many individual consumers will purchase and use automatic …
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An Ergonomic Evaluation of Aircraft Pilot Seats
… online. However, seat comfort is hard to define and difficult to measure. Several measures both objective and subjective were used to evaluate seat comfort in commercially available average pilot seats. Three pilot seats, which had the same material and similar adjustments but different physical …
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Evaluation of Military base Closure Alternatives
… The procedure recognizes both the economic costs and strategic benefits of a feasible solution. Though the cost estimates for a particular study may vary in magnitude, the economic portion of the model must focus on the net savings to the tax payer. Detailed cost estimates for each alternative …
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Outcomes of Selective Percutaneous Myofascial Lengthening Surgery (SPML) In Children with Lower Extremity Spasticity
… condition defined as a disorder of posture and movement that is caused by a nonprogressive abnormality of an immature brain which can result in spasticity (Paneth, 2006; Pelligrino, 2002). Children with spastic CP usually present with muscle stiffness which eventually leads to decreased …
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Memory appraisals by older people : associated factors and spousal relationship quality
… without dementia. Recent research suggests that subjective memory complaints may precede objective cognitive decline in older people, but whilst several factors have been associated with increased complaints, the pattern of factors associated with actual awareness of memory functioning is less …
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Investigating the relationship between sleep and postpartum depression: a longitudinal study examining the relationships between subjective and objective sleep during the perinatal period and postpartum depression.
… relationship exists between sleep disruption and depression. Not only is poor sleep a commonly reported symptom in those with depression, some aspects of sleep have also been shown to predict the onset of depression. Despite sleep problems being a commonly reported occurrence throughout the …
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Sedentary lifestyle and obesity in adults
… of engagement in physical activity (PA). Subjective and objective measures are both available to assess SB but little is known about the relative utility of these measures for epidemiological research. The purposes of this dissertation were to 1) evaluate the accuracy of 24-hour Physical …
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Evaluation of a Logo computer curriculum for upper level elementary school students
… to upper elementary school students' attitudes and performance using the computer programming language Logo. Factors considered included student entry characteristics, attitudes toward the computer experience, subjective and objective measures of achievement, as well as sex and grade. A …
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Analysis of Household Energy Poverty on Human Development Outcomes in South Africa, Using the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS)
… persists at the household level. To understand the dynamics of energy poverty at the micro-level, this dissertation examines how two different measures of energy poverty – namely, the Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI) and the Ten-Percent Threshold measure (TPT) – affect human …
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Usability of Pictorial Assembly Instructions for Young Children
… of instruction design on assembly performance and self-efficacy in young children. The mixed-method usability study evaluated the effect of gender, age, toy, and experience on assembly performance, frequency and duration of instruction looks, subjective evaluations, and usability problems. A …
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