The Relative Operating Characteristic in Psychology
The clinician looking, listening, or feeling for signs of a disease may far prefer a false alarm to a miss, particularly if the disease is serious and contagious. On the other h...
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Modeled Variance in Two-Level Models
The concept of explained proportion of variance or modeled proportion of variance is reviewed in the situation of the random effects hierarchical two-level model. It is argued t...
Robustness of partial least-squares method for estimating latent variable quality structures
Latent variable structural models and the partial least-squares (PLS) estimation procedure have found increased interest since being used in the context of customer satisfaction...
Image and video upscaling from local self-examples
We propose a new high-quality and efficient single-image upscaling technique that extends existing example-based super-resolution frameworks. In our approach we do not rely on a...
Receptor and postreceptor defects contribute to the insulin resistance in noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
We have assessed the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of the insulin resistance associated with impaired glucose tolerance and Type II diabetes mellitus by exploring, by ...
Global traffic and disease vector dispersal
The expansion of global air travel and seaborne trade overcomes geographic barriers to insect disease vectors, enabling them to move great distances in short periods of time. He...
Measuring the Psychological Outcomes of Falling: A Systematic Review
The objectives were to identify fall‐related psychological outcome measures and to undertake a systematic quality assessment of their key measurement properties. A Cochrane revi...
The Sleep Hypopnea Syndrome
We have observed patients who clinically have the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome but have no apneas, instead having recurrent nocturnal hypoventilation. There is disagreement ...