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Comparison of questionnaire items for discomfort glare studies in daylit spaces

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Caroline Karmann, Clotilde Marie A Pierson, Sneha Jain, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

When studying discomfort glare, researchers tend to rely on a single questionnaire item to obtain user evaluations. It is unclear whether the choice of questionnaire item affects the distribution of user responses and leads to inconsistencies between studi ...

2023

On the Validity of Consensus

Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert, Jovan Komatovic, Manuel José Ribeiro Vidigueira, Pierre Philippe Civit

The Byzantine consensus problem involves.. processes, out of which t < n could be faulty and behave arbitrarily. Three properties characterize consensus: (1) termination, requiring correct (nonfaulty) processes to eventually reach a decision, (2) agreement ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

The competent Computational Thinking Test: Development and Validation of an Unplugged Computational Thinking Test for Upper Primary School

Francesco Mondada, Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

With the increasing importance of Computational Thinking (CT) at all levels of education, it is essential to have valid and reliable assessments. Currently, there is a lack of such assessments in upper primary school. That is why we present the development ...

2022

Assessing Computational Thinking: Development and Validation of the Algorithmic Thinking Test for Adults

Olivier Lévêque, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle, Marc Lafuente Martinez

This study describes the development and validation process of a computational thinking (CT) test for adults. The team designed a set of items and explored a subset of those through two qualitative pilots. Then, in order to provide validity evidence based ...

2022

Evaluation of a shortened version of the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) for upper extremity function after stroke: The Mini-ARAT

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Objectives (i) to create a shortened version of the Action Research Arm Test scale, (ii) to investigate its psychometric properties compared to the original scale and (iii) to externally validate it within an independent cohort. Design Prospective longitud ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Dataset for the comparison of two Computational Thinking (CT) test for upper primary school (grades 3-4) : the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Barbara Bruno, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

This dataset contains quantitative student data acquired during the administration of two validated Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for upper primary school (grades 3 and 4): the Beginners' CT test (BCTt) [1] and the comptent CT test (cCTt) [2] To ...

Zenodo2022

Ecological momentary assessment of emotional processing: An exploratory analysis comparing daily life and a psychotherapy analogue session

Mehdi Gholam

Background: Emotional processing has been studied in psychotherapy as a state-dependent, sequential process of change. So far, no studies have applied this conceptualisation of emotional processing to the assessments of emotion in daily life. This is parti ...

WILEY2022

Construct Validity of Unobtrusive Measures of Organizational Ethical Climates

Christine Choirat

Prior studies have examined the relationship between organizational ethical climates and an array of work-related attitudes and behaviors. However, current research is hampered by the lack of knowledge on how ethical climates relate to organizational outco ...

2021

Predictive Validity of Thin-Slice Nonverbal Behavior from Social Interactions

Laurent Son Nguyen

We present five studies investigating the predictive validity of thin slices of nonverbal behavior (NVB). Predictive validity of thin slices refers to how well behavior slices excerpted from longer video predict other measured variables. Using six NVBs, we ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2019

Navigating the validity tradeoffs of entrepreneurship research experiments: A systematic review and best-practice suggestions

Julia Katharina Binder

Experimental methods provide important advantages for advancing academic understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complex and comingled relationships between some of entrepreneurship's key characteristics pose thorny methodological challenges to entrepr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Detecting trends and further development potential of contemporary façade design for workspaces

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore

Façade design is claimed to fulfil a number of requirements in workplaces, ranging from privacy to safety and from comfort to aesthetics. For future R&D efforts in façade design, identifying the key drivers that should shape contemporary facades in office ...

2019

An assessment of how well we account for intangibles

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Estimates of intangible capital stock are of prime importance for accurate measurement of productivity growth. Aggregate intangible capital stock is usually estimated using the so-called Corrado-Hulten-Sichel (CHS) new growth accounting framework. Yet this ...

Oxford University Press2017

Heightened clinical utility of smartphone versus body-worn inertial system for shoulder function B-B score

Kamiar Aminian, Alain Farron, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli, Cyntia Duc

The B-B Score is a straightforward kinematic shoulder function score including only two movements (hand to the Back + lift hand as to change a Bulb) that demonstrated sound measurement properties for patients for various shoulder pathologies. However, the ...

2017

Reliability and validity of the inertial sensor-based Timed "Up and Go" test in individuals affected by stroke

Kamiar Aminian, Fabien Massé

The instrumented Timed "Up and Go" test (iTUG) has the potential for playing an important role in providing clinically useful information regarding an individual's balance and mobility that cannot be derived from the original single-outcome Timed "Up and G ...

Rehibilitation Research & Development Service / Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs2016

Physical Behavior in Older Persons during Daily Life: Insights from Instrumented Shoes

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Activity level and gait parameters during daily life are important indicators for clinicians because they can provide critical insights into modifications of mobility and function over time. Wearable activity monitoring has been gaining momentum in daily l ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Validity Tests of Superposition Principle Based on Forward Model for Electromagnetic Induction Scattering

Yves Perriard, Christian Köchli, Chafic Abu Antoun

Low-frequency electromagnetic scattering from conductive and permeable bodies is the main principle of detection devices. To be able to classify the objects in the base material, a fast forward model based on the dipolar approximation was developed and ver ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Inter-laboratory trial of a standardized sediment contact test with the aquatic plant Myriophyllum aquaticum (ISO 16191)

A whole-sediment toxicity test with Myriophyllum aquaticum has been developed by the German Federal Institute of Hydrology and standardized within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO; ISO 16191). An international ring-test was performed ...

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Press2014

Hire Me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Laurent Son Nguyen

Understanding the basis on which recruiters form hirability impressions for a job applicant is a key issue in organizational psychology and can be addressed as a social computing problem. We approach the problem from a face-to-face, nonverbal perspective w ...

2014

Model misspecification in peaks over threshold analysis

Anthony Christopher Davison, Mária Süveges

Classical peaks over threshold analysis is widely used for statistical modeling of sample extremes, and can be supplemented by a model for the sizes of clusters of exceedances. Under mild conditions a compound Poisson process model allows the estimation of ...

2010

Evaluation of a mixed approach combining stationary and wearable systems to monitor gait over long distance

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Xavier Crevoisier

Thanks to decades of research, gait analysis has become an efficient tool. However, mainly due to the price of the motion capture systems, standard gait laboratories have the capability to measure only a few consecutive steps of ground walking. Recently, w ...

Elsevier2010