research methodologymathematical modellingmeasurementPh. D. studiesTechnoscience is a result of integration of technology with empirical sciences, including not only physical sciences, but also life sciences, social sciences and cognitive sciences. Further development of technoscience is unthinkable without ...
Aiming at creating a dynamic between elaboration, realization, and validation by means of iterative cycles of experimentation, Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) projects have been rapidly confronted to the lack of systematic experimental research methodology. Moreover, the "validation by...
The discussion of this extensive topic, which is of especially great interest for the methodology of measurement in psychology and sociology, will be based on a critical analysis of contemporary literature. This analysis will then allow us to estimate which concepts ought to be rejected and which ...
Heterogeneity is an important concept in psychiatric research and science more broadly. It negatively impacts effect size estimates under case–control paradigms, and it exposes important flaws in our existing categorical nosology. Yet, our field has no precise definition of heterogeneity proper. We ten...
Table 6.2. A six-item binary scale for measuring political activism Likert scale. Designed by Rensis Likert, this is a very popular rating scale for measuring ordinal data in social science research. This scale includes Likert items that are simply-worded statements to which respondents can indic...
People’s general assessment of robots was measured with three items that were previously used in robot acceptance research24. The items were answered on a four-point scale (Cronbach’s α = 0.77,M = 3.24,SD = 0.57; e.g., “Robots are a good thing for societies because th...
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Scales for subjective measurement of sleep quality are widely used in research and clinical practice, with common scales including the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) [24], the Sleep Quality Scale [25], the Sleep Quality Index [26], and the Sleep Satisfaction Tool [27]. In China, ...
Measurement杂志是一本工程技术-工程:综合应用杂志。是一本享有盛誉的顶级学术杂志,由Elsevier出版,该期刊创刊于1983年,出版周期为Bimonthly,始终保持着高质量和高水平的学术内容。在中科院分区表2023年12月升级版中,被归类为大类学科分区2区,显示出其卓越的学术水平
Large-scale atmospheric transport and removal processes control the spatial distribution and lifetime of the aerosol in the stratosphere. Aerosol from tropical eruptions tends to spread into both hemispheres with preferential transport toward the winter hemisphere (e.g., Hitchman et al., 1994), ...