It is not a property of the instrument, itself, but of the instrument when administered to a particular sample under certain conditions, e.g., a reliable measurement of adults in the United States may not be reliable when applied to adults in Canada. Reliability can be assessed by:•...
Moreover, quality gains provide confidence that they are not affected by accounting manipulations, that the performance presented is real and can be maintained in the future. The quality of earnings can be assessed by the size of the commitments defined as the difference between profit and cash ...
An example is presented to show how the serviceability performance for braced excavation problems can be assessed based on the system reliability index.doi:10.1080/17499510701577207Kyung Park, JunTanner Blackburn, JGardoni, PaoloTaylor & Francis GroupGeorisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for ...
pacificum, clearly evident in the mean number of read counts, can be hardly attributed only to the 18S rDNA gene copy number, since the mean value assessed for this species was close to the taxa giving rise to false negatives. However, the nature of rDNA gene copy number variation can be...
GOAL OF THIS STUDY: Knowledge about the reliability of sexual data is important to decide whether these measures of sexual behavior can be used in epidemiologic studies of sexually transmitted diseases. STUDY DESIGN: In 288 attendees, degree of agreement was assessed in responses to an identical ...
The prior distribution maps to a fault register and relates directly to a set of potential engineering modifications.The likely impact of each task can be assessed using the point process model. An integer programming approach is used to sequence and schedule tasks under the constraint that ...
This takes into consideration the performance of a micro-device and its reliability assessed by means of uncertainty analysis. The procedure assumes that, for each checked design configuration, the assessment of uncertainty propagation is performed with the meta-modeling technique. The described procedure...
Our results align with a previous meta-analysis conducted by Cooper et al. [32], which assessed the capabilities to determine ALN metastasis by PET/CT and MRI and other studies that recognized PET/CT and MRI as important tools in breast cancer staging nowadays [33,34,35,36,37,38,39]. ...
't apply to the server example; it's more likely to apply to a part such as a lightbulb that would be replaced rather than repaired. It's calculated by adding the total operating time before failure of several lightbulbs and dividing that total by the number of lightbulbs being assessed....
It should additionally provide a framework for the practical assessment of existing structures, as well as a method by which to compare the assessed reliability to target levels of reliability that are appropriate to the structure. Finally, the process of economic cost optimisation for both new and...