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A Comprehensive Model for Evaluating Telemedicine

2004
Increasingly, telecommunications and advanced information technologies are being used for a variety of activities: clinical, administrative, and education/research. These activities are undertaken with the expectation that health care delivery will be improved.
Lanis L, Hicks, Keith E, Boles
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Percutaneous Tracheostomy: A Comprehensive Evaluation

Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology, 1999
Percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) is an ancient procedure that has recently attracted increasing interest. While there are numerous publications in the literature, there remains confusion due to the large variety of techniques and instruments with which it has been performed and the wide disparity in clinical outcome.
Moe KS, Stoeckli SJ, Schmid S, Weymuller EA   +3 more
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Radial keratotomy: A comprehensive evaluation

Documenta Ophthalmologica, 1984
A prospective clinical investigation of radial keratotomy employing the Fyodorov method and instrumentation was initiated in March, 1980. The results of the first 147 eyes undergoing this surgical procedure for the reduction or elimination of myopia were analyzed one year following surgery.
A C, Neumann, R H, Osher, R E, Fenzl
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An Improvement of Comprehensive Evaluation Model

2011 Seventh International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, 2011
In this paper, we introduce standardized fuzzy set and normalized fuzzy set, propose a novel method to improve the comprehensive evaluation model that shall not lead to the increasing of computation and give some steps in detail. Finally, we use four numerical examples to illustrate our proposed model reasonable and point out that our proposed method ...
Wenyi Zeng, Shuang Feng
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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tinnitus Apps

American Journal of Audiology, 2019
Purpose The use of mobile phones is on the rise worldwide. Many people who experience tinnitus often turn to the Internet and applications (apps) on their smartphones to acquire information on tinnitus and solutions to “cure” tinnitus. The aim of this study was to evaluate and summarize features offered by tinnitus-related apps
Aniruddha K, Deshpande, Tova, Shimunova
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A comprehensive typology for program evaluation

Evaluation Practice, 1996
Chen begins his discussion by challenging the basic formative/ summative dichotomy introduced by Scriven, arguing that it has been confusing. He analyzes Scriven's 1991 paper, "Beyond ..." which, he feels, clarifies some of the prior confusions, but creates others.
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Evaluation to Enterprises’ Comprehensive Strength of Patent Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation

Advanced Materials Research, 2014
The enterprise’s comprehensive strength of patent is a key factor to measure its core competitiveness. It is of strategic significance for an enterprise to analyze and evaluate objectively its comprehensive strength of patent. On the basis of an amount of domestic and foreign literature survey, case study and expert consultation, according to the 4 ...
Zhi Jin Xu, Yan Kui Song
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Evaluating the comprehension of ambient displays

CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004
We introduce an evaluation framework for ambient displays, with three levels of comprehension: that data is visualized; what is visualized; and how it is visualized.
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Comprehensive Evaluation of a Thorotrast Patient

Health Physics, 1992
For several decades, thousands of people received Thorotrast during the course of angiography and other radiologic procedures. Eventually, as the hazards of this radioactive, radiographic contrast agent became apparent, research was initiated to further evaluate its associated adverse effects. In 1988 and 1989, Charles W. Mays, together with colleagues
L B, Travis, R L, Kathren, D, Mays, C W, Mays   +3 more
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Antipattern Comprehension: An Empirical Evaluation

2016
Comprehension of justifications is known to be difficult for even experienced ontology engineers, and much more so for other stakeholders. In this paper, we present two methods for displaying justifications using concept diagrams: using multiple concept diagrams to represent the justification (one diagram for each axiom); and using a merged concept ...
Tie Hou, Peter Chapman, Andrew Blake 0002   +2 more
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