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Improving the Measurement of Older Adults’ Mobile Device Proficiency: Results and Implications from a Study of Older Adult Smartphone Users

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
Mobile device (e.g., smartphone) proficiency is becoming increasingly necessary to perform important everyday tasks, and inadequate proficiency can prevent groups of individuals such as older adults from obtaining the benefits of mobile computing and ...
Andraz Petrovcic   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and Initial Validation of an Admission Test for Bachelor Psychology Studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2022
Extensive evidence clearly endorses the use of standardized reasoning ability tests and subject-specific knowledge tests as valid and useful tools for admission-restricted study programs.
Luc Watrin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional Cardiopulmonary Criterion of Death is the Only Valid Criterion of Human Death

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2021
In recent time the critique of the whole brain death as the criterion of human death, that was introduced in 1968, has been growing. The paper aims to show in systematically that there are good reasons based on empirical findings combined with Thomistic Christian anthropology to accept the traditional cardiopulmonary criterion as the criterion of human
Volek, P. (Peter), Volek, P. (Peter)
openaire   +4 more sources

Investigating the Appropriateness and Validity of the Academic Motivation Scale-College Version for South African First-Year University Students

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2021
South African universities have one of the lowest graduation rates in the world, especially amongstfirst-year university students. South Africa's first-year university students are taxed with tremendouschallenges.
Adéle Kapp   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Appropriateness Fit and Criterion-Related Validity [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Psychological Measurement, 1993
Unmotivated or suspicious test takers in con current validation studies can cause numerous problems for test users. The effects of these problems, however, have not been carefully examined. This study used item response theory-based appro priateness fit indexes to identify and remove from a validation sample those examinees whose response patterns did
Schmitt, Neal   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Children’s Resilience Markers: Criterion-based validity evidences

open access: yesEstudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Although resilience is a relevant construct, there are no Brazilian instruments available to identify the resilient potential in children. Considering this, an instrument called Children’s Resilience Markers was developed. The study included 500 children
Karina da Silva OLIVEIRA   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validation and standardization of two job- personality questionnaires, DISC Personality Profiler and Hogan Personality Inventory, among personnels of IRANs Refinery and Distribution of Petroleum Products Company [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های علوم شناختی و رفتاری, 2019
Most of the present personality measurement instruments of the country are for judging about the people in clinical contexts and they are not so much applicable in organizational contexts.
Narjes Fasihizadeh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic criterion for crystallized beams [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Small ion crystals in a Paul trap are stable even in the absence of laser cooling. Based on this theoretically and experimentally well-established fact we propose the following diagnostic criterion for establishing the presence of a crystallized beam: Absence of heating following the shut-down of all cooling devices.
arxiv   +1 more source

Experimental demonstration of the criterion for the prepare-and-measure nonclassicality [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
The prepare-and-measure theory is a new type of quantum paradox that reveals the incompatibility between classical theory and quantum mechanics in terms of the dimensionality of physical systems.Just as the Horodecki criterion can determine whether given quantum states are capable of exhibiting Bell nonclassicality, a similar criterion is needed for ...
arxiv  

Identification of functional and diverse circulating cancer‐associated fibroblasts in metastatic castration‐naïve prostate cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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