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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Withdrawal Aversion and the Equivalence Test. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Bioeth, 2019
If a doctor is trying to decide whether or not to provide a medical treatment, does it matter ethically whether that treatment has already been started? Health professionals sometimes find it harder to stop a treatment (withdraw) than to refrain from starting the treatment (withhold). But does that feeling correspond to an ethical difference?
Wilkinson D, Butcherine E, Savulescu J.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Observation equivalence as a testing equivalence

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 1987
A notion of testing is developed for transition systems with divergence. The forms of testing include traces, refusals, copying and global testing. Both denotational and operational formulations of testing are given. The equivalence based on this notion of testing is shown to coincide with observation equivalence.
Samson Abramsky
exaly   +4 more sources

Equity in assessment: an examination of multiple-choice question tests [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Education
Background Equity and fairness are essential elements of acceptability, one of the Ottawa Criteria for good evaluation. The similarity of results from multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests developed under the same test blueprint for comparable groups can ...
Serap Konakcı
doaj   +2 more sources

Testing equivalence of clustering [PDF]

open access: yesThe Annals of Statistics, 2022
In this paper, we test whether two datasets share a common clustering structure. As a leading example, we focus on comparing clustering structures in two independent random samples from two mixtures of multivariate normal distributions. Mean parameters of these normal distributions are treated as potentially unknown nuisance parameters and are allowed ...
Gao, Chao, Ma, Zongming
openaire   +3 more sources

A New Approach to the Quality Control of Slope and Aspect Classes Derived from Digital Elevation Models

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
The usefulness of the parameters (e.g., slope, aspect) derived from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is limited by its accuracy. In this paper, a thematic-like quality control (class-based) of aspect and slope classes is proposed.
M. V. Alba-Fernández   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital emergency suitability protocol: translation and adaptation to the Brazilian culture [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, 2022
Objective Translate and culturally adapt the Hospital Emergency Suitability Protocol (HESP) to Brazilian Portuguese. Method Methodological study, developed from 2019 to 2021, in an emergency hospital, and which followed the stages of translation ...
Rouslanny Kelly Cipriano de Oliveira   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Parsimonious Generalised Height-Diameter Model for Scots Pine Plantations in Bulgaria: a Pragmatic Approach

open access: yesSouth-East European Forestry, 2022
Considering the state-of-the-art of forest inventory in Bulgaria, our investigation pursued development of a parsimonious generalised height-diameter model for the Scots pine plantations in the country. A number of 2-, 3- and 4-predictor candidate models
Tatiana Vassileva Stankova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing statistical similarity in dietary intakes of women of reproductive age in Bangladesh

open access: yesMaternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Women of reproductive age (WRA) need adequate nutrient intakes to sustain a healthy pregnancy, support fetal growth, and breastfeed after childbirth. However, data on women's dietary intake in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are limited, and ...
Gargi Wable Grandner   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing equivalences for processes [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 1983
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De Nicola, Rocco, Hennessy, Matthew
openaire   +5 more sources

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