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Validation of expert assessment of occupational exposures

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2003
AbstractBackgroundAssessment by experts may be the best method available for retrospective occupational exposure measurement in community‐based studies. This study was undertaken to examine the validity of occupational exposure assessment by comparing the ratings of experienced raters with previously recorded industrial hygiene measurements.MethodsWe ...
Fritschi, Lin, Nadon, Louise, Benke, Geza, Lakhani, Ramzan, Latreille, Benoît, Parent, Marie-Élise, Siemiatycki, Jack   +6 more
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LEG Risk Assessments: Experts Disagree

1983
One of the most challenging problems in decisions concerning the deployment of novel, large-scale technologies is the assessment of the risk to the surrounding populations. In particular cases, such as nuclear reactors or liquefied energy gas (LEG) facilities, the political process involved may tend to focus on one particular form of that risk: the ...
Kunreuther, H.C., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Lathrop, J., Atz, H., Macgill, S., Mandl, C., Schwarz, M., Thompson, M.   +7 more
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Expert Assessment of Synonymic Rows in RuWordNet

2020
This article explores the principles of synsets in the RuWordNet thesaurus and synonyms in the classical dictionaries of Russian synonyms (N = 10) to identify discrepancies and improve the principles of organising synsets in RuWordNet. The relevance of the study is determined by the demand for WordNet resources in natural language processing tasks. The
Valery D. Solovyev, Gulnara Gimaletdinova, Liliia Khalitova, Liliya Usmanova   +3 more
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An expert system for structure damage assessment

Pattern Recognition Letters, 1984
An expert system called Sperill-II is introduced for the damage assessment of existing structures using the knowledge of experienced structural engineers. Fuzzy sets and Dempster and Shafer's theory are used in this inexact inference method.
H. Ogawa, King-Sun Fu, James T. P. Yao
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[Error in expert assessment].

Zeitschrift fur Rechtsmedizin. Journal of legal medicine, 1989
On the basis of the statutory code of physicians' duties in Poland, the authors discuss a new category of professional error, namely "error in expert assessment." Expert assessment comprises: Issue of certificates stating temporary inability to work (L-4 forms); Issue of certificates allocating patients to appropriate disability categories; Issue of ...
Z, Marek, E, Baran
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Participation of experts and non‐experts in a sustainability assessment of mobility

Environmental Policy and Governance, 2009
AbstractThe complexity, ambiguity and subjectivity that surround persistent problems of unsustainability, such as mobility, highlight the importance of stakeholder engagement in both knowledge production and policy development. This paper reports on research within the EU‐funded MATISSE project to develop tools and methods for Integrated Sustainability
Lorraine Whitmarsh, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Jill Jäger   +2 more
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Assessing Exposure Misclassification by Expert Assessment in Multicenter Occupational Studies

Epidemiology, 2003
In a multicenter case-control study of lung cancer in central and eastern Europe and in Liverpool, exposure to occupational agents was assessed by teams of local experts. We performed an interteam agreement study to estimate the levels of exposure misclassification and the expected attenuation of the risk estimate.Eight teams of experts and a reference
'T Mannetje, Andrea, Fevotte, Joelle, Fletcher, Tony, Brennan, Paul, Legoza, Joszef, Szeremi, Maria, Paldy, Ana, Brzeznicki, Slawomir, Gromiec, Jan, Ruxanda-Artenie, Carmen, Stanescu-Dumitru, Rodica, Ivanov, Nicolai, Shterengorz, Raphael, Hettychova, Lubica, Krizanova, Daniela, Cassidy, Adrian, Van Tongeren, Martie; id_orcid 0000-0002-1205-1898, Boffetta, Paolo   +17 more
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[The expert assessment of fibromyalgia].

Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie, 2003
Research on fibromyalgia over the last ten years has focused on the broad variety of pathogenetic aspects of a pain amplification syndrome. This emphasizes pain as the leading symptom. The sociomedical implications are obvious and considerable, and therefore fibromyalgia has increasingly become the subject of expert assessments.
M, Späth, G, Neeck
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Expert assessment network on soil protection

1993
An expert assessment network on soil protection has been set up in the Netherlands to increase the accessibility and stimulate the use of expertise on soil protection. The network is accessible to governement authorities, industry and consultants. Documentation and expert databases on soil protection will be developed.
Franken, ROG, Ruardi, PA
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Assessing the Credibility of Constitutional Experts

Journal of Law and Courts, 2022
AbstractThis study investigates how citizens assess the credibility of constitutional experts on matters of government authority. Analyses of data from two similarly designed experiments, conducted with national samples, reveal that partisanship, race, and level of education are significant predictors of survey respondents’ willingness to extend ...
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