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Substance Use and Sex Index version 2 (SUSI‐2): Validation of a brief questionnaire for the measurement of behaviours associated with transmission of blood borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims This study sought to validate a community‐acceptable Substance Use & Sex Index (SUSI) for use in substance use intervention research. SUSI aims to measure behaviours associated with the transmission of blood‐borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) among people who use substances and incorporate contemporary sexual ...
Brendan Clifford, Raimondo Bruno, Liam Acheson, Michael E. Cecilio, Krista J. Siefried, Jack Freestone, Vincent J. Cornelisse, Brendan Crozier, Nicky Bath, Nadine Ezard   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of E-Assessment Instruments for Assessing Metacognition Skills of Students in The Research Methodology Course

Yupa: Historical Studies Journal
This research is focused on the creation of a valid and dependable tool designed for the assessment of students' metacognitive abilities within the context of the Research Methodology course.
Nurnaningsih Nurnaningsih, Amrin Amrin
doaj   +1 more source

H‐2A Adverse Effect Wage Rates and U.S. farm wages

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently proposed legislation regarding farm labor would impact the minimum wage for workers with H‐2A visas. Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs) are regional minimum wages paid to foreign farmworkers working in the United States under the H‐2A temporary agricultural guest worker program.
Zachariah Rutledge, Marcelo Castillo, Timothy J. Richards, Philip Martin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Dedicated Mixture Model for Clustering Smart Meter Data: Identification and Analysis of Electricity Consumption Behaviors

Energies, 2017
The large amount of data collected by smart meters is a valuable resource that can be used to better understand consumer behavior and optimize electricity consumption in cities.
Fateh Nassim Melzi, Allou Same, Mohamed Haykel Zayani, Latifa Oukhellou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Education matters: the emergence of social media and scepticism towards science

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses General Social Survey (United States) data and provides evidence that the advent of Facebook and other social media platforms has widened the gap in scepticism towards science between low‐educated Americans and their more highly educated counterparts.
Gianluca Cerruti
wiley   +1 more source

Calculation of fuel burnup and radionuclide inventory for the HEU and potential LEU fuels in the IRT research reactor

Results in Physics, 2018
The study of core conversion of the IRT research reactor from the HEU to LEU fuels has been conducted in this paper. Fuel burnup, buildup of actinides and fission product inventory for the IRT research reactor with UO2-Al dispersion fuel for the various ...
Saadou Aldawahrah, S. Dawahra, K. Khattab, G. Saba, M. Boush   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Convective heat transfer measurements from a NACA 0012 airfoil in flight and in the NASA Lewis Icing Research Tunnel [PDF]

Local heat transfer coefficients were measured on a smooth and roughened NACA 0012 airfoil. Heat transfer measurements on the 0.533 m chord airfoil were made both in flight on the NASA Lewis Twin Otter Icing Research Aircraft and in the NASA Lewis Icing ...
Dewitt, Kenneth J., Poinsatte, Philip E., Vanfossen, G. James   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Marker effects and examination reliability: a comparative exploration from the perspectives of generalizability theory, Rasch modelling and multilevel modelling [PDF]

, 2013
This study looked at how three different analysis methods could help us to understand rater effects on exam reliability. The techniques we looked at were: generalizability theory (G-theory) item response theory (IRT): in particular the Many-Facets ...
Baird, Jo-Anne, Hayes, Malcolm, Johnson, Rod, Johnson, Sandra, Lamprianou, Iasonas   +4 more
core  

Arianna's Palette: A Diagnostic Study of the Painting Walls of the Domus of Arianna in Pompeii

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The House of Arianna, also known as the House of Colored Capitals, represents, with its 1700 m2 of floor space, one of the most majestic examples of a residence within the Pompeii archaeological site. The research developed within the project “Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society—CHANGES” reports the outcomes of the ...
Maria Verde, Alberto De Bonis, Claudia Di Benedetto, Diego Di Martire, Ersilia Fiore, Francesco Izzo, Renata Picone, Leopoldo Repola, Lia Romano, Vincenzo Morra   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating dynamics in attentive and inattentive responding together with their contextual correlates using a novel mixture IRT model for intensive longitudinal data

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In ecological momentary assessment (EMA), respondents answer brief questionnaires about their current behaviours or experiences several times per day across multiple days. The frequent measurement enables a thorough grasp of the dynamics inherent in psychological constructs, but it also increases respondent burden.
Leonie V. D. E. Vogelsmeier, Irina Uglanova, Manuel T. Rein, Esther Ulitzsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source