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Evaluating scales for pairwise comparisons

Annals of Operations Research, 2022
AbstractPairwise comparisons have been a long-standing technique for comparing alternatives/criteria and their role has been pivotal in the development of modern decision-making methods. The evaluation is very often done linguistically. Several scales have been proposed to translate the linguistic evaluation into a quantitative evaluation.
Cavallo B., Ishizaka A.
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2D magnetotelluric inversion based on ResNet

Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 2023
In this study, a deep learning algorithm was applied to two-dimensional magnetotelluric (MT) data inversion. Compared with the traditional linear iterative inversion methods, the MT inversion method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) does not ...
LiAn Xie, Bo Han, Xiangyun Hu, Ningbo Bai   +3 more
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Responsiveness: a reinvention of the wheel?

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2005
Background Since the mid eighties, responsiveness is considered to be a separate property of health status questionnaires distinct from reliability and validity.
Zwinderman Aeilko H, Sprangers Mirjam A, Lindeboom Robert   +2 more
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Country Program Evaluation

, 2022
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s engagement with Bangladesh during the past decade (fiscal year [FY]11–20) and provides lessons to inform the
Independent Evaluation Group
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Meta-regression Analysis of Sex- and Birth Year-Specific Prevalence of HBsAg and Anti-HCV Among Un-diagnosed Japanese: Data From the First-time Blood Donors, Periodical Health Checkup, and the Comprehensive Health Checkup With Lifestyle Education (Ningen Dock)

Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
Background: This study was aimed to precisely estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (anti-HCV) stratified by sex and birth year in Japan.
Tomoyuki Akita, Junko Tanaka, Masahiro Satake, Yingsong Lin, Takashi Wada, Kiminori Kato, Manami Inoue   +6 more
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The Assessments of Music Therapy for Dementia Based on the Cochrane Review

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2022
Background: Research on music therapy for dementia has taken a variety of measures and has been slow to consolidate evidence. Examining the outcomes that are currently being investigated and the measures that have been used can be useful for future ...
Makiko Abe, Ken-ichi Tabei, Masayuki Satoh   +2 more
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The Development and Evaluation of a Compassion Scale [PDF]

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2013
Compassion is the capacity for being moved by suffering of others and wanting to help alleviate it. Compassion may mediate health benefits and hazards of social networks/relationships. The monitoring/management of level of compassion across social networks/relationships may be critical to health benefits’ preservation and social networks ...
David, Martins, Nichole A, Nicholas, Magda, Shaheen, Loretta, Jones, Keith, Norris   +4 more
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Advances and visions in large-scale hydrological modelling : findings from the 11th Workshop on Large-Scale Hydrological Modelling [PDF]

, 2008
Large-scale hydrological modelling has become increasingly wide-spread during the last decade. An annual workshop series on large-scale hydrological modelling has provided, since 1997, a forum to the German-speaking community for discussing recent ...
K. Berkhoff, P. Döll, Fohrer, N., Hagemann, S., Krol, Martinus S., Fohrer, Nicola, Hagemann, Stefan, M. Krol, H. Bormann, D. Gerten, Bormann, H., Berkhoff, Karin, Bormann, Helge, S. Hagemann, Gerten, Dieter, Gerten, D., N. Fohrer, Krol, M., Döll, P., Döll, Petra, Krol, Maarten, Berkhoff, K.   +21 more
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Validity of the QUADAS-2 in Assessing Risk of Bias in Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is of considerable clinical importance. The Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 2 (QUADAS-2) is the current research standard for evaluating the quality of studies that validate diagnostic ...
Alisson Venazzi, Walter Swardfager, Walter Swardfager, Benjamin Lam, Benjamin Lam, Benjamin Lam, José de Oliveira Siqueira, Nathan Herrmann, Nathan Herrmann, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Hugo Cogo-Moreira   +10 more
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Approach Paper

, 2022
In December 2016, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) introduced its latest strategy, IFC 3.0, which aimed to enhance IFC’s development impact by creating “new and stronger markets for private sector
Independent Evaluation Group
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