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Background: The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) aims to produce a holistic transformation with creative and critically minded students. However, very little attention has been paid to the development of an instrument to mea...

Background: The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is one of medicine’s most data-rich Internet of Things (IoT) environments, and monitoring digital twins (DTs) that predict clinical events from continuously acquired physiologic streams are a...

Background: The use of digital media in childhood offers both opportunities and risks. Digital stressors—such as excessive screen time, constant availability, information overload, and social media pressures—affect primary school children...

This research aims to conceptualize, develop, and validate a specific instrument for measuring the engagement of followers towards influencers on social media, and more specifically, in this first research, on Instagram. We surveyed (in-depth intervi...

The use of ICT (information communication technology) as an educational resource is becoming more evident in the education systems of most countries, even more so with the COVID-19 crisis. When it comes to disability and education, ICT becomes a tool...

The paper presents research on a system for measuring the parameters of a vehicle in motion and the process of validating it under laboratory conditions. The measurement system uses four inductive-loop (IL) sensors, two slim ILs and two wide ILs. The...

Virtual validation of radar sensor models is becoming increasingly important for the safety validation of Light Detection and Rangings (lidars). Therefore, methods for quantitative comparison of radar measurements in the context of model validation n...

This research presents a validation methodology for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) assessments of rooftop wind regime in urban environments. A case study is carried out at the Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering building at the University o...

Ultrasound examination using the Graf method is widely applied for early detection of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), but intra- and inter-operator variability remains a limitation. This study aimed to quantify operator variability in hip u...

The validation of aeroelastic load models used for load calculations on wind turbines substantially increases the confidence in the accuracy and correctness of these models. In this contribution, we introduce a framework for the validation of these m...

China is the world’s largest importer of logs, possessing the scale to exert significant influence in the international market. This paper uses a fixed-effect variable coefficient Pricing-to-Market panel model to measure China’s market po...

Background: Developer experience should be considered a key factor from the beginning of the use of development platform, but it has not been received much attention in literature. Research Goals: The present study aimed to identify and validate the...

This article presents an empirical comparative assessment of the measurement quality of two instruments commonly used to measure fuzzy characteristics in computer-assisted questionnaires: a graphic scale (a line production scale using a slider bar) a...

Psychosocial working conditions are important determinants of employee health, work ability, and organizational sustainability, yet existing instruments often assess job demands, job resources, psychosocial risks, or well-being outcomes separately. T...

Health care is an essential factor in the social sustainability of the university; therefore, it is a challenge and a responsibility to monitor a safe return to school that ensures the support of the physical and emotional well-being of students. In...

In this research, seven different models to predict leaf area (LA) of loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl) were tested and evaluated. This species was chosen due to the relevant importance of its fruit as an appreciated early summer product and of its...

The Disgust Scale has been designed to measure disgust propensity—the individual ease in experiencing disgust. The present study aimed to explore the validity, reliability, the factor structure, and the measurement invariance of the Greek versi...

Background: Having a valid tool to assess attitudes toward vaccination and identify the concerns that drive vaccine refusal can facilitate population studies and help guide public health interventions. The objective of this study has been to adapt th...

E-learning is increasingly used to support student learning in higher education, facilitating administration of online formative assessments. Although providing diagnostic, actionable feedback is generally more effective, in current practice, feedbac...

The cantilever-enhanced photoacoustic spectrometer is a sensitive instrument developed originally for trace gas measurements and has lately been successfully applied for measuring light-absorbing particles, such as aerosols. The finite inertia of aer...

Contemporary housing design practices in Erbil’s hot–dry climate remain understudied with respect to indoor thermal comfort performance. This study evaluates indoor thermal comfort in traditional and contemporary dwellings in Erbil, Iraq,...

On the basis of the self-centeredness and selflessness model, a new instrument assessing two distinct dimensions of happiness, fluctuating and authentic–durable, was developed. The current research aimed at examining the factor structure of the Itali...

Generative AI (GenAI) adoption in higher education (HE) raises significant ethical concerns. The focus is shifting from rules- or outcomes-based learning environments towards the development of moral character, personality traits, integrity, and prac...

As the treated water from offshore oil and gas production is discharged to the surrounding sea, there is an incentive to improve the performance of the offshore produced water treatment, to reduce the environmental pollutants to the sea. Regulations...

Nonlinear mixed-effects models (NLMMs) provide a flexible framework for modeling repeated-measures trajectories. However, how best to forecast future observations, especially at ages well beyond those represented in the data, remains relatively under...

The observed ozone layer depletion is influenced by continuous anthropogenic activity. This fact enforced the regular ozone monitoring globally. Information on spatial-temporal variations in total ozone columns (TOCs) derived by various observational...

It is suggested that nutrient densities are less affected by measurement errors than absolute intake estimates of dietary exposure. We compared the validity of absolute intakes and densities of protein (kJ from protein/total energy (kJ)), potassium,...

When creating a simulation model to assess the performance of buildings, there is usually a lack of feedback information. Only in the case of measurements of a real building is a direct comparison of the measured values and simulated results possible...

Forecasting and modeling building energy profiles require tools able to discover patterns within large amounts of collected information. Clustering is the main technique used to partition data into groups based on internal and a priori unknown scheme...

Educational assessment relies on well-constructed test items to measure student learning accurately, yet traditional item development is time-consuming and demands specialized psychometric expertise. Automatic item generation (AIG) offers template-ba...

The realistic simulation of the dynamic responses of a moving articulated vehicle has attracted considerable attention in various disciplines, with the identification of the vehicle model being the prerequisite. To this end, a double-sensor hump cali...

This article presents the development and validation of a new instrument measuring social, cultural, and behavioral factors influencing exposure to occupational zoonoses in agricultural settings. The Social Ecological Model (SEM) and the Standards fo...

Assessing body image efficiently requires brief, psychometrically sound instruments. This study evaluated the 15-item short-form Appearance Scales of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ-AS15) to determine its structural vali...

Accurate electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) characterization of low-impedance (<1 mΩ) lithium-ion battery cells used in electric vehicles is challenging because resistance and inductance in the measurement pathway can be comparable...

Numerical modeling is the approach used most often for studying and optimizing the molten steel flow in a continuous casting mold. The selection of the physical model might very much influence such studies. Hence, it is paramount to choose a proper m...

Ventilated façades are among the existing measures to reduce the energy demand in buildings. The combination of this passive heating and cooling strategy with photovoltaics (PV) can drive new buildings towards the current European targets for near or...

Ventilated façades are among the existing measures to reduce the energy demand in buildings. The combination of this passive heating and cooling strategy with photovoltaics (PV) can drive new buildings towards the current European targets near...

Reducing energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings is an important research topic. Thermally activated building systems are a promising technology for significantly reducing energy consumption. The high thermal inertia, large surface...

This research is focused on the well-known notion of workplace motivation known as psychological empowerment and how this may be used regarding sustainability. This research aimed to use Rasch and confirmatory factor analyses to examine the multidime...

Noise coming from road traffic represents a major contributor to the high levels of noise to which people are continuously exposed—especially in urban areas—throughout all of Europe. Since it represents a very detrimental pollutant, the a...

This study aims to assess the characteristics and uncertainty of Integrated Multisatellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) (IMERG) Level 3 rainfall estimates and to improve those estimates using an error model over the central A...

Nowadays, different approaches for CO₂ anthropogenic emission estimation are applied to control agreements on greenhouse gas reduction. Some methods are based on the inverse modelling of emissions using various measurements and the results of numeric...

This research aims to develop an instrument of knowledge and skills called the Scientific Inquiry Literacy Instrument (SILI). Instrument measurement analysis uses the Rasch model by utilizing the Winsteps application. This research uses mixed methods...

We conducted three independent studies to support the Spanish version of the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI). The first study consisted of translating and pre-testing on a sample of 125 college students. The second consisted of testing the EA...

The scientific study of emotion remains fraught with conceptual ambiguity, methodological limitations, and epistemological blind spots. This theoretical paper argues that existing paradigms frequently capture synthetic rather than natural emotional s...

A pyroelectric temperature sensor for measuring human body temperature with increased accuracy and speed for application in mobile robotic systems has been developed. This pyroelectric temperature sensor for measuring human body temperature is intend...

This study aimed to identify the structural relationships of corporate governance within an accredited public university, as its assessment remains unexplored and its polysemic nature gives rise to disagreements over measurement criteria. Moreover, n...

We examine the measurement of country-level institutions in international accounting research. Despite a large body of literature linking national institutions to financial reporting outcomes, the construct validity and reliability of the institution...

The assessment of road traffic noise is very important for the health of people living in urban areas. Noise is usually assessed by field measurements, and predictive models play an important role when experimental data are not available. Nevertheles...

Performance management systems (PMSs) in private secondary education are vital, and although several tried and tested public sector performance measurement models exist, limited private secondary school performance measurement models exist in South A...