University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Examples of employee performance measurement include a variety of methods employers use based on the employee's job category, employee-supervisor relationship and workplace culture. They range from ...

Asking people how much money they would accept to experience pain again can provide a more accurate and comparable measure of ...

Two methods of constructing equal-interval scales for educational achievement are discussed: Thurstone's absolute scaling method and Item Response Theory (IRT). Alternative criteria for choosing a ...

The number on the scale does not tell the whole story. Your body weight does not account for your body fat, muscle mass and bone density, and will not tell how much of it is due to water retention or ...

The methodological development of a scale to measure attitudes toward physicians and primary medical care, and efforts to ascertain its reliability and validity have been reported previously. As a ...

How do you evaluate a movie? Opposing IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, I believe there can’t be a unifying objective scale to measure films on. That’s because everyone has their own way of evaluation and ...

Over five years after the release of the Body Cardio (and one flirtation with Nokia later), French company Withings has released its far most technologically advanced connected scale yet, the Body ...

A University of South Florida researcher and a team from the Netherlands are proposing a new way to measure hurricane ...

Physicists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, ...