WHAT IS AN "OBJECTIVE" TEST?

Abstract Static surface electromyography can provide an objective test of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar posterior areas that needs to be performed within a clear clinical or ergonomic context. It is of great help in postural assessment in the standing position in people with healthy backs or postural dysfunctions. The author has devised a protocol that allows statistically based treatment and more valid clinical interpretation. Most often, static surface electromyography is a necessary precursor to dynamic surface electromyography of any area of clinical concern. When appropriate, neuromuscular reeducation with surface electromyography biofeedback can be performed to improve resting tonus dysfunctions observed on the static surface electromyography testing.

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Twin Resemblances in Creativity and in Esthetic and Emotional Expression

Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae ◽

10.1017/s0001566000014148 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 213-217 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Frank Barron ◽

Paolo Parisi

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Young Adult ◽

Emotional Expression ◽

Halo Effect ◽

Objective Test ◽

Male And Female ◽

Trait Rating ◽

Standard List

Three sources of observation relevant to the measurement of individual differences in emotional and esthetic expressiveness were employed to study their heritability by application to a sample of some 60 pairs of young adult like-sexed twins, approximately evenly divided between male and female and MZ and DZ pairs. The sources of observation were objective test performances, trait ascription using a standard list of adjectives, and videotaped enactments of mood and esthetic performances. Perceptual and esthetic abilities do appear to have substantial heritability, although esthetic preferences do not. Heritability is also indicated for such adjectives as artistic, inventive, original, and independent. Ratings of the videotape performances yielded somewhat ambiguous results, due to the presence of a marked halo effect; the most likely interpretation congruent with earlier results is that greater MZ twin resemblances in social extroversion generated greater resemblances in the videotape situation on such other trait-rating variables as creativity, naturalness, and dominance.

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Divide-and-conquer memetic algorithm for online multi-objective test paper generation

Memetic Computing ◽

10.1007/s12293-012-0077-z ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 33-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Minh Luan Nguyen ◽

Siu Cheung Hui ◽

Alvis C. M. Fong

Keyword(s):

Memetic Algorithm ◽

Divide And Conquer ◽

Objective Test ◽

Test Paper ◽

Multi Objective

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On the diversity and robustness of parameterised multi-objective test suites

Applied Soft Computing ◽

10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107613 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107613

Author(s):

Estefania Yap ◽

Mario Andrés Muñoz ◽

Kate Smith-Miles

Keyword(s):

Objective Test ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Test Suites

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