Quest For Reliability Research Articles

Intercept evidence from foreign language communications: Reliability and minimum standards in the interests of justice.

This paper explores the role of Intercept Interpreters/Translators (IITs) in law enforcement communication surveillance efforts. It focuses on the production and reliability of Translated Intercept Records (TIR), which are comprehensive written records in the target language that may be produced for intelligence purposes or for use in court as Translated Intercept Evidence (TIE). The paper underscores the critical importance of reliable TIR for both evidentiary use and operational decision-making. The authors emphasise the need to establish minimal standards in the quest for reliability and dispel the misconception that literal translations fulfil evidentiary requirements. The standards proposed in this paper aim to minimise interpretation errors to enhance the overall effectiveness of investigations and safeguard the interests of justice. The paper concludes by highlighting the need to align judicial expectations with sound translation practices.

Effect of Compliance with Valuation Standards and Awareness on Property Value Certification among Estate Surveying Firms in Abuja, Nigeria

The quest for reliability and consistency in real estate valuations services prompted the use of valuation standards. The extent of compliance with this valuations standards by property appraisers is a matter due for worthy consideration. This study aims to examine the effect awareness of valuation standards and compliance has on property value certification. The target population comprises registered Estate Surveying firms who are in private practice in Abuja, Nigeria. The sampling frame is 171 registered firm. The sample size of 118 was adopted. The reliability of the study data was measured using Cronbach’s Alpha test which showed that valuers’ awareness and compliance to valuation standards, and property value certification variables with 5, 3, and 7 measuring constructs respectively, were reliable with value above 0.70. The findings of the study show that awareness has a mean score of 3.4392 which is high with the 5-point likert scale, likewise, appraisers’ level of compliance is high, with a mean score of 3.7017, also property value certification showed a mean value of 3.9766. In examining the effect of valuation awareness and compliance on Property value certification multiple regression analysis was employed and the variables explained 57.4% of the model; which implies that awareness and compliance were responsible for 57.4% of the variation in property value certification. The effect of awareness and compliance on the certification of property values; the ANOVA analysis showed that awareness and compliance has a significant positive effect on property value certification, while awareness to valuation standards has a 26.9% effect, compliance with standards has a higher effect of 57.6%. Therefore the study concludes that while awareness and compliance both have significant positive effect on property value certification, compliance to valuation standards has a greater effect on real estate property value certification.

Aerospace Needs, Microelectronics, and the Quest for Reliability: 1962–1975 [Scanning Our Past

This computer system is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communications systems, or air traffic control machines, or for any other uses where the failure of the computer system could lead to death, personal injury, or severe environmental damage.—Apple Computer, Inc., Macbook Users Guide , 2006, p. 109.

The quest for reliability: A case study

This article describes a project—the implementation of an Ada symbolic debugger—and the assurance activities involved in the project. We discuss the error data collected during the project and the statistical analysis performed to draw some conclusions on which relationships affect the error density of a component. In brief, we found that if we keep track of all errors, related changes, and tests throughout the life cycle, it is possible to prevent the corruption of earlier corrections and changes. Furthermore, neither reuse nor unit testing have any effect on error density. The main effect is simplicity, through high maintainability and low coupling to large, complex external libraries.

The concept of borderline conditions: a critical comment on validity issues.

It is pointed out that many published empirical studies on the issue of borderline conditions suffer from methodological shortcomings due to the prevailing empiricist simplification of research. Attention is drawn to the fact that the current psychiatric research in classification issues is dominated by an exaggerated quest for reliability at the expense of concern with validity issues. Concepts of operational criteria, polythetic-prototypic systems, and epistemic peculiarities of psychiatric, clinical typification are briefly exposed. It is suggested that future scientific progress in the area of personality research must take into account these general methodological considerations: repotentiate clinical-phenomenological observation, include prototypical approaches, extend studied samples with subjects drawn from the general population and import insights from personality trait research in normal psychology. Some of the claims of Gunderson and Torgersen (this volume) are discussed.