Validity Of Measurement Techniques Research Articles

Topography measurement methods evaluation for entire bending-fatigued fracture surfaces of specimens obtained by explosive welding

In this paper, the methods of compensation of differences in the results of entire bending-fatigued fracture surface topographies were presented. The roughness evaluation was performed with a focus variation microscope and confocal surface topography measurement techniques. The differences in the ISO 25178 roughness parameters were investigated and procedures for their compensation were studied. It was found that various types of optical measurements can cause differences in the errors occurring in the measurement process, such as outliers, and noise. The reduction of differences in the various optical roughness measurements can be attained when measurement errors are compensated. For this study, the applications of general procedures available in commercial software can be suitable for improvements of the roughness measurement results, such as raw data thresholding technique, digital filtering (S-filter), power spectral density, and autocorrelation function analyses. The validation of measurement techniques was proposed for areal and profile studies, including analysis of differences in the calculation areal ISO 25178 roughness parameters.

Reflective and Non-conscious Responses to Exercise Images.

Images portraying exercise are commonly used to promote exercise behavior and to measure automatic associations of exercise (e.g., via implicit association tests). The effectiveness of these promotion efforts and the validity of measurement techniques partially rely on the untested assumption that the images being used are perceived by the general public as portrayals of exercise that is pleasant and motivating. The aim of this study was to investigate how content of images impacted people's automatic and reflective evaluations of exercise images. Participants (N = 90) completed a response time categorization task (similar to the implicit association test) to capture how automatically people perceived each image as relevant to Exercise or Not exercise. Participants also self-reported their evaluations of the images using visual analog scales with the anchors: Exercise/Not exercise, Does not motivate me to exercise/Motivates me to exercise, Pleasant/Unpleasant, and Energizing/Deactivating. People tended to more strongly automatically associate images with exercise if the images were of an outdoor setting, presented sport (as opposed to active labor or gym-based) activities, and included young (as opposed to middle-aged) adults. People tended to reflectively find images of young adults more motivating and relevant to exercise than images of older adults. The content of exercise images is an often overlooked source of systematic variability that may impact measurement validity and intervention effectiveness.

Variable behavior in pycnocline mixing over shelf seas

AbstractVertical mixing, driven by turbulence in the ocean, underpins many of the critical interactions that allow life on earth to flourish since vertical buoyancy flux maintains global overturning circulation and vertical nutrient fluxes are critical to primary production. Prediction of the ocean system is therefore dependent on accurate simulation of turbulent processes that, by their very nature, are chaotic. A growing evidence base exists that provides insight into these complex processes and permits investigation of turbulence relative to better determined, and therefore predictable, parameters. Here we examine three time series of the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy (ε) in “stability space”. We reveal an ordered structure within the mean distribution of ε that compares well to a variety of proposed models of oceanic turbulence. The requirement for differing site‐specific tuning and only partial success however raises questions over “missing physics” within such models and the validity of measurement techniques.

Simulation of atomic and ionic absorption and emission spectra for thermal plasma diagnostics: application to a volatilisation study in a plasma jet

Simulation of atomic emission and absorption spectra has been carried out in order to improve and to check the validity of measurement techniques and data processing for plasma diagnostic. Doppler, Van der Waals, Stark and instrumental broadenings and shifts have been taken into account. The effect of self-absorption has also been considered. The input parameters are pressure, temperature, electron density, and emitting species number density. In such calculations data needed for the determination of collisional and Stark broadenings are not always available. An empirical method of data evaluation is described and discussed. The limits and the precision of this modelling are discussed with experimental examples. This simulation method has been applied to the diagnostic of volatilisation phenomena in thermal plasma spraying processes. It has been used to assist in the choice of diagnostic lines, instrumental parameters and data processing parameters. It has also been used to evaluate the accuracy of the temperature and density distributions calculated from spectroscopic measurements.