Alternative Approach to Maximal Exercise Testing and VO2max Prediction in College Students

Abstract

This study identified and analyzed the functions of a nurse working in the school, according to frequency, importance, and complexity. Time spent and time recommended to be spent were calculated. Factors affecting the performance of the functions were explored. The 132 functions were evaluated by 686 nurses in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Tabulations were made as to population, type of schools, and employer. Results indicate that there was a general agreement in the performance of the functions between the groups and that total situations should be considered rather than isolated functions.     

Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure

A nearest neighbour search procedure is described for the automatic correction of misspellings. The procedure involves the replacement of a misspelt word by that word in a dictionary which best matches the misspelling, the degree of match being calculated using a similarity coefficient based on the number of trigrams common to the two words. Experiments with a collection of 1544 misspellings and a dictionary of 64,636 words suggest that the procedure results in the unique identification of the correct spelling for over 75% of the misspellings if the correct form of the word is in the dictionary, and that this figure may be increased to over 90% if near, rather than nearest, neighbours are acceptable.