The final score was calculated as a Likert-scale, averaging the items (after inverting negative items) and transforming it to a scale of 0 100 (no anxiety to maximum anxiety).
The functional assessments were done with the (inverted) Oxford 12-item knee questionnaire, the Hospital for Special Surgery knee score (HSS), the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities arthritis index (WOMAC), and the KSS.
The precise order of washing, sorting, folding and returning clothes to queues does not matter so long as all of the clothes are washed and folded at once, or the dirty-laundry and unfolded-clothes piles are periodically inverted to retrieve items lingering at the bottom of stacks.
The scorings from the last four items were inverted before calculating the sum-score, thus ranging from 17-68.
The scores of items 4, 8, 12 and 16 are inverted and the total score is the sum of the items, which ranges from 17to6868 points.
A new fuzzy controller with 6 input items and 1 output item for stabilizing a parallel-type double inverted pendulum system is presented based on the single input rule modules (SIRMs) dynamically connected fuzzy inference model.
During data analysis, we inverted raw scores on the reverse keyed items.
The questionnaire contained nine positively formulated items, whose scores had to be inverted prior to data analysis, so that high total scores for this questionnaire indicated high intensity of maladaptive schemas.
The food neophilia variable was constructed using the sum of the scores that consumers had given to each scale, after having inverted the direction of the neophobia scores of the items in order to make them uniform.
