The journal presents information of direct relevance to the use of assessment measures, including the practical applications
of measurement methods, test development and interpretation practices, and advances in the description and prediction of human behavior.
(While half
of the measurement methods are unknown, I see no reason to assume that the distribution of measurement methods would differ materially from the very large sample for which measurement methods are known.
Improvements in methods and equipment, processes of maintenance and calibration as well as a vastly better understanding
of measurement methods have reduced the measurement errors by an order of magnitude over those years.
Description
of measurement methods for inflammatory biomarkers was provided elsewhere with greater details (14).
Sensitivity
of the measurement method is as high as when using the classical method of rain gauges.
Not exact matches
If you establish clear goals and a
method of measurement, your action plan is more likely to line up with achieving the goal.
Alongside field work the team, which included scientists from the WHRC and Boston University, used 12 years
of satellite imagery, field
measurements and laser remote sensing technology as part
of its
method.
Weingarten cautions against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such
measurements because
of Statistics Canada's criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new
methods and ideas.
Check out these 15 analytics platforms and the unique metrics and
methods of measurement they use to give you the most actionable results.
This persistence is robust to the
method of past performance
measurement, trading frequency and size
of account.
The payment
of GST on insurance premiums has boosted those components
of CPI inflation over the past year; the
method of measurement based on premiums net
of claims means that the recorded price
of insurance in the CPI has increased by more than the GST rate.
The DuPont
method of performance
measurement that was started by the DuPont Corporation in the 1920s.
Overall, the findings tended to confirm our hypothesis: Those who are using paid
methods and finding them effective do so with wide experimentation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, a meaningful budget, and more focus on building an audience as a
measurement of success than their less effective peers.
All
measurement is not
measurement of lengths on a straight line; there is a second most important
measurement of intervals, independent
of such
measurement of lengths, the estimation
of angles, or, what comes to the same thing,
of ratios and arcs
of circles to the whole circumference, In point
of fact, it is by angular
measurement that we habitually estimate temporal intervals, whenever we appeal to a watch or clock, and in the prehistoric past the first rough estimates
of intervals within the natural day must presumably» have been made, independently
of measurement of lengths, by this same
method, with the sky for clock - face.
Science is a
method of dealing logically with
measurement and testable experimentation.
If by the latter we mean the description
of familiar objects
of perception or
of the objects which science defines by its
methods of observation and
measurement, then the reference
of poetic language projects «ahead»
of itself a world in which the reader is invited to dwell, thus finding a more authentic situation in being.
Don't yet know, but do have the age
of the universe pegged by independent
methods of measurement to something over 13 billion years.
'' That tells people that I am at least intelligent enough to require proof
of existence» = > It does no such thing as you can not claim nor do you have evidence as to what is beyond
measurement or accountability by accepted scientific
method.
Of course, I had to make it again using proper
methods and
measurements just to make sure it wasn't a fluke... and also because I'd polished off the first batch.
Modern
methods, specifically high - performance liquid chromatography, makes direct
measurement of capsaisin possible.
I make bread using the baker's percentage
method of measurements.
I'm American, and had to try to convert the recipe to familiar
measurements, so I can't guarantee the faithfulness
of my
method, but the results were delicious!
Volume is a notoriously inaccurate
method of measurement when it comes to cooking, and I can imagine the macros could change quite a lot depending on how finely something is chopped or how efficiently packed into the measuring cup.
«We have to make sure we don't inculcate a macho culture where you have to work 18 hours a day and prove you're a «man» or prove yourself by some old - fashioned
method of measurement,» he said.
This recipe is undoubtedly a winner if you are using the cup / ounces
method of measurement.
Use imperial
measurements Method How to make Bacon and Broccoli Rice Bowl Cover the eggs with about 1 inch
of water in a small saucepan.
These are the perfect dessert to make with kids because
of the simple ingredients,
measurements and
method.
Dear Dave, How are «Scoville Units» determined, and what is the
method of taking this
measurement?
An exact
measurement is not easy to specify because your finished product may be different in volume than ours, depending on how long it was cooked or your
method of preparation.
All that said, always believe your senses and your mind first as it is still the best
method of player
measurement, as it is with all the things that we can observe.
A lot
of cooks simply reply on prodding food with their fingers or judging whether it's cooked or not based on appearance which, as this isn't an accurate
method of measurement at all, can be extremely dangerous.
Because
of different
measurement methods, Pls allow 2 - 3 cm error.
A range
of physical
measurements were taken using standard
methods and a blood sample was collected.
The effect
of study size, age groups at outcome
measurement (comparing those aged 16 — 30 y with those aged ≥ 50 y), year
of birth, the
method of ascertainment
of infant feeding status (whether contemporary or recalled over a period
of ≥ 5 y) was examined by using meta - regression and sensitivity analysis.
I found all
of these to be very interesting
methods, I just wanted to mimic compression a little more and try two different approaches — one with compression (mass
measurement) and one without (volumetric).
We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at
measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade
of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation
of a minimum duration
of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion
of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2),
method of blood pressure
measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).
Here is where linguistic
methods inevitably rely on interpretation
of human readers
of texts, rather than statistical
measurement, so I would be foolish to draw any strong conclusions from such a basic analysis
of two speeches.
Value - added
methods and
measurements are also being utilized in education as part
of a national movement towards teacher evaluation and accountability in the United States.
«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable
methods of nerve fiber
measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study
of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection
of damage, progression
of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment
of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.
This ultimate
method for unraveling ensemble averages leads to the observation
of new effects and to direct
measurements of stochastic fluctuations.
Unlike a GPS
method proposed last year, which detects seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's crust to distant receivers, the new ground - based system takes real - time
measurements of vertical ground motion — the type
of fault movement more likely to produce tsunamis (Journal
of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2006JB004640).
Once observations
of the moment
of inertia will be possible through the
measurement of binary pulsars, the new
method will allow us to measure the stellar radius with a precision
of 10 % or less.
Using a statistical
method, Marotzke and Forster analysed the contributions
of the individual factors and found that none
of the physical reasons explains the distribution
of predictions and the deviation from the
measurements.
Conventional
methods for identifying complex gene interactions rely on precise
measurements of the genetic fitness
of mutants.
Wiedermann and von Eye's six studies were published in the British Journal
of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, the Journal
of Person - Oriented Research, Educational and Psychological
Measurement, Multivariate Behavioral Research, the International Journal
of Behavioral Development and Psychological
Methods.
This
method simulates the distances in space across which absorption
measurements are taken, but in a sample length
of 75 cm.
The traditional
methods used in materials science analysis, like high - powered electron microscopy and spectroscopy, do not combine chemical insights with the spatial resolution
of IR imaging, the researchers said, so they can only provide average chemical
measurements.
According to Robert Clayton, a professor emeritus at the University
of Chicago in Illinois who pioneered the use
of oxygen isotopes in cosmochemistry, the authors may have done little more than find a more precise
method of measurement.
Baker's work focuses on comparing the results from this
method to those from the gold standard procedure, in which all
of an athlete's sweat is collected, not just a sample, and developing protocols for getting the most accurate results from these absorbent pad - based
measurements.
Using what's known as multimodal imaging technologies, which combine several
methods such as PET - CT and simultaneous
measurement, scientists can represent the different types
of tissue without penetrating them.