Sentences with phrase «valid measurement for»

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This tool is valid for measuring recovery as it is specific to running fitness measurement and is easily reproducible with minimal variability from external factors (22).

If volume measurements show that leaked gas makes up most of the «unaccounted - for pile», it will provide direct evidence that Howarth's critical assessment of shale gas's green credentials was valid.

Measurements of biological age aren't valid enough «for them to be clinically useful.»

This study introduces a novel computer - based application for precise and valid measurement of MS - related disability: the Multiple Sclerosis Performance Test (MSPT).

A highly specialized electrophysiological technique, microneurography, has been shown to be valid for measurements in animals and in human volunteers and patients.

Fitzgerald saw a need for a fitness program backed by research that would be able to show real progress through valid measurements.

These experts include the Technical Advisory Committee, a group of independent measurement experts who offer advice to ensure measures are valid and reliable and Damian Betebenner, Associate at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment.

Overall, the measurement research on literacy assessment reform suggests that there is still uncertainly about the ability of performance assessments to provide reliable and valid data for accountability.

Only these metrics, the staff said, would meet four criteria needed for a valid measurement: the information is currently collected, consistently defined, can be broken down by school and subgroup and is backed by research.

Simple, online, practice - friendly numerical rating scales are available and are slowly helping to improve recognition of feline pain.13 One such scale has been developed (but not yet validated) by Colorado State University.13 A currently validated assessment tool is the UNESP - Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale, available here.14, 15 The Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale: CMPS — Feline (CMPS - F) has been described as «a valid scale for the measurement of acute pain in cats [that] heralds a new era in the recognition and management of acute pain in cats.»

Since the result comes from measurements of absorption at infrared wavelengths, the results are strictly valid only for relatively cloud - free locations (cloud cover fraction over a 300 km region less than about 60 %).

Doug Proctor says: February 3, 2011 at 2:32 pm «The circular logic of Phil Jones — to drop the mis - matching tree ring data for the recent past on the basis that the previous trends (before temperature data) of proxy data were valid, while the recent proxy data was invalid because it didn't follow the temperature measurement trends is still not understood.»

The NDACC has accepted lidar measurement techniques as valid methods for measuring and monitoring stratospheric ozone, temperature, and aerosols, tropospheric ozone, and tropospheric and lower stratospheric water vapor.

# 10 is valid for measurements beyond a few years.

Uniform per - mile exposure measurement for the first time provides the basis for statistically valid rate classes.

It is our hope that a valid, reliable, and comprehensive tool for the measurement of parents» feeding practices will help advance research in this arena and will allow for much needed clarity in the ways in which parents feed their children.

In all, the SHS - Greek Version can be used as a reliable and valid psychometric tool for the measurement of subjective happiness in the Greek population.

A report by Policy Analysis for California Education found that the measurements of social and emotional skills in the CORE collaborative were a valid way to track student progress in those areas.

In such settings, existing measurement systems are impractical (too long, expensive, time consuming, etc.) and / or lack evidence for their valid use.

Given evidence relating cognitive resistance factors to psychosocial outcomes in the chronic illness population, there is a need for a valid, quantitative measurement tool to assess emotional resources across the illness trajectory.

By requiring the ARELLO ® Examination Accreditation in requests for proposals and contract specifications for examination services, jurisdictions can be confident and trust that a systematic, independent review by subject matter and measurement experts is «Ensuring Standards in Examination Development» that are both valid and defensible.