"We all have a responsibility to show leadership and to continue to seek resolutions to contentious issues through discussion, and ensure any difficulties are identified and resolved peacefully, thus showing respect for the views and wishes of everyone in the community".
After all, our government was wisely designed with balances via Congress and the courts to ensure such difficulties.
Pre-test and post-test versions for a given grade matched problems to ensure similar difficulty level (e.g. two-digit multiplication was used as word/notation, abstract, non-spatial problem in both pre-tests and post-tests).
Second, the adaptive psychophysical procedure ensured that difficulty was equated for the different tasks before and after training, ruling out explanations based on general attentional demands.
Examples of these adaptations included replacement of items/terminology unfamiliar to South Africans, simplifications of test instructions, and substitution of items to ensure equivalent difficulty levels in Afrikaans and English.
After each field test, scenarios and items in the CI were eliminated or revised in order to increase readability and to ensure appropriate difficulty and discriminability of all items and optimal selection of all distracters (steps 4 8, Table 1; see Methods for more details).
The guards probably had difficulties ensuring visitors didn't touch the exhibits.
Because of difficulties ensuring that unapproved varieties are not exported, shipments to Europe of American corn have shrunk to extremely low levels in the last few years, said Susan Keith, senior director for public policy of the National Corn Growers Association.
Constraints on the time and expertise available implied there would be difficulties ensuring a sufficient number of trials could be conducted to levels of statistical confidence that would assure appropriate credibility across all of the parameters.
Clearly, the administration must do more to ensure that lender difficulties do not undermine small businesses.
Without security of demand, our member countries will have difficulty ensuring supply through collective actions.
