For example, passages in a reading achievement test may contain sports-related content, where the target ability is reading skills and the secondary ability is understanding what the content said about sports.
Each item was loaded on the primary factor (i.e., target ability) and the secondary factor (i.e., secondary ability measured by the content of the testlet) to account for the item clustering effect.
Furthermore, our observation that Nutlin-3 induces formation of γH2AX foci as well as ATM, ChK2 and BRCA1 phosphorylation in cells devoid of MDM2, suggests that the secondary ability of Nutlin-3 to induce DNA-damage is not related to its primary function as an MDM2 antagonist.
A unit may also have a secondary job set of abilities, where it can use any abilities of the selected job, but with the stat profile of the primary job.
All of these tend to cause debility, prostration and reduced functional ability, a secondary disability burden which is the principal cause of YLDs and consequential lost productivity.
A secondary consideration was the ability to specify custom headers and delimiters so as to combine input files with varying formats generated from a variety of statistical packages.
As a secondary test of IQ abilities, the four WISC-IV indices were entered simultaneously into one multivariate regression model, to determine the level of each index's unique contribution to variance in SCQ scores (i.e., to determine whether any of the indices are independently associated with the outcome over and above the other indices).
"It's quite difficult for the incredibly good-looking poor dears, who are getting jobs essentially because of their looks, and for whom ability is a secondary consideration.
The ability of a secondary forest to grow and capture carbon depends mainly on rainfall, the researchers found.
