The phrase "adaptive instruments" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where tools or devices are designed to adjust or respond to varying conditions or needs.
Example: "The research team developed adaptive instruments that can modify their functionality based on environmental changes."
Alternatives: "flexible tools" or "responsive devices".
Physical barriers include geographical location, travel time and cost, and lack of adaptive instruments including handrails, parking spaces, signage, adapted toilets, and wheelchairs.
The best option for Western governments is thus to pursue gradual change, propelled by a variety of adaptive instruments, which would reach a critical mass over time.
Item response theory (IRT) is extensively used to develop adaptive instruments of health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
The next step should be to field test adaptive instruments and validate them prospectively, to make certain that they are acceptable to patients and clinicians, and to measure the costs of implementing them.
A sophisticated platform allowing PRO data collection via the web-browser is offered by the US American initiative PROMIS, which is developing Item Response Theory-based PRO measures (including computer-adaptive instruments) [ 37].
30 Formerly performed stabilization with a telescopic rod has shown unsatisfactory results: The idea to provide a height-adaptive instrument was marred by manufacturing deficiency and multiple crankshaft phenomena.
The possibility of using adaptive optics instruments for visual testing [ 23] has recently allowed tackling this question from a wider perspective [ 24, 25].
The observations were made possible by the NACO adaptive optics instrument on the Very Large Telescope, which compensates for the blurring caused by Earth's atmosphere.
An adaptive optics instrument customized for in vivo imaging of the mouse retina with this improved wavefront sensing method is currently under development.
GMTIFS will be the work-horse adaptive-optics instrument on GMT.
There is a need for more practical, cost-effective and adaptive flow measurement instruments.
