In Levin's view, as Tannenhaus describes, liberal government "is a 'technocratic' monolith, with a master class of experts who construct and administer large-scale programs that subordinate the needs and wishes of the public to the appetites of the policy makers".
Most previous studies assessing PA in relation to pregnancy outcome have used questionnaires or other self-reported measurements of PA, as these are cheap to administer in large scale studies [ 4].
Conducting multi-faceted interventions can often be labor intensive, expensive and difficult to administer on a large scale basis and therefore can usually only be maintained for a limited time.
There is therefore still a need to investigate whether a constructs such as integrity can be successfully developed to be administered on a large scale.
Examples of programmes are the North Karelia Project, the Stanford Five City Multifactor Risk Intervention Project and the Minnesota Heart Health Program, which were centrally administered on a large scale and combined population and high-risk approaches with a focus on traditional major CVD risk factors.
We designed PROKLAS in a paper-and-pencil format because it is easier and faster to administer for large-scale assessments and allows an objective grading when standardized (Kane 1992).
To overcome this weakness, researchers are turning to computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA), i.e., using computer as the mediator, to administer a large-scale study (e.g., Poehner and Lantolf 2013; Tzuriel and Shamir 2002; Pishghadam et al. 2011).
Frank administered a large-scale survey on health-related behaviors to medical students and other students in the United States.
Other manuscripts will describe in detail the psychometric properties of the proxy item banks administered during large-scale field-testing [ 24].
Studies which incorporate newer information technology may lead to more sustained changes as they are simple to administer, and can have a large scale impact by inexpensively involving a variety of health professionals and/or consumers [ 55, 56].
Key experiences from these demonstration projects were community acceptance of cholera vaccination and feasibility of administering the vaccine on a large scale in both rural and urban settings.
