The phrase "adopted instrument" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a specific tool, method, or document has been formally accepted or implemented.
Example: "The organization has implemented the adopted instrument to streamline its processes and improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "accepted tool" or "approved document".
However, the validity of the adopted instrument is questionable since height is correlated both to education and to earnings conditional on education (see for example Persico et al. 2004; Case et al. 2009; Guven and Lee 2013).
Fig. 1 a Illustration of the process to construct of a composting pile at São Paulo Zoo Park Foundation b Illustrationn of technicians sampling material from the composting pile; c Adopted instrument that was applied to access all the layers that form the composting pile (Bitencourt et al. 2010); d Ready sample for microbiological analyzes.
Perceived stigma was measured using adopted instrument that has been used in local context for the same population (PLHIV on HAART) [ 17, 18].
However, the rates of depression in Brazil are variable, due to the adopted instrument to detect MDE, time frame coverage and different sampling methodology.
The adopted instrument was then revised, mainly through rearrangement and addition of items based on other related studies (Rivera, 2006) and the literature (Hong et al., 2009), to suit the needs of the study.
We believe, along with the German and Belgian Governments, that we should enforce observance of Article 1 of the Treaty, which contains the fundamental principle, and adopt instruments and set in place practical controls to ensure its implementation.
We attempted to assess the use of a frailty instrument by counting the number of publications that had adopted the instrument other than the original creators.
And as with everything the Beatles did, imitators were plentiful: after Mr. Harrison played his sitar solo on "Norwegian Wood" and began writing his own songs based on Indian motifs, dozens of rock bands adopted the instrument, and so-called raga-rock flourished briefly.
We have adopted an "instrument approach" to our analysis, inspired by the work of French social scientists Pierre Lascoumes, Patrick Le Galès, Bruno Palier, Sabine Saurugger and Yves Surel.
We have adopted the instrument from a previous study on emergency contraceptive.
The Edenfield Centre Medium secure unit in the North of England has adopted this instrument into routine clinical practice following a series of research based validation studies to examine its utility as part of its ongoing risk assessment research program.
