We anticipate that our present results will serve as a useful reference for clinicians attempting to devise an evaluation scale, and that further research will focus on the optimal number of items, the fittest items for selection, and the allocation of marks in rigorous methodology to maximize the linearity of the BPRS.
"You've got the criminals or foreign militaries attempting to devise ammunition that penetrates the latest armor," he said, "and then our response is to develop stronger and tougher and lighter armor that stops those threats, and back and forth, back and forth".
Banks are now attempting to devise ways of avoiding the cap.
The UN's representative was "attempting to devise a formula... which will result in affirmation of Indonesian sovereignty".
Their Secure Digital Music Initiative is attempting to devise foolproof protection against Internet music piracy, which even some members of the initiative concede is an impossible goal.
Mike Tranghese, the Big East Conference commissioner, spent yesterday the way he'll spend the next 12 months: frantically lobbying, bargaining, attempting to devise a strategy to save the conference he has been involved with for the last 23 years.
Because the telephone was considered a variation of acoustic telegraphy, Edison during the summer of 1877 was attempting to devise for it, as he had for the automatic telegraph, a machine that would transcribe signals as they were received, in this instance in the form of the human voice, so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages.
Attempting to devise the full set of standards at once is poor planning.
The key message here is not to give up when attempting to devise an appropriate treatment strategy.
However we have been attempting to devise a simple computable do-it-yourself tool which would help in drawing up and examining the staffing, service and costing implications of alternative skill mix scenarios.
