We have assumed that the smoking status reported by questionnaire respondents was reliable, since questionnaire data obtained by similar means in previous studies [ 4, 5] have been found to be accurate [ 17], and informing recipients that their responses would be used to update their medical records should, if anything, have improved the validity of responses.
"It's extraordinary that they've been able to adapt and change without disturbing the reputation and quality of the magazine — if anything, it perhaps has improved — and at the same time build a set of other programs which take the long view".
"Anything that measures sentiment has improved," an economist at Deutsche Bank, Joseph LaVorgna, said.
If anything, they say, service has improved since the yoke of county bureaucracy was lifted.
His first book, "The Net Delusion," looked skeptically at the belief that social networks were responsible for fomenting political change across the globe, and in the new "To Save Everything, Click Here" he has expanded that critique to question whether the Internet has improved anything.
And, if anything, the status of women has improved in the country since that time, at least unofficially, as women are the primary actors in the private markets that have sprung up around the country since the 1990s.
To be honest, if anything, my attitude toward the US has improved.
The answer is a from-the-rooftops yes: if anything, this hour of blisteringly sarcastic comedy has improved.
Public transport has improved.
Attendance has improved, too.
