The quality of all the included studies was assessed using a modified version of the Hamilton quality assessment tool (web table B). 12 Models that assessed economic impact were appraised with additional questions recommended by experts, because no relevant critical appraisal framework could be identified (web table C).
My minder was smart and appraising, with something regal about her.
The company also failed to take into account whether properties were environmentally contaminated, Mr. Weitzman wrote, even though contaminated sites should be appraised with an eye toward cleanup costs.
Like operations, medications and fad diets, health care policy is usually appraised with a simple question: Does it work, or doesn't it?
"When I was a student, I assumed that my work was meticulously checked and appraised, with the due consideration it deserved, by erudite scholars who perhaps wore tweed," said an anonymous academic, in the middle of a marking marathon.
Her calculated malice is of a piece with her unwelcome arrival some months later at a small party to celebrate the birth of Xiao Yan's baby, which she appraises with cool detachment before saying sweetly, "It looks more like the mother than the father!" - a deliciously subtle, vicious stab at Xiao Yan's sexual continence.
Even though the beast notionally belonged to a queen, it also, we cannot help but feel, exists for its own sake in a free-floating Otherwhere, wafted in on board some ship, and could therefore be appraised with a kind of guiltless fondness.
Study quality was appraised with the Methodological Index for Non-Randomized scoreescoreNORscoreore.
In the quest of better alternatives to steroids, antitumor necrosis factor agent therapy has been appraised with promising results [4].
