Sentence examples for as a valid measure from inspiring English sources

However, although the APCA African POS is established as a valid measure of palliative outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, validity is dependent on use and is a question of degree.

Mr. Gray, Mr. Rushton and other economists like Don Thompson, author of "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark," generally judged the counting of illustrations as a valid measure.

In order to serve as a valid measure for formulating social policy and determining benefits, the poverty level must be established by region.

When Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets developed the idea of the concept of GDP back in the 1930s, he cautioned that it should not be construed as a valid measure of wellbeing or the overall economic state.

A UCU member who is an education lecturer in London told me that she has yet to find anyone who views the NSS as a valid measure of teacher effectiveness.

Brains and Beauty GABRIELA MONTELL reports in The Chronicle of Higher Education that Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has found that good looking teachers get better student evaluations than unattractive ones -- findings that cast doubt on "the use of student evaluations as a valid measure of teaching quality".

Urine samples were used as they are a valid measure of body burden from long term constant exposure to elemental mercury [ 39].

A wear-time of ≥ 10 hours/day for ≥ four days was used as the criterion for a valid measure.

SRH was measured with a single item because there is consistent evidence that SRH as a single item is a valid measure for general health [ 20].

Mortality rates have for a long-time been discussed as to whether they are a valid measure of hospital performance.

Unfortunately, the 1 Hz GPS used was unlikely to be sufficient for the assessment of these variables during competition, particularly when high speeds are being reached, questioning its suitability as a valid criterion measure [ 11– 11].