The results are expressed as counts per minute (c.p.m .. Spleen cells from immunized and control mice, aseptically removed 14 days post-infection, were prepared as described in the previous item.
There were 90 potential newspaper items identified and then further checked to remove duplicates and assess relevance, as described in the previous section, leaving 65 items for analysis.
These steps follow the general PROM development process as described in the literature [25, 26, 27]: item generation based on patient interviews or focus groups, selecting the items, developing scales and scoring method, and pilot testing the items (cognitive validation).
As described in the method section above, new items were written following the guiding principals elaborated by Kline [ 57] and Streiner and Norman [ 58], drawing on the conceptual underpinning of the scale and taking into account items that had failed to perform.
The items were written as described in the method section above, drawing on the conceptual underpinning of the scale and taking into account items that had failed to perform in the previous two revisions.
"I was looking at my work desk, with items as described in the poem".
Table 2 provides a list of all items in the EMMI as well as factor loadings for each item, as described in the following section.
Steps were performed as described in the Nextera DNA Sample Preparation Guide (Item # 15027987 Rev. B October 2012).
