Sentence examples for balance of items from inspiring English sources

The majority of participants who could choose their articles opted for a balance of items, although voters who were already decided were significantly more likely to select an unbalanced selection.

Even with this adjustment, there remained a higher level of endorsement from the 2005 sample for five of the six motivations, Furthermore, Nunnally [ 35] has suggested that including a balance of items that are positively and negatively worded would essentially eliminate response biases, including acquiescence.

Items with the worst model fit were removed whilst ensuring that the balance of retained items and content validity for the total item-set was retained.

"The full picture will be seen in the balance of the items that haven't been submitted yet," said Robert W. Lazaro, a spokesman for Peter J. Schmitt, the Republican minority leader of the County Legislature.

Although the possibility of eliminating these two items was considered, it was decided that it would be better to tolerate this difference rather than disturbing the balance of positive/negative items by shortening the Energy scale.

While a foreign exchange food security fund has both fiscal and monetary implications (e.g. tax revenues or borrowings to establish the fund, a positive balance of payments item and earnings on the fund until it is needed), a physical commodity stock reserve has mainly fiscal implications if purchased locally, but also monetary if acquired through imports.

Similarly, upscale merchant/wholesaler Michael Kors Holdings is drumming up foot traffic and sales in its retail stores with a savvy balance of high priced items like $3,000 handbags with lower price accessories.

Given the challenges USPs face in portraying a realistic patient consistently and then reliably and validly evaluating their experience of the health care system, we recommend spending some time finding the right balance of including critical items for assessment while minimizing USP burden.

The allocation of scales to the two sets was based on the need to assess overlapping symptom domains (e.g. paranoia and delusions) at the same time-point and to keep the number of items balanced.

We use the Spanish banking sector because Spain's financial markets sustained exponential growth in their balance sheet items of around 20% during the expansion period.

In the interests of balance, two items were selected for exclusion.