The Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) is an ongoing population-based cohort study, with continuous recruitment since December 1997, which has been designed to determine risk factors for atherosclerosis in Tehran's urban population and to develop population based measures aimed at changing life styles and halting the increasing trend of DM and dyslipidemia [ 25].
Corpus-based measures aim to identify the degree of similarity between text units using statistical patterns of words derived from large corpora, where the most representative measures are cosine similarity, averaged Kullback Leibler divergence (KLD) and the squared Euclidean distance [ 15].
Potočnik proposed a package of measures aimed to avoid 58,000 premature deaths a year by 2030.
This measure aims to be an incentive for the industry to provide more healthy options.
The measure aims to protect privacy rights.
And the measure aims to totally overhaul the way the Capitol deals with sexual harassment complaints.
What's on the table in Colorado is a personhood measure, aiming to ban all abortion.
An altogether different approach, aimed to estimate activity based measures of victimization risk, was followed by Lemieux and Felson ([2012]).
Broadly based programs of work that aim to measure and describe the complex 'real world' of health services behavior and system improvement pose significant challenges in terms of designing, synthesising and reporting the results.
Our novel relative risk-based severity indexes based on ILI age patterns aim to address the limitations of traditional severity measures.
The continuum approach has led to the development of the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Skinner, et al., 2001), an empirically based self-report measure that aims to quantitatively assess features related to the impairments characteristic of ASDs.
