Based on pilot testing from the CACAO-based change adoption process and with the aid of a survey design expert, we organized responses using a modified Q-sorting technique (see Nitzberg (1980) and DeNelsky and McKee (1969) for more Q-sort examples) to identify thematic trends.
Noise contrast levels were chosen based on pilot testing to assess a full range of performance, from ceiling to chance.
The idealization was based on pilot tests on 24 beams, and checked against a further 32 tests covering a much wider range of web openings and web reinforcement patterns.
However, we selected pictures for the recognition test based on pilot testing, choosing boundary and midpoint items with intermediate baseline recognition performance in order to optimize the ability to detect effects of the cuing manipulation.
We selected ten sequential correct interpretations as our end point based on pilot testing with several staff, which suggested that the number of interpretations required to achieve proficiency was significantly less than ten.
The standard deviations of the Gaussian blur kernels used in this experiment were 4.3, 5.8, 8.7, and 11.5 arcmin (for our 70 cm viewing distance), based on pilot testing.
Based on pilot tests and industrial tests, an engineering demonstration line of the novel process for treatment of scheelite concentrate had been constructed and ran for more than 1 year.
Each pressure sensor was calibrated using associated software (I-Scan 6.10, Tekscan, Inc., South Boston, MA) and a two-point calibration method with low and high calibration point forces of 20 and 600 N, respectively, with a software sensitivity setting of 5, to encompass the expected forces and corresponding pressure readings based on pilot testing.
Based on pilot testing, seven levels of signal strength were chosen for experimentation 30%, 36.7%, 44.8%, 54.8%, 66.9%, 81.8% and 100% symmetrical dot-pairs).
The dose and timing of PSK 3668 was chosen based on pilot tests indicating that 100μg 2 h prior to estradiol treatment was sufficient to block estradiol-induced PR expression in the neonatal female rat brain.
