Among patients with active TB, we assumed that TB culture offers no benefit among sputum-smear positive patients, and that a proportion of patients (as estimated by the World Health Organization, WHO [19]) are diagnosed with smear-negative TB on the basis of tools other than culture (e.g., chest X-ray, clinical judgment).
Their advice is that responsiveness ranking countries should be done on the basis of tools that take into account the views of their own citizens [ 10, 12].
All musical instruments, including the voice, require some movement on the part of the musician, and the brain has evolved very sophisticated mechanisms for learning motor-action sequences, the basis of tool use.
The experimental cp(T) was reproduced by the modelling data calculated on the basis of Tool-Narayanaswamy-Moynihan framework to derive the data of fictive temperature (Tf).
To understand the causes of cognitive expansion in humans, we need to know the behavioral and neural basis of tool use.
This study is one of the first to use functional neuroimaging to examine real as opposed to simulated tool use, and increases our understanding of the neural basis of tool use in humans.
The variability in the content of critical appraisal tools could be accounted for by the lack of any empirical basis of tool construction, established validity of item construction, and the lack of a gold standard against which to compare new critical tools.
Its users can experiment at ease over the web with the integrated tools and functionalities, and build own prototypical problem solvers on the basis of components (tools and transformations) contained in the ETI repository.
In Ledetraad til nordisk Oldkyndighed (1836; A Guide to Northern Antiquities), he categorized ancient European societies on the basis of their tools, calling the developmental stages the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages.
Semi quantitative methods assume weights and ranking on the basis of logical tools such as AHP, fuzzy logic and weighted linear combination (WLC).
The system, developed on the basis of COTS tools, can easily interface the control room instrumentation and display the typical monitoring parameters (e.g. nuclear power, temperatures, flow rates, radiological variables) in an intuitive, user-adjustable way for plant operators.
