For the decision regarding which pelvic limb was more severely affected, a fair agreement (kappa value, 0.30) between the two observers was noted.
"Anybody looking at this from the outside says, 'There's been a lot of hot air coming out of the U.S., so why should we listen to these guys when they didn't know how to manage risk?' " Here in China, economic observers are noting that the Chinese posture toward the Americans has decidedly shifted.
However, labor observers are noting the second recent case of a Wisconsin manufacturing company very deliberately provoking a strike to gain the insertion of a "right-to-work" provision, suggesting that Gov. Walker's attack on public employee rights is spreading to the private sector.
Although the VE validation was not the main focus of our study, we observed an interesting nonlinear dependence of inter-observer variation on the magnitude of the measurement: high standard deviations in the five VE observers' mean were noted in the middle of the Ki67 LI scale.
There was good agreement between the observers, any discrepancies were noted and a consensus opinion reached.
Causes of image degradation were noted by both observers as arterial wall calcifications, motion artifacts, or others.
Presidential elections held on March 4, 2010, were also deemed largely free and fair by international observers, although some procedural problems were noted.
Other forms of electoral wrongdoing, such as the misuse of government resources, proxy voting and biased news coverage by state-owned media, were noted by observer groups.
During the revolt, the ships were noted by many observers to be well handled, despite a previous belief that the Brazilian Navy was incapable of effectively operating the ships even before being split by a rebellion.
