Tracing Coltrane's tentative first steps, the early refuge in standards, the religious conversion, the casting around in other cultures and languages, the change of instruments and the final preference for pure incantation, Ratliff's book seems to describe an odyssey that's primarily spiritual rather than aesthetic or political.
The present study was triggered by a simultaneous change of instruments in both the core laboratory and on the wards.
Moreover, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDAA) released a PRO guidance in 2009, which suggested that a small randomized study is needed to provide evidence to confirm the new instrument's adequacy for any change of instrument such as changing an instrument from paper to electronic format [ 34].
Two articles that tried to explain the COSMIN rules demand that, in this case, the score change of instrument 1 (= a) must be compared to that of an external criterion/gold standard (= c) and then be related to the change of instrument 2 (= b); see p. 5 of [ 2] and the empirical example [ 5].
In order to assess instrumentation health at higher frequency and detect sudden changes of instrument responses, it might be beneficial to combine our method with other routinely applicable approaches, such as daily background noise level monitoring (Ringler et al. 2010).
For example, earthquake catalogs may include artificial seismicity rate changes (e.g., installation or closure of seismic stations, changes of instrument for seismic observation, and systematic changes in the magnitudes assigned to events) (Habermann, 1981, 1982a, b, 1983 , 1987 , 1991Perez and Scholtz, 1984; Wyss and Burford, 1985; Katsumata and Kasahara, 2004; Katsumata, 2006).
RIs remained consistent despite these two changes of instrument as no clinically significant shifts in results were detected by comparison studies (T. James, personal correspondence).
The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare baseline and post-treatment values for the outcome measures to investigate the responsiveness or sensitivity to change of both instruments.
The second experiment examined how the volume change of two instrument parts (a two-instrument combination for volume change) cooperatively affects the shift in genre classification.
Therefore, we conclude that the change of an instrument response caused by age-related degradation or large earthquakes is usually too small to affect the result of the PII.
Whilst this is useful in that it can be performed on a single STEM image, this approach requires a mode change of the instrument making it challenging or impossible to work with the same region of interest.
