Also, as a temporary fix, the EPR's operational flexibility should be abandoned "until after licensing, and the implementation of new changes in the methodology or the safety criteria so as to ease the operating constraints," according to a May 2007 document.
But Pravin Visaria, the economist who has overseen the surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization since 1991, cautioned that while the 1999 poverty measurements are the most accurate to date, they cannot be compared with the results from earlier years because of changes in the methodology of the survey.
Furthermore, changes in the methodology and design of future neuroprotection trials are required in order to exclude an impact of confounding symptomatic effects on observations.
As I demonstrate below, the main difference between the Piketty time series for UK inequality and the Giles time series for UK inequality, is that Piketty corrects his data series to allow for this 23 percentage-point drop (caused by changes in the methodology used to measure the wealth distribution), whereas Giles does not.
The effect of HAZ on verbal skills, however, is less robust to changes in the methodology.
Changes in the methodology were taken into account by providing the students with more learning resources.
The structural break in 1980 likely is due to changes in the methodology for computing the CPI.
Basically, two actions were carried out (phase 4): making changes in the methodology and increasing the level of difficulty of the assessment activities.
For the WEF, both the overall GCI and the specific LME index are used to track changes in country rankings from one year to another, without taking into account the almost annual changes in the methodology (components).
Despite changes in the methodology for U.S. News & World Report's annual best colleges rankings, the list of top national universities was once again dominated by Ivy League schools and elite institutions like Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
