The fog-shrouded point won by Republic of Ireland in Zenica on Friday has produced clarity in one sense.
Seeing them back to back, however, they struck me as dual studies in love's susceptibility to the manipulations of others, a theme that certainly recurs elsewhere in Shakespeare but is explored most movingly and with a fierce clarity in these two plays.
The Fed's widely expected announcement on Wednesday that it would press ahead with its stimulus campaign of asset purchases and low interest rates reflected the reality that the nation's central bankers gained little clarity in the six weeks since their last meeting, in part because the government shutdown delayed and distorted key economic indicators.
The patient questionnaire was developed by a team of specialists including rheumatologists, a sexologist and patients, and pretested for clarity and relevance in two rounds with two different groups of patients.
In previous studies, the terms "adherence" and "attendance in weeks" are used interchangeably (Hughes et al., 2006; Sjosten et al., 2007), causing lack of clarity in how the two concepts are defined.
The questionnaire items and the format were pilot tested for clarity and face validity in two different settings, including primary care physician participants in a health services research seminar at UC Davis and a web based questionnaire e-mailed to primary care colleagues in academic settings.
Such thoughts came to me with particular clarity in relation to "Six Degrees," a defining American play of the 1990s whose original New York production — at Lincoln Center Theater and directed by Jerry Zaks — exactly captured the mood of a city and a culture at a very specific time.
For clarity in data presentation, four diagnostic groups were considered: cardiac surgery, liver transplantation, gastrointestinal bleeding, and mixed group.
They were asked to rate the questions in two dimensions, clarity and importance, and to comment on the questions.
The employees pointed to inconsistent compensation and lack of clarity in management decisions as two issues related to high turnover that could be improved by a union presence.
