Quality of evidence base Level of evidence Clearly defined levels of evidence.
The emerging performance-based design requires more clearly defined levels of inelastic response, or damage, to be targeted for different earthquake hazard levels.
10 Previous research highlighted the need for clearly defined levels of responsibility and triggers for onward referral; 17 this study confirmed these findings.
However, the steps in the FS and DS scales correspond to clearly defined levels of ability or disability (see Additional files 1 and 2) and a change of one step is therefore a clearly noticeable difference to the patient.
Among a population-based cohort of U.S. adults, we found that socio-demographic factors, including household income, varied in an expected direction across county poverty levels, and the county poverty metric clearly defined levels of material disadvantage for this population.
By offering flexibility in participation and tracking members' participation at clearly defined levels of engagement we aimed to facilitate the process of monitoring and evaluating project activities and goals, as well as to fulfill our annual reporting commitments to the British Academy.
As a result, the present developments provide both analytical and experimental basis for achieving quantitative weld sizing so that weld throat fatigue failure mode can be effectively prevented with a clearly defined confidence level without the need of over-sizing.
Scores ranged from 2 to 9 and the median score was 6. Eleven studies clearly defined the level of exposure (smoking) [ 14, 16, 17, 25, 29, 31, 33, 34, 38, 54, 56].
Discussions must be held at international level – it is the world wide web after all – to agree clearly defined privacy levels (either those proposed above, or some other widely adopted definition).
Although the factors governing the tropism of various strains have not yet been clearly defined, the levels and polymorphisms of gB (gp110), another glycoprotein essential for mediating viral infection in both epithelial and B cells, appear to be involved [28].
Although death represents both clearly defined and individual level data as an exposure to psychological stress, its measurement has other limitations.
