The thresholds b jm(m = 1,..., M) indicate how the item scores categorize the θ scale into M + 1 groups and can be conceived as points on the latent θ scale where the item optimally discriminates high θ from low θ values.
Born in Illinois (though probably conceived, he points out, in Texas, where his father, an air force pilot, was stationed and where "my mother tracked him down and jumped the fence…"), Shepard was raised in California and lived variously in New York, California and London before New Mexico and Kentucky.
The two bodies interacting and the referee's movement circling the players were conceived as points of reference where happenings occur within the square grid of the boxing ring.
Lawrence and Rechtless have masterfully shown that nodes, when conceived as points of speciations, are not 'real'real
Therefore, it is important to assess if a test conceived for point-of-care utilization can maintain its accuracy in settings where it will be disseminated.
"It's fascinating how similar motifs and starting points conceived during different times form a good dialogue," Mr. Demand said.
Platforms are written in prose, but they are conceived in bullet points and approved by majority votes, and the writing often bears the strain of those transitions of trying to elevate a transaction between the party's factions so that it might say something about the future of the country.
Specific substantial natures (or essences) can be conceived from two points of view: intensionally (in abstracto) and extensionally (in concreto).
The interacting atomic elements (conceived as unextended points of force) give rise to primitive corpuscles and from the cohesion of corpuscles, a body is thereby constituted at the level of appearance.
The very purpose of dialogue is to find common ground and to creatively conceive a point of agreement where there is none.
A kind of wide-eyed and virginal foil to the other characters' moodiness, cynicism and self-assurance, she was originally conceived largely to point up that Girls was different to Sex and the City, Shoshanna's favourite show.
