Of study participants, 444 (82%) provided self-reported tobacco use status within 7 days of a valid cotinine assay and constitute the sample for validity analyses.
These findings constitute further evidence for the validity of the scores obtained when applying the ARQ to a sample of Spanish adolescents.
Participation in the UK census is high (the overall participation rate in 2001 was 94%), however, non-participation, loss to follow up and exclusion due to missing data constitute possible threats to the validity of the findings.
Rather than discovering together a shared realm of meaning and action through a process of democratic politics, Miller's account seeks to predetermine, prior to encounter, what the shared realm of meaning and action will be, and thus what constitutes criteria for determining the validity of judgments about the good.
So, as far as the gender effect in the answers corresponds to actual differences in health this effect constitutes further evidence for the validity of the items.
We'll be examining the validity of these assertions today.
In truth, Windows 95 and Windows 98 are covered by copyright registrations that "constitute prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright".
The Copyright Act provides that a "certificate of [copyright] registration made before or within five years after first publication of the work shall constitute prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright". 17 U.S.C. § 410(c) (1994).
Under section 410(c), a certificate is to "constitute prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright and of the facts stated in the certificate". The principle that a certificate represents prima facie evidence of copyright validity has been established in a long line of court decisions, and it is a sound one.
These observations constitute a good indication of the validity of the approach used and of the specificity and sensitivity of the technique used.
This constitutes the first demonstration of the validity of the temporal coherence model for segregation in complex acoustic scenes.
