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Re "Why We Like Sad Music" (Sunday Review, Sept. 22): Ai Kawakami doesn't mention a crucial criterion: the quality of the performance.
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Quality of Service(QoS) is an important criterion to measure the quality of third-party web services.
The organization, founded in 1995 to provide a market-based solution to overfishing, assesses fisheries on the basis of three major criteria: the quality of stock management and the health of the stock and the ecosystem that supports it.
Second, according our selection criteria, the quality of studies included in our meta-analysis was satisfactory.
Eight guidelines met the inclusion criteria, the quality of the guidelines varied.
For most of the criteria, the quality of excluded studies was generally low and consequently this led to their exclusion.
Guideline appraisal criteria: the quality of guidelines retrieved was assessed using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument [ 1].
Only six of 19 eligible trials reported these outcomes, and using GRADE criteria the quality of evidence for those outcomes was judged to be very low.
Overall, the CD-RISC (25 items), the RSA (37 items) and the Brief Resilience Scale received the highest ratings, although when considering all quality criteria, the quality of these questionnaires might be considered as only moderate.
Based on the MINORS criteria, the quality of the studies was good, and scored in the upper quartile of the quality score range (13 15 points, possible maximum score was 16 points).
For articles that met predefined inclusion/exclusion criteria, the quality of the studies was assessed using methodological checklists provided in the NICE Guidelines Manual [ 14] and the STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) guidelines [ 15, 16].
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