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The precisely defined grading criteria of the Chicago BPS removes the second source of error from the Chicago BPS scores.
Masked observers and defined grading systems on a large number of participants were used, thereby allowing significance testing to be performed.
The evaluation of the biological tolerability by periodical eye examination during 180 min and quantification in a defined grading system revealed that the INS evoked minimal to no irritations whereas the MS was perfectly tolerated.
There is no defined grading system for the appearance of the ACL, so our system of Normal, present but abnormal and absent was a pragmatic but not previously validated attempt to so grade the ACL.
The better defined grading criteria, better designed numerical ratings scale, and better correspondence between Chicago BPS total score and the adequate/inadequate BPS make the Chicago BPS an attractive alternative to the Ottawa BPS and the Boston BPS.
BPSs with imprecisely defined grading criteria have two important contributors to the errors of the scores: (1) the ability of the rater to make the estimate; and (2) the rater's interpretation of the BPS grading scale.
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With the ACA, however, insurers operate under clear ground rules, with clearly defined grades of plan and discrimination banned.
On the bases of this grading, three groups have been defined: grades 1 3.
The ability to recruit these muscles is quantified by assigning 1 of 6 defined grades.
PIRLS 2011 defined Grade 4 students' reading ability according to a four-point scale (i.e., low, intermediate, high, and advanced levels).
TSA employees, for instance, are not part of the same General Schedule salary system as other federal workers that gives clearly defined grades of pay and steps for advancement ― annual pay for TSA officers starts at around $25,000 to $30,000 a year.
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