In van Anders' study, 196 healthy men and women were studied, and the amount of cortisol and testosterone in their saliva was measured to seek a correlation between sexual desire and levels of these hormones.
These personalities, or "alters," apparently have profoundly different voices, speech patterns, self-descriptions, memories, character traits, beliefs, desires, and levels of education.
To reach a desired functionality and level of durability of constructed and existing concrete structures, proper and improved descriptors of physical-chemical and morphological states are needed.
The sample size required for an estimate with the desired precision and level of confidence was calculated before sampling using the open source software OpenEpi [ 15].
We found a rate of mismatch between desired and actual level of involvement of 31%.
In health accreditation a standard is "a desired and achievable level of performance against which actual performance is measured" [ 1].
Needs were identified by explicit gaps between desired and current level of participation in daily and social activities of each older adult [ 21].
In the healthcare accreditation context, a standard is defined as "a desired and achievable level of performance against which actual performance is measured".
Physicians often misjudge patients' treatment preferences, desire for information, needs, and level of understanding [ 2, 12].
According to cognitive discrepancy theory, loneliness is defined as an unwanted discrepancy between desired and achieved levels of social contact [ 1].
