Exploratory DIF analyses have been widely used in previous empirical studies, despite the situation that content analysis may not always provide conclusive answers regarding DIF sources and test reviewers cannot determine decisively that the existence of DIF and DBF is due to bias (Geranpayeh and Kunnan 2007; Uiterwijk and Vallen 2005).
Everything Murray did was determined, decisive; he even snatched his towel decisively from a ballboy at the end of each game.
Through the Young Hegelians, this impersonalist form of idealism was soon transformed into equally impersonalist forms of materialism, culminating in Marxism, which regards the essence of man as his true collectivity; impersonalist determinism, in the form of Communism, decisively determined twentieth-century political totalitarianism.
However, island occupancy was decisively determined by individual species traits, with wide-ranging species and poor dispersers showing high local extinction rates.
She added: "We are determined to act decisively but in a way which builds unity across Scotland about the way forward".
Now, faced with a budding scandal on his own watch, Parks was determined to act decisively in exposing and eliminating what he and his investigators believed might be a crew of gangsta cops.
The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what's in the best interests of children.
She added: "We are determined to act decisively but in a way which builds unity across Scotland about the way forward". The advisory panel is expected to include pro-UK figures and non-nationalists.
The Whig dominance continued into the mid-eighteenth century, but the Revolution decisively determined the future structure of the kirk.
Though both aspects can only be decisively determined in in vivo experiments, the incredible and increasing amount of experimental information assembled in databases enables more and more accurate predictions [ 1].
