Ten million students sat the College English Test (CET) in 2008 and almost 18 million in 2012 (see Jin 2014 for an insider perspective of the development of this examination) and its influence can only be described as "pervasive" (Li et al., 2012).
Node of first fruiting branch (NFFB): Used as a test of plant maturity and development by the examination of the maintem node (counted from the first true leaf) of the first fruiting branch [ 20].
Additional details related to the development and validation of the examination are reported elsewhere [ 7, 27].
Given the focus on the development and validation of the examination in the current paper, future research will directed towards establishing its reliability.
This development facilitates the examination of the folding pathways of large proteins, which are predominant in the proteasomes of all organisms, but have thus far eluded study because of the technical limitations encountered when using traditional techniques.
By sampling a range of symptoms, the development of the WHQ enabled examination of the relationships between these symptom clusters.
Development of the definition included examination of a number of ICD-9 codes for Alzheimer's disease, number of codes plus an "event" (neuroimaging, B12, TSH assays), codes by specialty providers vs. generalists, and fills for dementia drugs.
For this reason, more recent studies often incorporate detailed information of cellulase effects on plant growth and development, such as the examination of recombinant EG activity on plant cell walls in the poplar studies mentioned above [ 157, 162].
Publications on the development of the questionnaire and the examination of the reliability and validity have been submitted to a journal and are available on request.
This paper examines the assumptions that commonly underpin the design of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) within development programmes through the examination of a case study of a large rural development programme in Uganda.
