In the 1950s, psychologists at Stanford University, California, devised a scale for measuring hypnotic susceptibility.
For this assessment, we devised a scale in which points were assigned for study parameters indicative of good quality (e.g., well-defined populations, clear definitions, valid measures).
Astronomers have devised a scale to rate the danger posed by asteroids headed for Earth, comparable to the Richter scale of earthquake fame.
In 2001, the amateur astronomer John Bortle devised a scale to help.
As the Central American nations devastated by Hurricane Mitch struggle to pick up the pieces, meteorologists here are beginning to consider devising a new scale for measuring hurricanes in an effort to give the public a broader view of the potential danger.
Through its vast array of information collected via its e-mail list, Facebook and millions of door-to-door discussions conducted by volunteers in swing states — and fed into the campaign database — the campaign devised a ranking scale for voters ranging from likeliest to support Mr. Obama to least likely.
Researchers have devised a sliding scale for ideal parental involvement but we only hear about those at the extreme end - the pushy parents.
Future large-scale studies should devise a reliability scale to evaluate the questionnaire.
Results: Because applicability depends on the specific questions and needs of the users, it is difficult to devise a valid uniform scale for rating the overall applicability of individual studies or body of evidence.
The range of questions on maths skills enables Handel to devise a satisfactory scale of maths complexity, with rather better properties than, for example, those of the maths usage scales used within the OECD's Survey of Adult skills.
Furthermore, we devise a technique for multi-scale feature abstraction using deeply supervised branches which are connected to all convolutional layers of the multi-stream CNN.
