These activities, in hierarchical order of difficulty from lowest to highest were (1) sitting over the edge of the bed, (2) sitting in a chair, (3) use of a tilt table to ≥40 degrees and (4) standing and ambulating.
Women of the intervention group participated in the physical and educational activities of the BPP conducted in addition to routine activities offered at the prenatal clinic, on the same days of the prenatal visits, in order to minimize the difficulties women from low resource settings have to attend health education activities organized otherwise.
The visual ability scale estimated from the 17 NEI-VFQ items is proportional to the visual ability scales estimated from two earlier studies that also elicited difficulty ratings from low-vision patients.
We defined high-performing students as those scoring in the top third of students, while low-performing students were those who scored in the bottom third of students; and we calculated D by subtracting the average item difficulty for low performers from that of high performers for each item (Crocker and Algina, 1986).
Seeing as Rumer has had her fashion difficulties, from terrifyingly low necklines to torn-at-the-butt jorts, we're more than happy to see her turn things around.
At the same age survey members were also asked to read aloud 50 words, ranging from low difficulty (e.g. egg, book) to high difficulty (e.g. extraneous, ophthalmic).
The combustion difficulties for low heating value (LHV) gases derived from biomass fuels via a gasification process have led to more investigations into LHV gas combustors.
Generally, we did not encounter difficulties obtaining informed consent from low literacy individuals in Qatar, in contrast to previous findings [ 20].
The statistical difficulties of estimating cancer risks from low doses of a carcinogen are illustrated by examples from radiation carcinogenesis.
Health systems suffer from low pay, difficulties in retaining staff, leading to serious health workforce inadequacy and poor resources to improve quality of healthcare services [ 17].
