Authors of other published articles have commented on the difficulty of identifying appropriate indicators for measuring research capacity building.
A systematic bias may lie in the linguistic difficulty of the used indicators to measure access, which may cause a filtering effect in favor of higher educated people.
When we consider the cost and difficulty of implementing explicit indicator approaches to quality assessment [ 31, 32], implicit review instruments with this level of reliability become an interesting alternative for assessing quality of care for the purposes of comparing across providers or sites of care.
During the second part of the workshop, the distribution of ratings was presented for each of the good practice indicators and major issues related to clarity, policy relevance, appropriateness and content of the good practice indicators, difficulty of rating, appropriateness and completeness of evidence presented were discussed in plenary.
4. Ambiguity of indicators and difficulty in defining the measurement parameters are not solved by randomisation.
Because of the difficulty of routinely collecting phenotypic indicators of parasite resistance, information derived from molecular markers may be used to improve the efficiency of classical genetic breeding.
Inconsistencies between indicator responses were most pronounced in transitional waters (i.e. IQI, BEQI), highlighting the difficulties of the generic application of indicators to all marine, estuarine and lagoonal environments.
That is the case since we have developed accurate prognosis tools for identifying learning difficulties by assessing the efficiency of indicators provided by the various tests, and combining the best ones in a Machine Learning framework.
Given the difficulties in identifying a set of indicators on which comparable information is available in the range of industrialized and less developed countries that were included in this survey, it is not surprising that the index is not as comprehensive as the ones mentioned above.
What is new is that Mr Darling has set out 40 indicators of poverty against which the government says it will measure its progress.The sheer number of indicators demonstrates the difficulty of answering an apparently simple question: how many Britons live in poverty?
