Simultaneously, there are two easily solvable, encouraging items and two particularly difficult items that allow assessment at the top end and prevent ceiling effects.
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These results are particularly encouraging because the specialized items tend to be among the newer items in the interRAI suite, whereas the core items are usually refinements of items that have been available for 10 or more years.
The 24% increase in the number of reported CONSORT items is encouraging and probably reflects important reductions in bias in the results of RCTs.
Queralt Ferrer, head of design, thinks the popularity of the item is an encouraging sign.
An encouraging report on big-ticket item purchases lifted some of the persistent economic gloom, and investors brushed off a rise in oil prices ahead of Thursday's gross domestic product data.
But, since launching around five weeks ago, other metrics look pretty encouraging: 10,000+ downloads, and 3,000+ items listed by users.
The high correlation scores generated across all 35 items are especially encouraging that REFERQUAL is a valid and reliable research instrument in this setting explaining, at worst, 74% of the variance.
Mr. Magid was known in particular for encouraging scores of local stations to adopt the "Action News" format, in which traditional news items are interspersed with a liberal dose of crime coverage and lighter entertainments like human-interest stories.
He glowed over Google+'s encouraging numbers, with over one billion items shared a day, and over 10 million users. 1) Search ads and ad products.
