Sentence examples for extant instruments from inspiring English sources

Due to the dearth of instruments on Deaf preparedness, survey items were adapted from several extant instruments [ 27- 32].

In the United States, this typically involves Spanish translations of extant instruments (e.g., intelligence or speech, language, and memory tests), but the inventory of instruments in Spanish is still quite low.

His earliest known instrument is a double virginal (a rectangular harpsichord with two independent keyboards, set side by side, and two independent sets of strings) dated 1581, now in New York City; his latest extant instrument is dated 1620.

In order to enhance national competitive advantage (Bartels et al. 2009) through exploiting both forms, it is crucial for policy makers in governments to utilise effectively and efficiently extant policy instruments and to design new policies based on empirical evidence as a function of significant variables.

Acculturation questions were selected based on a literature review of extant survey instruments.

The HAQ-DI was developed by parsing questions and components from a variety of instruments extant at the time, and evolved over numerous iterations through a series of subjective and objective assessments via statistical evaluation, physician appraisal, and patient feedback [ 17].

It would be highly unlikely that out of the approx. 800 extant Stradivari and Guarneri instruments we would have come across the only four that possess unusual material compositions.

The study contributes to the extant literature as the instrument employed was effective in evaluating fuel efficiency in air transport and can therefore be confidently used again in FEAT related studies.

We used an extensive and systematic strategy to identify extant English language self-report instruments.

Furthermore, extant studies have used widely varying instruments to assess cognitive and/or non-cognitive skills, many of which were not well validated.

A survey instrument was designed based on the extant literature and relevant data was collected on this instrument from 255 organizations.