Pedro Paulo, CEO of e-procurement platform provider Gatewit The findings of the report are not altogether surprising because we saw a similar situation in the NHS uncovered recently, with prices paid for identical items such as surgical gloves varying wildly between trusts.
The production variety funnel is also called IVAT analysis, which regards internal operations as conforming to I, V, A, or T shapes: I plants consist of unidirectional, unvarying production of multiple identical items such as a chemical plant.
Despite seeing robust guidance effects in conditions in which participants were asked to encode the details of an image, and visually similar (or identical) items were present as distractors in the search display, we found no evidence of guidance by category-level semantic information.
The RAND-36[ 14], is a 36-item generic health status questionnaire that has identical items and health dimensions as the SF-36, but does not have licensing fee.
As expected the percent identical items on test and retest were highest in OSS with fewest answer categories and a possibility of a higher degree of identical items by chance.
In a world where economies of scale do not matter any more, mass-manufacturing identical items may not be necessary or appropriate, especially as 3D printing allows for a great deal of customisation.
Further, Dorans and Middleton ([2012]) cogently argue, using well-established literature and empirical support, that language is a condition of measurement and as such, typical assumptions that identical items translated into testing languages are not necessarily equivalent.
They sell mostly identical items, for mostly the same price.
Each question set contained identical items, but the order of items was changed.
Identical items were used in the pre- and posttest.
