"I would like to make clear to our American partners how important it is to ensure things are proportionate in terms of the personal rights of our citizens," the interior minister said in a statement before his departure.
Such proportionate universalism would define "tailoring" as much in terms of the scale and intensity of action required for those most in need, as much as any changes in objective intervention form.
For studies that use such measures, one simple and intuitive way to quantify effect sizes is in terms of proportionate change from baseline, using an effect size known as the log response ratio.
Each column of Figure 4 re-expresses SMD values in terms of proportionate and absolute changes from baseline values (reflecting observed among-participant variation in consumption-levels within each corresponding UK sample).
Anthony McClaran, chief executive of the QAA, says the body "puts a lot of effort into minimising bureaucracy and to ensuring that any expense – whether financial or in terms of human resources – is proportionate to what we are trying to achieve".
I spent seven years as the restoration program manager and then as the science coördinator for the state-federal Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council and, unfortunately, from that experience, suspect that it is premature to draw conclusions about the spill's impact on birds in the Gulf, either in terms of numbers or in terms of proportionate impacts on populations at risk.
In terms of relative burden, described as the proportion of the pre-conflict population that are IDPs, the governorates with the highest burden of displacement were Tartous (47 %) and Rif Damascus (41%%); Dara'a was least affected in terms of both the absolute and proportionate size of the displaced population (Fig. 3).
In the view of the ERB ethics review should not be dogmatic and ought to be proportionate in terms of benefit and harms.
To be terrified at seeing your child on the edge of a precipice is hardly unreasonable, he said, and emotions should be assessed less in terms of their rationality than of how appropriate and proportionate they are in specific situations.
However, the amount of rules that are first extracted and then reordered is often enormous, demanding proportionate resources both in terms of memory and CPU.
