The health states incorporated standardized descriptions of treatment response (symptoms have "improved," "stabilized," or "gotten worse"), swollen glands, impact on daily activities, fatigue, appetite, and night sweats.
"Adopting roles in pain assessment" reflected patients' and caregivers' roles in pain assessment, while "Identifying and describing the pain" incorporated participants' descriptions of pain and the challenges they experienced.
The JEM used proximity to the ovens, as did the zone classification used in the original study (Sinks et al. 1992), but also incorporated job descriptions, plant layouts, workers' mobility, exposure intensity and frequency, inhalation and dermal exposure to PCBs, and exposure to other chemicals.
Such reviews will require considerable sophistication; low quality and contradictory systematic reviews may result without thoughtful, non-mechanical appraisal of the studies incorporated, detailed descriptions of the interventions and implementation contexts, and consideration of combinations of multiple components and their interactions.
The original intention was to use qualitative descriptive methods but as the work progressed, we incorporated interpretive description [ 22] methods into our analysis.
A research-based framework that incorporated a description of elementary students' statistical thinking on four constructs and across four levels of thinking informed the hypothetical learning trajectory for the teaching experiment.
The program included special software to enable the input of the initial grain structure and texture and incorporated a description of the misorientation-dependence of the grain-boundary mobility.
We incorporated a description of the statistical analyses including counting procedures and determination of normal distribution (see Methods, subsections "Image Analysis and counting" and "Statistical analyses").
The model incorporated a simple description of the growth of soot which assumed that acetylene was the only growth species.
On one hand, a water ontology incorporated with Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) based enhanced services catalog offers facilities to alleviate semantic heterogeneity and associate semantic information with the web services discovery and data retrieval process.
