Considering that there are no gold standard instruments against which to compare the RAD questionnaire, a convenience sample of known people with disability were recruited in Fiji to test the sensitivity and specificity of the proposed cut off criteria to identify people with disability.
At the same time, House Republicans have made it clear they have no intention of bringing the currency measure to the floor, and the White House has given it a chilly reception, fearing it too blunt an instrument against China, which has slowly moved to increase its currency value.
The human assessment of texture has to be the standard against which instrument readings are calibrated.
The individual character of the SEIQoL-DW implies, however, that the conventional psychometrics may be irrelevant, because there is no standard against which the instrument can be tested [ 8].
A nuclear theme typically extends over a number of four-beat "bars," against which other instruments play a related countermelody.
For many years, applanation tonometry was considered to set a standard against which other instruments were measured.
Government bonds are used as a broadly risk-free asset against which other financial instruments are priced (see article).
Besides widening the scope of the orchestra with extra winds and percussion, he made it more than ever a cohesive single instrument, bequeathing to the 19th century a standard against which composers measured the effectiveness of their own orchestrations.
Thus a framework may not simply be an instrument for analysis but may also represent a scaffold against which findings from the different components of an assessment may be brought together and organised.
Using a similar search process, HEE quality appraisal instruments were determined possibly relevant if they provided explicit criteria against which the quality of economic evaluations could be appraised.
