TESIS is a set of solar imaging instruments in development by the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, to be launched aboard the Russian spacecraft CORONAS-PHOTON in December 2008.
Phase II, including 28 participants in cognitive interviews [ 59] and more than 600 participants completing the draft instrument [manuscript in development], provides greater diversity in gender, race/ethnicity, and education.
Throughout the centuries, utilities have been an important and sometimes decisive instrument in human development.
Thus, from the Shang dynasty oracle bones to the products of the modern printing press, culture in the form of written works has been a key instrument in the development of political thought and a tool of governance.
Conceptual models have long been recognized as a key instrument in the development of service delivery systems.
Although responsiveness indices were calculated for the 17 item instrument in the development sample and for the 15 item instrument in the validation sample, these results highlight the sample dependency of responsiveness indices.
Their acts of resistance, though mainly instinctive and uncalculated, are the most important instruments in the development of collective identities.
In addition, rater 1 had expertise in instrument development, but was not involved in the adaptation process in the present study.
The most recent application of this methodology was in outcomes research and in instrument development[ 21, 22].
Recent studies in health have explored the use of Rasch models in instrument development [ 2- 4], modification of existing questionnaires [ 5- 8], as well as in instrument and cross-linguistic comparison [ 9, 10].
