The review was hindered by an absence of information on the VA instrument used by a substantial number of studies.
Although originally intended as a unidimensional instrument, a number of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis studies have found evidence for two- and three factor structures.
In designing the survey instrument, a number of existing instruments were considered for each key construct of interest based on a review of the literature around these constructs and their measurement.
Although there is no rule of thumb when validating a QoL instrument, a number of considerations should be taken into account - for example reliability, validity and responsiveness, representative samples of the targeted population, appropriate analysis techniques, and controls over plausible confounding factors [ 2].
Mozilo and his associates "crafted mortgage instruments that did great harm to individuals and the community, and they persisted in expanding these damaging mortgage instruments over a number of years," Brown said in an interview.
Modern azimuth instruments embody a number of refinements, but the principle remains unchanged.
He played piano and wind instruments with a number of small musical ensembles throughout his school years.
His early instruments, among them a large one for the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition (1851), gained him a wide reputation, and thereafter he built or restored perhaps 1,000 church and concert hall instruments, including a number outside England.
This chapter examines the Fabry Perot spectrometer (FPS) in detail and outlines the basis for the design of real instruments and a number of applications to atmospheric measurement.
Researchers at the University of Surrey in the U.K. were able to use a deep convolutional neural network to separate vocals from backing instruments in a number of songs.
