Sentence examples similar to instruments endorsed from inspiring English sources

In Afghanistan, production of opium and heroin is a major source of revenue for the ruling Taleban and a political instrument endorsed by bin Ladin to "corrupt" the West.

The work environment was measured using the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), an extensively validated instrument 21 24 endorsed by the National Quality Forum.

It suggests that the "necessary amending instrument" should be endorsed within a year.

The most commonly endorsed screening instrument was the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-2 (MAYSI-2; n = 20).

A widely used approach to providing summary estimates across instruments - an approach endorsed by the Cochrane Collaboration - involves dividing mean differences between intervention and control in each study by the study's standard deviation (SD) and calculating what are called "standardized mean differences" (SMDs) or "effect sizes".

Although studies consistently endorsed the instrument as a tool for screening dementia, gaps in its psychometric history remained open.

The instrument of abdication was endorsed by Parliament on December 11, and on the same evening the former king spoke on a radio broadcast: "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love".

The inclusion of such information should in no way be construed as indicating that such instruments, materials or procedures are endorsed by NIST or are recommended by NIST or that they are necessarily the best instruments, materials or procedures for the purposes described.

Likewise, the third and perhaps most important property that the McMaster group has endorsed for discriminative instruments is interpretability so that small but important cross sectional differences between subjects are distinguishable.

In the field of international family planning, quality of care as a reproductive right is widely endorsed, yet we lack validated data-collection instruments that can accurately assess quality in terms of its public health importance.

Representatives of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra said that they had never endorsed Mr. Axelrod's $50 million appraisal of the instruments and that the orchestra did not even give him a receipt.