This scale has, nevertheless, been proved to be a useful instrument for defining major depression [ 46].
In spite of that, the core functionality was easily provided on both platforms, each of which perform identical functions using the same instrument definition XML file, thus demonstrating the viability of our instrument schema for defining an interactive measurement instrument independently of the instrument's actual implementation.
Later, the ecclesiastical and universal church council became the instrument for defining orthodoxy and condemning heresy.
Hammill et al. (1992) have developed a set of criteria that are consistent with key standards for psychological instruments as defined by the American Educational Research Association and the American Psychological Association American Educational Research Association AERA American Psychological Association APA National Centerenter on Measurement in Education (NCME) 1999).
The Dietary Screening Tool (DST) has been validated as a dietary screening instrument for older adults defining three categories of potential nutritional risk based on DST score cutoffs.
Nuclear power plants are by their design well suited for the application of intelligent agents to carry out the safety assurance functions as they are well instrumented for purpose of defining their safety status.
Completion for an instrument was defined as having >80% item responses for the total FACT-G or having >50% item responses for FACT-G subscales, FKSI, and FKSI-DRS.
As many instruments lack a defined focus for effective decision-making, this comparison have revealed the uniqueness of each instrument [ 12, 15].
The date on which the first LC-MS/MS was conducted for each instrument was defined as day one.
ROC-analysis was performed to evaluate the screening properties of the SSI, and the cutoff threshold for the instrument was defined by optimal trade-off between sensitivity and specificity (Youden's index [ 31]).
This is further supported by the fact that high clinical validity for an instrument defined and tested in a patient population has often not been achieved in field studies in general populations [ 42].
