54 55 The use of decision aids such as screening instruments is recognised as an effective method for improving clinical decision-making.
While the HUIs and EQ-5D, generic health status instruments are recognised as valid and reliable for eliciting health status in adults and children aged over four years (for the HUIs and through proxy-assessment) or 14 years (for the EQ-5D) [ 3- 7], and are widely used in cost-utility analysis (CUA) [ 1, 8], their application for younger age-groups is still controversial [ 1].
A way forward in integrating the concept of "systemic risks" in GMO decision making could be the application of internationally recognised instruments as the Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Pilot testing demonstrated that the wind and string instruments were easily recognised by the non-musicians.
The idea of using a medieval instrument to recognise regulation of newspapers was the idea of Oliver Letwin, the famously clever minister at the Cabinet Office.
Furthermore, since SIFT is a powerful instrument to recognise and retrieve objects, an analysis on SIFT security becomes very important also in the case of content-based image retrieval (CBIR)[6] systems, in order to assess if an attacker is able or not to succeed in deluding the image recognition process.
Reilly's worldwide reputation as a teacher and the new artistic stature he had brought to his instrument were both recognised when he was asked to conduct a harmonica masterclass at the internationally renowned Dartington summer school in 1998.
Instrument calibration is recognised as an important process to assure the quality of data captured with a terrestrial laser scanner.
While an internationally recognised instrument such as the AUDIT [ 21] could have been applied in the second cohort, the original study protocol was chosen for the advantage of comparability.
Today, the most internationally recognised instrument for the evaluation of patients' quality-of-life outcome in cancer research is the Quality of Life Questionnaire-C30 (QLQ-C30) developed by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (Aaronson et al, 1993; Biermann and Küchler, 1999).
