The Beach Boys October 1966 single "Good Vibrations" was dubbed a "pocket symphony" by publicist Derek Taylor, containing an eclectic array of classical, rock, and exotic instruments structured around a cut-up mosaic of musical sections represented by several discordant key and modal shifts.
A programme of assessment containing instruments structured to facilitate this process, could support learning and monitor progression at higher levels of professional development [ 7, 8].
Because the actual instrument structure is fixed and it is hard to be changed, such as T R 1 spacing and R 1 R 2 spacing, the transmitting frequency can be easily adjusted.
The instrument structure was strengthened with exploratory factor analysis, which explained 65% (sample of patients) or 57% (sample of nurses) of the variance in antecedents, 75% or 74% of the variance in activities, and 60% or 56% of the variance in the consequences of advocacy.
Because data from the items was ordinal, the search for instrument structure employed polychoric correlations.
Instrument structure, reliability (Cronbach's a) and construct validity (convergent, discriminative, concurrent and known-groups) were assessed.
Item selection and instrument structure were based on previously published instruments used to assess the quality of full manuscripts in therapeutic trials and epidemiological research [ 11, 13- 15].
Although the instrument structure is similar with those in the Western countries, items in the HKECDS also tap culturally-sensitive expectations in each domain.
These items were subjected to Expectation Maximisation Estimation using SPSS Missing Values procedure [ 17]. Figure 1 reports the instrument structure and results of the SEM analysis.
In our HS-AFM instrument, which is now commercially available (HS-AFM 1.0, RIBM, Tsukuba, Japan), the sample stage (and not the cantilever tip) is scanned in all three dimensions (lateral dimensions X, Y and vertical dimension Z), which simplifies the instrument structure and gives additional stability to the OBD detection.
