Sentence examples for interest items from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush has often derided Congressional earmarks as "special interest items" that waste taxpayer money and undermine trust in government.

An initial set of interest items was generated by a group of 77 undergraduate students as part of a course in psychometrics organized at a university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Most available interest assessment tools are designed to be used for self-exploratory purposes, helping students discovering and expanding their interest patterns, and therefore most RIASEC measures use a large set of interest items, often referring to activities that people enjoy, occupations they want to try, or skills, competencies, and characteristics they might have.

Our results, suggested the existence of two subscales, one of function (items 10 and 12) and another of interest (items 16 and 26).

The present study focused on four subscales: General Distress: Anxiety (11 items); General Distress: Depression (12 items); Anxious Arousal (17 items); and Anhedonic Depression (22 items comprised of 8 loss of interest items and 14 reverse-scored high positive affect items).

We investigate two effects of recent theoretical interest – item-context facilitation (occurring when items studied together are tested together) and test-position interference (with performance decreasing over a sequence of test trials) – and one effect of long-standing interest – decreasing performance as study-test lag increases.

These included the BDI Anhedonia scale (items #4 – loss of pleasure, item #12 – loss of interest, item # 15 loss of energy and item #21 – loss of sex drive) and the BDI Melancholy scale (item (#4 – loss of pleasure, item #5 – presence of guilt, item # 11 – irritability, item #12 – loss of energy, item #16b – early waking and item #21 – loss of sex drive).

Three analyses examined one single interest item: Akechi et al (2006); Payne et al (2007); and Mitchell et al (2008).

The interest item was followed by the open-ended question: 'Can you say why you would [definitely/probably/probably not/definitely not] take up the offer'.

The clippings covered various news stories and human-interest items.

At last count, there were well over 200 special-interest items "in play".