We have demonstrated that the concept of an "orderly progression" of melanoma nodal metastases maintains its validity for the majority of patients with clinically enlarged nodal metastases.
It results from the quasi-religious devotion that the genre attracts, and that it needs in order to maintain its validity.
When a health measurement tool is translated, it must be translated well linguistically but also adapted culturally to maintain its validity.
They did, however, play a crucial role in discrediting iconoclasm, which had always relied on military success to maintain its validity.
This simple and robust heuristic was applicable to a wide range of conditions while maintaining its validity.
Although this complex situation makes it more difficult to extrapolate the role of different subsets of CD4+ effector cells, the validity of the Th1/Th2 paradigm seems to maintain its validity.
These relationships suggest that the HTA has reasonable validity; however, further research is required to modify the HTA in order to improve its validity while maintaining its feasibility.
Although institutional documents and pedagogical analysis do exist we lack a historical vision of this model to understand what were the guidelines for the contents of the 1979 curriculum and in how far it has maintained or not its validity as a curriculum model.
However, just like some still talk about Chinese food traditions as a monolithic unit with some regional variations, for some restaurant-goers the concept of "Africa" maintains some validity as a filter to make sense of unknown flavors and practices.
Davison maintains that school-based assessment derives its validity from building into its actual design the capacity for triangulation and the collection of multiple sources and types of evidence under naturalistic conditions over a lengthy period of time.
By contrast, Spinoza maintains that "the validity of an agreement rests on its utility, without which the agreement automatically becomes null and void" (TTP 16/182; cf. TP 2/12).
