The officials said the items demonstrated that they had probably struck a gathering of insurgents, not civilians at a wedding party, as some local Iraqis and news organizations had said.
Pilot cognitive testing of survey items demonstrated that 50% protection was easier for study participants to comprehend than 60% usually ascribed to the protective effect of circumcision.
Initial patient validation of the eight items demonstrated that these items have adequate reliability and validity to assess the most important symptoms in this population.
The range of XRF readings for similar-appearing items demonstrated that for dose estimation it is not sufficient to simply quantify the different furnishings in a home.
This supports the unidimensionality of the combined CES-D13 and HADS-D items demonstrating that both scales measure the same underlying construct.
As stated in our previous paper, the cross-loading of the items supports this interpretation as the items demonstrate that they are tapping into these different (yet overlapping) concepts.
Once the contract cheating problem with the Unit had been identified, analysis of this assessment item demonstrated that some students were completing this task in an astonishingly short time (3 5 min), which implied misconduct was occurring.
Finally, no effect of genotype was seen in baseline olfactory behavior; all mice were able to locate a buried food item, demonstrating that Bax−/− mice do not have impaired olfaction per se.
Scores above zero on items 1 3 can signify risky or hazardous use; on items 4 6 (especially weekly or daily symptoms), scores above zero are indicative of the presence or incipience of alcohol dependence, while endorsement of items 7 10 demonstrates that alcohol-related harm is already occurring.
Close inspection of the three items demonstrating bias revealed potential interpretations that may have led to an underscoring of the item in the Welsh BDI-II (Table 3).
