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This resulted in 41 PRO-CTCAE items (presence, amount, frequency, severity and/or interference with daily activities) reflecting 22 symptomatic toxicities that were assessed at each clinic visit.
Two additional items, presence of a health-related activity limitation (number 8 in Appendix A) and needing help with personal care (number 9 in Appendix A), were treated as binary (yes/no) variables.
For two items (presence of graffiti and litter), the PARK tool had moderate agreement (69.34 and 67.30 % agreement, respectively) while the POST had good to excellent agreement (78.26 and 76.00 % agreement, respectively) for these same items.
This approximately 3-point difference is equivalent to one item with multiple response levels (e.g., noise, residence condition) changing 3 points, or the two dichotomous items (presence of liquor, cigarettes) changing from "no" to "yes" and one other item changing one category, etc.
As an evaluation scheme, Schulte et al. [ 10] described 5 scales of the 39 item HLQ, unfortunately without any confirmation by factor analysis of the following areas: Physical Well-being (4 items), Vitality (9 items), Mental behavior (10 items), Presence of Personality (9 items), Social Environment (7 items).
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The XPD for the brick wall is almost 11 dB less than antenna discrimination level, meaning that the item presence introduces an evident de-polarization effect, increasing cross-pol components.
It is worth noticing that by definition the mean XPD values may provide an evaluation of the only overall depolarization effects due to the item presence, without any thorough insight into the corresponding physical reasons, which can be different for the different OUTs.
We therefore follow the guidance provided by Weijters and Baumgartner [ 43], who advised against the use of negated reversals, and consequently we recommend the removal of item 9, which will result in a 4-item Presence of Meaning subscale.
Kappa coefficients could not be calculated for 11 of the items due to a lack of response variation (e.g., for the item "presence of aquatic activities in a pond").
The item presence of pedestrian safety features had low percent agreement (73.8 %) and the subjective general impression items, all had low agreement (ranging from 58.2 to 61.1 %) except for attractive for bicycling (81.5 %).
The item "Presence of spiritual assistant upon request" was suggested by an expert in the first round of Delphi, and then attained the third highest rating in the second round.
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