For items programmed into the system, the observers documented improvement, for the others no improvement was observed.
The size of GNPs was measured with a Veleta digital camera using the iTEM program, version 5.2 (Olympus Soft Imaging Solutions, Germany).
"No matter if the parents were intended to be background, with this specific item in this particular program they might simply be foreground because of press attention to it and parental attention to it".
Respondents offered a broad mix of answers, from budget line-item programs they want to cut (like foreign aid or military spending), to infamous examples of government spending that appear foolish (like robotic squirrels and $100 hammers), to more general references to corruption, fraud and earmarks.
These participants also showed significantly higher satisfaction scores for CSQ item 3 (program meeting their needs), item 6 (the services helped them to deal with their problems) and item 8 (willingness to return for treatment in the future).
Items on Program A (opening Tuesday night) include "ChopEniana," the troupe's retitled version of Michel Fokine's dreamily romantic creation "Les Sylphides"; "Patterns in Space," in which the men take their chances on Merce Cunningham's theories of chance choreography; and "La Vivandi?," which requires big male feet to galumph through dainty 19th-century steps.
At this stage of the process, no other specific action items or program details were introduced.
All analyses were done with the Mokken Scale Analysis for Polytomous items (MSPWIN) program [ 59].
Item-analysis was conducted using Ideal 4.1, an item-analysis program (IDEAL-HK, Hong Kong, China) [ 27] and all other data analysis was conducted using Stata version 9.2 (Stata Corporation Inc., College Station, TX, USA) [ 28].
While the bills have many of the same elements, the exact amounts spent on similar items and programs vary.
