By ensuring that every object serves as both a familiar and a novel item, the influence of any individual object that might be particularly attractive or aversive to the test animals becomes nullified as any such effects should be counteracted across subsequent trials.
The items reflecting the influence of the unknown flow disturbances in the receiver dynamics are taken as the components of the "lumped disturbances" together with the items which have no linear correlation with the virtual control variables.
Three items examined the influence of mentoring dentists including a family dentist, dental specialist, or faculty member.
Contributing recently to a BBC World Service item about the influence of the new media on the world of literature and publishing, Godden noted that, when she performed her first gig 20 years ago, publicity consisted of photocopying fliers and sticking them together with Sellotape; now it means ensuring a constant flow of new and tantalising information on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
One issue arose with a subjective norm item regarding the influence of family and friends on CRC screening decision-making.
Epidemiological and large scale treatment studies within smoking research have utilized many one-item screening items to examine the influence of current depressive symptoms on smoking behavior and quitting.
For instance, a pupil and an experienced teacher, when reading aloud a transcript from an earlier lesson, will place the tonic foot on different lexico-grammatical items because of the influence of their view of the contexts of situation and culture (Halliday and Hasan 1985); i.e. they make different assumptions.
ASTA part III is on HRQoL: the ASTA HRQoL scale has 13 items and describes the influence of arrhythmia on daily life.
In our review of HRQoL instruments we could not identify any instrument containing items to capture the influence of chronic disease on MLCDs or any long term impact on patients' lives [ 1].
The third item (masking) assesses the influence of performance bias on the study results.
Complex contagion represents spread of items under the influences of intensive, repeated and valued contacts.
