We use several continuous outcome measures: psychosexual knowledge, the scales of the Teen Transition Inventory (TTI), insight in acceptable and inappropriate sexual behaviors, self-esteem, and concerns about the future.
Dr. Keilloh, then a 28-year-old captain in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, tried unsuccessfully to revive Mr. Mousa, but denied knowledge of the scale of the man's injuries.
"It was possible even then, with my small knowledge of the scale of events overtaking all of us, to guess that these pathetic laborers would die in enormous numbers and be the biggest victims of the railway," Mr. Lomax wrote in his 1995 memoir, "The Railway Man".
The choice of methods and measures to use for a given assessment should vary according to the desired knowledge and the scale of the assessment.
Tanzania's VACS was commissioned after the 2006 United Nations Secretary General's World Report on Violence against Children called on individual countries to deepen their knowledge of the scale of the problem.
Although the amount of connectivity among reserves is an important factor in the design of a network, many reserve networks are designed without knowledge of the scale of dispersal for the protected species.
The goal of cellPACK is to create rigorous structural models of HIV and its interactions with host cells, which frame our current knowledge on the scale of the entire virion, and in its cellular context in a consistent format.
We discuss the most current knowledge on (1) the scale of Hg emission impacts (local-regional-global); (2) the relative importance of geogenic vs anthropogenic emission sources; (3) the recovery response time for ecosystems after emission controls (years-decades-centuries); and (4) the chronic low dose health effects of dietary exposure of CH3Hg on human populations.
The lower number of knowledge constraints may reflect the scale of our analysis (which focused on decision points in pre-defined pathways); new knowledge and participatory approaches would likely yield a richer set of scenarios.
They collected different sorts of knowledge, represented them vividly on the scale of a tabletop, and made that representation available as a resource for urban reform: a plan and a plan of action.
