To overcome the small sample size challenge while maintaining psychometric soundness, we propose an innovative Ordinal Bayesian Instrument Development (OBID) method that seamlessly integrates expert and participant data in a Bayesian item response theory (IRT) with a probit link model framework.
Horses must remain sound of limb to ensure lung soundness, and they must remain sound of lung to achieve and maintain limb soundness.
By contrast, the main point of prudential regulation is to maintain the soundness of banks by controlling their capital levels or the investments they can make.
In other words, the role of a story is to maintain the soundness of the spiritual bridge that has been constructed between the past and the future.
"Prompt action by Congress to raise the debt ceiling is necessary to ensure success in our efforts to combat terrorism, continue the economic recovery and maintain the soundness of federal government securities," the Treasury Department statement on the debt limit said.
When producing a pressure hull, periodic inspection, repair, and maintenance are conducted to maintain its soundness.
At fault was the blind spot generated by the doctrine that adopting private sector "best practice" was a sufficient basis for regulation, and that maintaining the apparent soundness of individual institutions is enough to ensure the soundness of the system as a whole.
"This is important to maintaining the safety and soundness of JPMorgan," Ina R. Drew, then the head of the chief investment office, told comptroller officials, recalled one person who attended the meeting.
They were tasked both with maintaining banks "safety and soundness" and with protecting consumers from fraud and deception.
The court unanimously recognized in 1982 that it would be "difficult, if not impossible" to maintain the financial soundness of a Social Security system from which people could opt out.
