Pain and distress cannot be determined by measurements such as an electroencephalogram. Behavioral observations, however, are valid measures for assessing pain".
The ACMD's mephedrone report maintains an intellectually coherent structure, but is devoid of many of the fundamental measures for assessing any drug's dangers.
Hamacher, D., Singh, N., Van Dieen, J., Heller, M. & Taylor, W. Kinematic measures for assessing gait stability in elderly individuals: a systematic review.
Developing a set of measures for assessing data quality and determining appropriate thresholds will be important for ensuring high-quality 4DN data.
Connor Gorber S, Tremblay M, Moher D, Gorber B. A comparison of direct vs. self-report measures for assessing height, weight and body mass index: a systematic review.
There is a lack of objective and valid measures for assessing nursing clinical competence which could adversely impact patient safety.
In addition to providing new measures for assessing health, these assays also suggest pathological consequences of and metabolic shifts that may occur over the course of an infection.
Objective identification of an appropriate discretization scheme still remains a challenge, in part because of the lack of quantitative measures for assessing discretization quality, particularly prior to simulation.
The government could help establish standard measures for assessing quality, they wrote, and could remove legal obstacles to pooling data from private insurers.
There are no measures for assessing avian IQ, but the New Caledonian crow appears to be in a league of its own in performing tricks with sticks, something celebrated in a Guardian In Praise of leading article last year.
The appeal of widespread nonfinancial performance measures for assessing companies has been discussed for several decades, but never achieved despite continuing growth in assets and priorities poorly measured by GAAP accounting.
