To measure acquisition bleaching, intensity measurements were collected from four non-bleached control regions, of the same size as the bleach regions.
The Children's Auditory Verbal Learning Test (CAVLT-II; Talley, 1993) measured acquisition and retention of a list of 16 concrete nouns.
Nonsymmetric confidence intervals were calculated to measure acquisition and clearance, as these are more appropriate when observed percentages are low (20 ).
To assess learning, we calculated discrimination indices to measure acquisition of excitatory responding for sucrose during the light (i.e., an increase above baseline in time spent nose poking).
First, the optimal study design to estimate individual-level effects of antibiotics on colonizing organisms such as VRE and beta-lactam resistant S. pneumoniae is to measure acquisition and loss rates in an observational cohort or experimental study where subjects are serially cultured before, during, and after antibiotic therapy (23, 33 ).
Machines have become quite good at measuring the acquisition of arithmetical operations, but they are much less good at quantifying such skills as creativity or flexibility — let alone measuring less easily definable aspects of a humanistic education, such as literary appreciation or artistic sensibility or the development of empathy.
We exploit the fact that the MSES uses a diversified approach to collect food data by measuring consumption, acquisition and stocks using both, diaries and recall interviews.
Challenges in competencies related to provision of FP services were not region-specific and included: Teaching and measuring the acquisition of 'attitudes' as compared to more concrete knowledge and skills.
Odour learning acquisition During training, we measured the learning acquisition curve.
Thus, we did not find a significant measurable effect of sleep in enhancing performance beyond that measured at acquisition (see [4], [7], [15] for examples of sleep-dependent memory enhancement of other forms of memory).
The Institute of Supply Management's purchasing managers index (PMI) – which measures the acquisition of goods and services – stood at 49.8% in July, barely moving from June's reading of 49.7%.
