One strength of this study was the ability to locate pesticide applications with relatively high resolution in both space and time, which allowed us to operationalize hypotheses referring to specific temporal periods of vulnerability.
QIs were operationalized as 'measurable items referring to the outcomes, processes or structure of care' [ 6, 7].
Moreover, UB staff has operationalized this concern and addressed it and also identified staff to perform outreach programs: "I am [mentions his title], and well in terms of interaction with the people, from time to time I do what you refer to as outreach.
One measure refers to distinguishing features, operationalized as the number of features a concept shares with only few other concepts (e.g., "moos/cow").
Finally, to operationalize negative affectivity, we referred to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS [ 30], German version [ 31]).
It can, however, be operationalized in both capacity and performance measures, where capacity refers to what a patient can do in a standardized environment, and performance to what a person does in daily life [ 18].
"Susan Rice operationalized the N.S.C. during the last administration," Bannon said in a statement Wednesday, referring to President Barack Obama's national security adviser.
Therefore, I refer to their work where IP competence has been conceptualized, operationalized, and scaled up by IRT procedures with the purpose of comparing groups within a large-scale assessment (LSA).
The last limitation refers to the validity of the way in which we have operationalized patient-centred care.
Loneliness is a construct related to social support which refers to one's subjective feelings of loneliness and feelings of social isolation (operationalized in this study by the UCLA Loneliness Scale, which includes questions such as how often one feels alone, feels that no one understands, or feels unable to reach out or communicate with others; UCLA-LS; Russell 1996).
