Sentence examples for passage difficulties from inspiring English sources

Therefore, in the author's opinion, the presence of ARSA only justifies surgical intervention in those patients in whom the classical pattern of solid feeding passage difficulties "dysphagia lusoria" is present.

The first factor investigated for its effect on item difficulty is the reading passage difficulty.

Three factors are considered for controlling item difficulty: (1) reading passage difficulty, (2) semantic similarity between the correct answer and distractors, and (3) the distractor word difficulty level.

The three factors are (1) reading passage difficulty (RPD), (2) similarity between the correct answer and distractors (SIM), and (3) distractor word difficulty level (DWD).

Table 1 Investigated factors ID Factor Level   RPD Reading passage difficulty Low High SIM Semantic similarity between correct answer and distractor Low High DWD Distractor word difficulty level Low High.

Because we adopt only two levels of reading passage difficulty, two fixed sources for retrieving reading passages were used: the Times in Plain English http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/ for low (easy) reading passages and the New York Times http://nytimes.com/ for high (difficult) reading passages4.

In this study, we propose a method that controls the item difficulty using three predetermined factors related to the question components: (1) reading passage difficulty (RPD), (2) semantic similarity between the correct answer and distractors (SIM), and (3) distractor word difficulty level (DWD).

The complex topology of protein channels and the transient nature of the ligand passage pose difficulties in the modeling of the ligand entry/escape pathways by canonical molecular dynamics simulations.

Most tales, at some level, present a rite of passage through difficulty to maturity, awareness or resolution.

Next to some relevant bible passages, the difficulties in the decision-making process and the psychological consequences of the decision were discussed.

The growth and survival rate of our ccRCC cultures were in agreement with those reported by other authors [ 14] and proved that our primary cultures grow for the first four passages without difficulties [ 18].