In a study performed in Italy in the late 1990s, it was found that the Disease Activity Score was the best measure to discriminate between predefined states of low and high disease activity, in a sample of 202 patients [ 6].
In particular, the coordination between agents relies on the possibility of solving the rendezvous problem and to drive all the agents to a predefined final state.
Using conventional SM fibers in combination with a single, predefined polarization state would reduce system complexity, ghosts and could decrease the fiber length without sacrificing acquisition speed or image depth.
In a Markov model hypothetical individuals reside in predefined health states and can move from one health state to another in fixed time intervals.
In measuring preferences for health states, a predefined hypothetical health state can be explained to the respondent.
MAPSO develops an innovative strategy of diversity-measurement to evaluate the population distribution, and performs a real-time alternating strategy to determine one of two predefined evolutionary states, exploration and exploitation, in each iteration.
The search started from predefined initial states of the network nodes.
To estimate the EQ-5D index scores, the TTO method was used to value predefined health states of the EQ-5D descriptive system.
In the Ugandan study, the participants were allowed to reassess their own VAS scores after having responded to the TTO and SG questions for the predefined health states.
While the South African studies present estimates for the patients' real-time perceived health, the Lara study in addition ask people living with HIV/AIDS about their preferences for a set of predefined health states representing WHO clinical stages 2, 3 and 4, respectively [ 12].
