Automated blood pressure devices are frequently introduced in maternity care without prior validation for their accuracy in pregnancy.
First, it was a limitation of the study that we were not able to perform a prior validation of the headache diagnostic questionnaire in its Nepali translation.
This track would require only that an author obtain prior "validation" of an article from two members of a large panel of scientists.
Despite its popularity the method can be quite inaccurate when its criteria are applied to other species and populations without prior validation.
Based upon the prior validation studies (Bauer et al. 2004, 2008), a mood entry less than 40 was considered depression, 40 60 euthymia, and greater than 60 hypomania/mania.
While this dataset had only two MRI sessions, rather than 10, this dataset used an anatomical MRI sequence that was optimized for brain morphology research (based on prior validation work assessing cortical thickness and subcortical volume) [7, 68].
After its prior validation on two-dimensional (2D) structures, the GA was tuned and improved in order to obtain structural elements with minimum weights that satisfy the ultimate limit states of the applicable building code.
Expected response characteristics for the individual FNMS detectors, as well as the response characteristics of the entire FNMS, were determined using Monte Carlo simulations based on prior validation experiments.
Overall algorithm performance was good, capturing a wide range of disturbance and recovery phenomena, even when evaluated against a truth set that contained new targets (recovery and stability) with much subtler thresholds of change than available from prior validation datasets.
While this prior validation work suggests that reliability for cortical thickness and subcortical volume should be higher for this dataset, it is not clear how these improvements to volumetric measures may influence shape-related measures of morphology (i.e., gyrification and fractal dimensionality).
Numerous prior validation studies referenced medical records data.
