■ Arabian Nights: The Restless One (winner) ■ The Assassin ■ The Club ■ A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence ■ A War The Academy's arcane voting procedures in this category — allowing one film per country, as selected by national committees — means many of the year's best foreign-language films (The Tribe or Girlhood, for example) aren't even in the hunt.
But the question of what four other films will also qualify is less clear, and the likelihood of some surprises is high, in part because of the strong field, but also because of the Academy's unusual voting procedures in this category.
The asylum procedure results in the categories of recognized vs. refused asylum seekers.
In our view, alignment efforts by the formal procedures match with strategies in the category Institutional Re-design.
In the category "Procedures to be performed without direct supervision", 15 procedures were listed and students were expected by our faculty to be competent to perform independently all procedures listed (Table 4).
When procedures were classified according to their potential to be painful, the number of procedures in each category did not differ significantly between 1995-1997 and 2005-2007.
Estimates of the mean and the standard deviation of the level of functional status, obtained using different procedures for dealing with responses in the category 'not applicable', are given in Table 3.
During the period examined, Polish nurses devoted a total of 163280.1 sec to the performance of the category "basic procedures" in the TISS-28 scale, which constituted 39.67% of the total time devoted to nursing in the units, where the study was conducted.
Six procedures in the general and pediatric surgery category were more commonly performed and were available at all facilities, consisting of abscess incision and drainage, hydrocele repair, hernia repair, appendectomy, laparotomy, and male circumcision (Table 7).
The root mean squared difference (RMSD) is defined as where and are estimates of β i, i = 1, 2,..., n, obtained under two different procedures for dealing with item responses in the category 'not applicable'.
