An ordinal five-level Likert scale with variations between positive and negative statements was used for answering eleven questions on 'Opinion and Task Perspective', five of the questions on 'Treatment and Experiences', and six questions on 'Characteristics of the GP'.
Non-responders possibly would have responded differently on questions on characteristics of complaints, general health perception and psychological assessment.
This comprised 20 questions on the GP's 'Opinion and Task Perspective', 19 questions on 'Treatment and Experiences', and 27 questions on 'Characteristics of the General Practitioner and the Practice Organisation'.
The questionnaires also included some questions on characteristics of the providers, and at follow-up 1 there was also a question about the providers' views on the usefulness of the educational programme.
This information was used to examine our second question of what characteristics of caregivers are associated with job satisfaction.
This concept raises the question of whether characteristics of the bacterial strain itself, such as propensity for cellular invasion, predispose the host to recurrent disease.
The correspondence between the calculated and experimental relative abundances of the five model proteins in ER to Golgi raises the question of what characteristics of the proteins might be responsible for this result.
Now all that's left is the question of its characteristic hue.
It can be an indication of a range of issues, such as the design, topic and placement of the question, the characteristics of the participant and the mode of data collection [ 15].
Ab initio methods based on density functional theory and molecular dynamics can help address open questions of material characteristics that cannot be extracted explicitly by experiments.
