The rigors of elevation — lower oxygen levels, colder nights — force the plants to grow more slowly, creating harder, denser beans that produce the vibrant, slightly acidic flavors that are generally considered indispensable to a great cup.
Because trials of lower methodologic rigor continue to be published, the evidence-based practitioner must evaluate new evidence from the medical literature carefully before incorporating that evidence into their clinical practice.
The latter point, appearing to lower academic rigor, is something to consider as more and more schools rush to expand questionable online degree programs and other fuzzy credential pathways.
In terms of rigor, this review scored lower because it lacks information about the number of included studies and the type of health professionals who are targeted in each study.
But an unintended consequence of the law has been that many states have lowered the rigor of their standards and the difficulty of their tests to avoid sanctions the law imposes on failing schools, a process Secretary Duncan has called a "race to the bottom".
The details surprised many — including the low pay for new pilots; the rigors of flying at lower altitudes, and thus often in worse weather than pilots on longer routes; the difficulty in getting enough sleep; the relative inexperience of pilots, whose training standards are the same, but whose skills may not be.
The curtain rose on the very peculiar and entirely haunting ritual in which 17 women stand on flat feet and all in unison, following the seemingly secret dictates of the music, work their way through a series of upper-body gestures that develop inexorably into the lower-body rigor of ballet.
On the other hand, some decisions made during the revision process, in order to comply with some of the reviewer's comments, have indirectly lowered the rigor of the analysis.
The two live-chilled groups showed a substantial delay in time to onset of rigor mortis, and had a lower maximum rigor score than untreated and crowded groups.
"Are we creating tests of different content, at a lower level of rigor, for kids with disabilities?
