The participants rated their answers in a scale of 1 5 according to the rate of agreement with certain phrases or according to the incidence of experiencing phenomenon asked in the questionnaire.
And migration — already "on the scale of Syria," according to the U.N. refugee agency — is likely to escalate.
For the area with no direct EV historical data, a system dynamics (SD) method is implemented to simulate and forecast the scale of EVs, according to main factors that impact EV scale development greatly.
The "scale of shipments," according to government officials quoted in the piece, "was very large," though some in the Syrian opposition expressed uneasiness at the time, telling the Times that "whoever was vetting which groups receive the weapons was doing an inadequate job".
Toxiciy was graded on a scale of 1 4 according to the WHO criteria.
Each question is scored on a scale of 0 3 according to the frequency of the symptom, and the total score ranges from 0 to 60.
The original domain scores were transformed to a scale of 0 100 according to the equation in the published guidelines [ 26, 27].
Cell infiltration was scored on a scale of 0 3 according to the number of affected joints (0: none, 1: <2, 2: 3–5; 3: >5 joints), and the amount of inflammatory cells in the synovial cavity (exudate) and synovial tissue (infiltrate) was also recorded.
The entire tissue section was scored, and the extent of staining was determined on a scale of 0 5 according to the estimated percentage of cells stained: 0 ≤ 10%; 1 = 11 25%; 2 = 26 50%; 3 = 51 75%; 4 = 76 90%, and 5 ≥ 90%.
ALDH1A1 and MMP-9 staining intensities were rated on a scale of 0 3 according to the percentage of positive tumor (0, < 5% positive cells; 1, 5-10%; 2, 11-50%; or 3, > 50%).
The HER2 status of the tumour cells was semiquantitatively scored on a scale of 0 3 according to the level of HER2 protein expression (Wolff et al, 2007) and was classified into three categories: 0 or 1, 2, and 3. Survival was evaluated using a median follow-up period of 98 months (range: 63 134 months) until March 2011.
