We compared two sources of historic urban maps, used as input for model calibration, to determine how differences in definition and scale of urban extent affect the resulting spatial predictions from a widely used urban growth model for San Diego County, CA under three conservation scenarios.
A modified Readiness Ruler [ 40] containing a zero to ten scale of the extent to which participants think about their drinking as a problem or have addressed this issue will assess participants' motivational state regarding changing their drinking behaviour.
Selection of an appropriate scale is an important decision in study design in many branches of science, since perceived patterns often change with the scales of spatial extent or resolution of an analysis.
The order of magnitude is relative to the scales of analysis (extent) investigated by the box-counting, while the resolution is related to the grids chosen for the box-counting.
The diversity of sub-fields collecting data on very different scales of grain, extent, and time from marine microbes to whole terrestrial ecosystems make these highly challenging disciplines to integrate.
The level of overlap of the graded responses in the Likert scale, the extent of discrimination of each response and the item information values were used to select the appropriate questionnaire items.
The MORE system involves over 4000 physicians rating publications on a scale of relevance (the extent to which articles are relevant to practice) and a scale of newsworthiness (the extent to which articles contain news or something clinicians are unlikely to know).
Because people cannot get a clear picture of the scale or extent of this new threat or who will be at risk next it seems extremely frightening.
Jonathan Pershing, a senior negotiator for the US, said: "Those who don't know what the US is doing may not be informed of the scale and extent of the effort, but it's enormous".
HIV mandatory reporting is helping to improve assessment of the scale and extent of recent HIV transmission in the population [ 12], to visualize a better picture of HIV endemic situation in the city and to describe the epidemiological characteristics of emerging risk groups.
