Scores are derived by summing the answers (five-stage scale) of the appropriate items.
Yvonne Helle, the UN Development Programme's Haiti director, said while the lack of access made getting precise numbers impossible at this stage, the scale of the damage was clearly enormous.
Boys had been recruited at age 8 or 9 years, and pubertal stage was assessed yearly based on testicular volume and genital maturity according to the Tanner Stages, a scale of physical development.
The history of deportations and human rights abuses committed by Russians against Chechens has been well documented, yet the staging and scale of the sieges at the Dubrovka Theater, Beslan, and other Chechen attacks ring clearer in the public memory.
Although there are several growth stage scales that describe the maturity of cereal grasses, they have similar physiological descriptions and terms.
A three-stage scaling model of the source parameters for crustal earthquakes in Japan has been constructed by Irikura and Miyake (2001) and Murotani et al. (2015).
Although tentative at this stage, the scaling of ta and <img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0015665.e025.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> may be the product of an as yet unidentified optimum ratio for feathers to wing-skeleton length within the biomechanical and aerodynamic constraints acting upon the scaling of b (M1/3) [1].
But we are reaching the stage where the scale of the event is such that it feels as if we're playing catch-up all the time".
Patients with cirrhosis, arthropathy, and diabetes represent the morbidity associated with clinically manifest disease in HH and are classified in the fourth stage of the scale of HH phenotypic expression [ 18].
During the bicycle ergometer test the subject must report his/her subjective rate of exertion at the end of each stage using a scale of 6 to 20 [ 25].
The qualitative Tanner score was converted into a quantitative variables (pubertal stage by Tanner Scale of both the sexual organ and the breast development): T1 = 0, T2 = 0, T3 = 1, T4 = 2, T5 = 3.
