Only the standardized phrases for encouragement[ 13] were used during the test.
Standardized phrases for speaking to the patient were used, and patients were encouraged to reach their maximum walking distance.
Only the standardized phrases for encouragement (e.g., "keep going," "you are doing well") and announcement of time remaining were given to the participants.
Next the sequences proceeded through mapping to Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium database of standardized phrases describing functional information of known gene products, and finally GO functional annotation was completed using cutoff value 10^-3.
These standardized codes were assigned to the same or similar phrases.
Most of the sources of variation in pulmonary function assessment such as motivation and effort and body position were controlled by following American thoracic society (ATS) guidelines and using standardized verbal encouragement phrases (17, 19, 20).
In contrast, females responded similarly to computer-modified playbacks of courtship songs of solitary and paired males with standardized rate of phrases and amplitudes; however, when females were additionally allowed to contact with anesthetized males they spent more time close to bigger males, irrespective of the acoustic parameters of courtship songs.
See Additional file 1 for a description of select standardized tools as well as phrasing and coding for single item measures.
When the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, in "The Life of the Mind," wrote, "Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality," she was writing about Adolf Eichmann, but the sentence is valid far beyond that one case, and far beyond the time to which he belonged.
