At age 11 an area deprivation score, range 1 (least) to 7 (most deprived), was derived from pupils' postal codes using the 'Carstairs' [ 27] index, a standard measure based upon census data.
Elizabeth Zhani, a spokeswoman for the Joint Commission, told me that their standards "were based upon both the emerging and compelling science of that time, and upon the consensus of a broad array of professionals".
Army body composition standards are based upon validated criteria; however, certain field-expedient methodologies (e.g., weight-for-height, body mass index [BMI]) may disqualify individuals from service who may otherwise excel on physical performance and military-relevant tasks.
Performance standards developed based upon the original test method would serve as the criteria against which the revised method would be compared.
caBIG compatibility standards are based upon caCORE resources, and thus the caCORE SDK has emerged as a key enabling technology for caBIG.
The World Trade Organization's Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures requires that pesticide standards be based upon "an assessment, as appropriate to the circumstances, of the risks to human, animal or plant life or health" and encourages compliance with the Codex [ 20, 21].
The power calculation was performed assuming unequal variances with estimates of the standard deviation based upon all replicates in the experiment; estimates for the standard deviations were on the log2 scale and included miRNAs that had Ct values of ≤35.
For training purposes, it was necessary to optimize the standard function based upon the networks parameters.
When Google Talk was envisioned, the planners decided to take advantage of the Jabber protocol an open-standard protocol based upon Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is used in a large variety of networks.
