This methods checks whether a respondent tends to agree (or disagree) with two statements known to define opposite ends of the same satisfaction continuum, e.g. 'Doctors/nurses carefully listen to what I have to say' and 'Doctors/nurses sometimes ignore what I tell them'.
The main theoretical interest of the article, aside from providing a formal spatial statement, is to define a distinction between aggregate forest transition (A-FT), when the area of all forests in a multi-regional system increases with the advent of trade relations, and regional forest transition (R-FT), when forest recovery is spatially constrained, and depends on forest losses elsewhere.
After the vote, Pelosi and progressive House members issued a series of statements that sought to define Republicans as the party of big bank favoritism and against middle-class interests.
Chances are that at some point in time she might tap explicitly into the music of her Zimbabwean heritage but for now her mission statement is simply to define her true artistic identity in one of the world's most diverse cities. "There's this London girl, first-generation girl who's grown up in England.
The "PICO" statement was used to define the search criteria for the review and identify the specifics of the patient population, intervention and the types of studies to be evaluated.
The AHA/NHLBI statement was used to define the components of metabolic syndrome [ 20]: elevated waist circumference, elevated triglycerides (≥150 mg/dL), reduced HDL-C (<40 mg/dL for men, <50 mg/dL for women), and elevated blood pressure (≥130/≥85 mmHg).
The AHA/NHLBI statement was used to define the metabolic syndrome, which had three or more of the following abnormality: elevated waist circumference, elevated triglycerides (≧150 mg/dL), reduced HDL-C (< 40 mg/dL for men, < 50 mg/dL for women), elevated blood pressure (BP≧130/≧85 mmHg), and elevated fasting glucose (≧100 mg/dL).
Basically, all Quartz programs can be reduced to the following set of basic statements, which can be used to define further macro statements as syntactic sugar: ● nothing.
MoveOn.org, a Democratic pressure group, is running endless ads quoting Mr McCain saying that America could be in Iraq for another hundred years, a statement that could come to define him much as John Kerry's statement that he voted in favour of funding the war before he voted against it defined him as a flip-flopper in 2004.The second issue is change.
Several statements and checklists try to define what qualifies a medical interview as "good" and come to divergent results.
