The two panels that describe increased levels of expression in "aposymbiotic" tissue showed very similar patterns in GO assignments.
This is a category scale in which simple verbal expressions, that describe increasing degrees of breathlessness in exercise, are linked to numbers (range from 0 = nothing at all to 10 = maximal).
Additionally, the caBIG™ program provides a set of compatibility guidelines that describe increasing levels of maturity (from Legacy, through Bronze, Silver and Gold) in these areas [ 3].
Improved 25(OH D status was observed later in life, a finding that may reflect the previously described increased use of vitamin D-containing supplements in such populations.
After becoming a historian, she wrote a book about LBJ that described his increasing isolation in the White House from anyone who might tell him an unpleasant truth: "Self-deceptions multiplied in this hall of distorting mirrors," she wrote, as quoted by U.S. News & World Report in its current cover story on "Fifteen Presidents Who Changed the World".
This is in agreement with studies that describe no increased rate of obstetric intervention in RCT of fetal movement counting or in quality improvement studies for women with RFM [ 20, 21].
Most women used words that described an increase in strength of movements throughout their pregnancy regardless of gestation.
Although the choice of a particular numerical scale in an application of IRT is arbitrary, there are mathematical results on monotonicity properties that describe how increasing scale values are associated with increased expected outcomes on task performance and other variables (e.g. Junker and Sijtsma 2000).
"Rebellion in the Cornbelt: American Farmers Beat Their Ploughshares Into Swords" was the title of a December 1932 article in Harper's that described the farmers' increasing desperation and militancy.
In a review on the public health burden of obesity of Visscher et al [ 7], a number of studies was included that described an increased risk for CVD, all cause mortality, type 2 diabetes mellitus and stroke with a BMI ≤ 22.5 (kg/m) in women and a BMI ≤ 23 (kg/m) in men.
