We employed the Item-characteristic Curve (ICC) to evaluate the profile of each item within the scale and to assess the relationship between the predicted patients' response to an individual item and the underlying construct (expectations).
All domains have shown items with strong association with the underlying construct (expectation), two to three items from each domain, may be considered as good candidates that differentiate between patients' responses.
For this reason, we also employed the alternative concept of independent action to construct additivity expectations.
Therefore, the Monte-Carlo strategy is to sample, sequentially or in parallel, the random function A ˜ in order to construct this expectation.
In summary, men's health beliefs and behaviours are both conditioned by socially constructed expectations of what it means to be a man and are deliberately enacted by men to demonstrate their 'manhood', taking an active role in constructing dominant norms of masculinity.
Beyond the physical determinants of sex, the term gender is more commonly defined as the deeply rooted, socio-culturally constructed expectations of women and men that influence their behaviours and opportunities in society.
Exercises and simulations afford opportunities for agency representatives to develop, practice and review technical, management and team skills under realistic circumstances and to construct realistic performance expectations, and provide opportunities for developing creative problem solving competencies (within and between teams).
This closely relates to the core category we came to construct: incongruence of expectations and perceptions of needs.
In practice, we start with initial values of θ 0 to construct the conditional expectation Q θ, θ 0 which is maximized with respect to parameters to update θ (θ 1 ), and then repeat the E- and the M-steps iteratively until the parameter estimates converge.
The notion of a hierarchy is central here because it allows the brain to construct its own top-down prior expectations about sensory samples from the world.
To construct teaching resources to value skills and expectations individually and continuously.
