A number of newer tools have included new measures of oral health literacy including numeracy and oral health conceptual knowledge however tools that measure important indicators of oral health literacy such as service navigation are rare.
A new generation of clinical trials specifically designed for elderly subjects is needed, and should include the development and validation of new measures and tools for determining biological age.
Further measurements at the different steps of drinking water treatment allow the assessment of the removal efficiencies for the algae themselves, their toxins as well as algae-released drinking-water-relevant taste & odour (T and O) compounds/precursors. New measuring tools are developed in order to assess the integrity status of algae cells and thus the risk of toxin release.
Important criteria that must be met when developing a new measuring tool are presented in detail.
Since then, this 'plot' together with the associated analysis has become the recognised statistical methodology for studies validating new measuring or monitoring tools against a reference technique [ 2, 3].
The shift from a standard 'caliper and protractor' analysis on plaster casts to a virtual three-dimensional analysis allows the introduction of new tools and measures in addition to the classic linear measures (transverse dimensions, arch depth, and arch perimeter).
The advent of new tools for measuring and manipulating neurons, alongside the inclusion of multiple new animal models and sensory systems has led to the generation of many novel datasets.
Another session highlighted several new tools, measures, and methods that have been developed to help reliably assess environment obesity connections, such as assessments of park characteristics, urban design walkability, and aspects of the "nutrition environments" (the quality and availability of foods, and types of food outlets in discrete settings such as schools and neighborhoods).
Now, laser technology, some of it borrowed from the telecommunications industry, is giving engineers and scientists crucial new tools to measure leaks and track them to their source.
In today's issue of Science, researchers describe a new tool that measures this fungal power and which may help develop better fungicides.
