A goniometer (MSD pocket goniometer, baseline 180 degree, transparent plastic) was placed on the skin markers with the centre of the goniometer at the metatarsophalangeal joint, one goniometer-arm line crossing the centre of the mark on the shaft of the first metatarsal and the other goniometer-arm line crossing the centre of the mark of the proximal phalanx of the hallux, respectively.
KHN examined the 20 pharmaceutical firms included in the S&P 500, 14 of which were transparent — in varying degrees — about giving money to patient groups.
As my colleague Peter Bergen has documented, one transparent measure of the degree of pressure Al Qaeda feels in its homeland along the Afghan-Pakistani border is the number of media releases it has been able to organize.
We offer some recommendations for best practice and outline simple analyses to facilitate transparent reporting of the degree to which a given set of findings may be affected by motion-related artefact.
We would argue that the fieldwork, analysis and interpretation [ 46] were sufficiently transparent to warrant the degree of methodological rigour advocated by Barbour [ 7, 17] and that the findings were therefore an accurate reflection of what was being studied.
The quality checklist was used as a scale, although the criticism has been made that these scales do not provide a transparent estimation of the degree of bias [ 84].
A related concern expressed by this audience was that the metric was not transparent enough about the degree of dispersion of individual patient scores to accurately portray performance: "You've got no concept of what your range is…your spread could be enormous or could be really tight.
Forty simulated curved canals (42 degrees) in transparent resin blocks were used and separated into 4 experimental groups, 10 canals each.
Alchemy's yellows are in general associated with final applications and can be visually discriminated in a yellow1 type, a thick paste paint, and a yellow2 type, a liquid and transparent paint applied in different degree of thinning over white, silver or black areas (Fig. 2).
These electronic shades are an example of switchable windows: windows equipped to change from transparent to deeply tinted by degrees and back again when a voltage is applied.
