IRT makes a strong assumption of local item independence, i.e., patients' responses to the ADAS-Cog items are determined solely by their underlying extents of cognitive impairment.
Overseas recruitment of nurses has more than quadrupled in a year, underlying the extent of the difficulty hospitals are encountering in their efforts to boost nurse numbers.
There are more than 4 million SNPs in the human genome, 200,000 of which occur in coding regions, underlying the extent of genetic variability and its potential positive or negative effects on the host antimicrobial defense [13], [14].
Management of malignant pleural effusions depends on the underlying malignancy, extent of disease, potential effectiveness of treatment and performance status.
Finally (and to some extent underlying the other two dichotomies) is the dichotomy between the secularist and the religious.
Robust monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy help to understand the extent underlying grievances are addressed when CPA provisions are implemented.
In this paper we aim to explore to what extent underlying data published as part of QOF can be used to estimate smoking prevalence within practice populations.
Nevertheless, dysfunctional subclasses often coexist alongside decreased HDL-C, so that a low HDL-C level in the ratio may reflect to some extent underlying qualitative defects [ 52].
To determine to what extent underlying data published as part of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) can be used to estimate smoking prevalence within practice populations and local areas and to explore the usefulness of these estimates.
Projecting beyond the molecular mechanisms of single circadian, circalunar, circatidal or seasonal/circaannual rhythms, the next level of functional and evolutionary understanding will be to discern how these different types of rhythms are molecularly connected, and to what extent underlying molecular clocks share the same components.
