Although they are not validated in children, we explored their utility in comparison with the PVAS, the only validated vasculitis activity score for children.
However, there are studies of psycho-social factors in related conditions, particularly cystic fibrosis (CF), a disease with parallels to PCD, including a genetic basis, chronic respiratory difficulties and fertility problems, although the far worse prognosis in CF limit the utility of the comparison [ 17, 18].
The utility of the "comparison of extremes" design has already been exemplified in a series of reports.
It was expected that the acceptance-based measures would continue to show greater utility in comparison with the behavioural coping strategies in predicting important aspects of patient distress and functioning.
The resulting tool was shown to have improved reliability and utility in comparison with the US version [ 9].
The much-hyped vision of information technology's cloud computing future is often described with an analogy to the power industry: Just as we pipe in electricity from a central utility, the comparison goes, so will we someday pay for processing and storage as utility-like services in a central location, a model that's more efficient, more flexible and cheaper.
In the comparison of utility values between children and adults, some differences in results may be due to chance or due to the methods not being used correctly or consistently.
Conditions (2) and (3) for applying maximin are then satisfied in the comparison of justice as fairness with the principle of (average or aggregate) utility.
Introduction We aimed to investigate whether serum cholinesterase (SchE) activity could be helpful for the diagnosis of septic shock and to evaluate its utility in comparison with procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP).
Yet when we transform the ordinal utilities in a permissible way for instance by increasing the highest utility in the second pair from 5 to 10 the ordering of expectations reverses; now the comparison is between 3 and 5.
