If his success here carries with it undertones of a Guttmann‑esque validation of the sport's merits, this was always unlikely to detain either Jovane, gracious in defeat, or a thoroughly involved three-quarter full-house at the ExCeL on an opening day that confirmed, above all, the pure competitive appeal of this grand old indigenous Paralympic sport.
The validation of these assays therefore merits urgent investigation.
For validation of the technique, the following figures of merit were evaluated: accuracy, precision, detection and quantification limits, linearity, sensibility and selectivity.
The figure of merit of this external validation is the correct classification rate.
These findings provide proof of concept for the premise that rationalized combinatorial targeting of distinct populations in heterogeneous tumors may improve therapeutic effect, and merit clinical validation of AXL-107-MMAE in both treatment-naive and drug-resistant cancers in mono- or combination therapy.
The Kleihauer Betke test can be performed manually with stained blood smears or using a flow cytometry-based method and the technical merit and validation of the used method may be of influence on test performance.
Additional file 1 provides more details about model validation and the computation of the employed figures of merit.
The serum assay to detect EGFR mutations circumvents the need for tumour tissue and merits further validation of the use of serum DNA to detect EGFR mutations as a predictor of response to, and survival on gefitinib in prospective studies.
Given that sex-based differences in immune parameters are well recognized and recent evidence suggests differences in microbiota composition between sexes, validation of the effectiveness of prebiotics merits assessment in both males and females.
Validation of the transmission Raman model was focused on figures of merit from three independent batches manufactured at pilot scale.
The accuracy, sensitivity and specificity are calculated for each validation fold and the mean and standard deviation were used as figures of merit.
