Dr. Hickok said the Education Department intended to clarify the law in drafting regulations, and to send a signal to states and local districts about the validity of alternative certification programs.
We speculate about the validity of alternative methodologies for informing particular policy questions.
Conversely, such experimental data also provide a test of the validity of alternative choices for the molecular models used in simulations, indicating their possible deficiencies.
Other approaches have effectively been used to assess the validity of alternative research designs, whose outcomes focus on function and patient-reported outcomes.
Some galleries intentionally use more than one depiction of the tree of life to emphasize to visitors the validity of alternative approaches or different elements (Diamond 2005), but often it simply reflects the reality of long-lived exhibits in museum settings.
This paper explores central issues for accurate and efficient vulnerability assessment of such bridges under hurricane loads, including the validity of alternative surrogate models for probabilistic performance prediction as well as the modeling uncertainty introduced by adopting simplified loading profiles in the vulnerability assessment.
The topics of research on research ethics fall into five major categories: Theory, method and design considerations that precede research, including (a) values and epistemology of scientists, (b) validity of alternative methods, (c) equitable treatment of research subjects and populations, (d) risk and benefit of alternative approaches.
Validity of alternative definitions of remission requires a separate study.
The present paper examines the predictive validity of alternative duration requirements of 2, 4, 6 and 12 months of remission to define recovery.
This study demonstrated that the RV, which is often used to compare the validity of alternative PRO measures, may be statistically tested via the bootstrap confidence interval.
