The consensus report concludes that " although the data remain incomplete, National Assessment meeting participants concurred that methadone tablets and / or diskettes distributed through channels other than opioid treatment programs most likely are the central factor in methadone-associated mortality.

The WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems ( WHO-AIMS ), the WHO Quality of Life Instrument ( WHOQOL ), and the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment ( SARA ) provide guidance for data collection.

* Dapper / DChart — plot and download model data referenced by the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4 ) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The ratings were based on data from CMS, the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ( CAHPS ), Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS ) data, and the Health Outcomes Survey ( HOS ).

* Knowledge Assessment Methodology-interactive country-level data for the information society and knowledge economy

* Dapper / DChart – plot and download model data referenced by the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4 ) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

* Dapper / DChart – plot and download model data referenced by the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4 ) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Other approaches include standards-based assessments such as Washington Assessment of Student Learning, which emphasize devising experiments at early grades at a level traditionally not covered until college ( traditionally, students conducted rather than designed experiments ), based on mock data with very little testing of factual knowledge.

Collaborative efforts have resulted in an open project called FlowCAP ( Flow Cytometry: Critical Assessment of Population Identification Methods ,) to provide an objective way to compare and evaluate the flow cytometry data clustering methods, and also to establish guidance about appropriate use and application of these methods.

The Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation ( FACE ) program publishes occupational fatality data.

Specific experiments included: Environmental Radiation Measurements to ascertain ionizing radiation levels aboard Mir ; Greenhouse-Integrated Plant Experiments, to study effect of microgravity on plants, specifically dwarf wheat ; and Assessment of Humoral Immune Function During Long-Duration Space Flight, to gather data on effect of long-term spaceflight on the human immune system and involving collection of blood serum and saliva samples.

In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE ), City University rose to 45th place, up 14 since the previous RAE in 2001 when it was ranked at 59, according to Times Higher Education analysis of HEFCE's ( Higher Education Funding Council for England ) RAE data, from 159 universities or colleges.

Her work included research on the productivity of the algal component of cold desert soil crusts in the Great Basin Desert south of Snowville, Utah ; algal removal with intermittent sand filtration and prediction of minimum river flow necessary to maintain certain game fish ; the effects of increased salinity and oil shale leachates on freshwater phytoplankton productivity ; development of the Surface Impoundment Assessment document and computer program ( FORTRAN ) for current and future processing of data from surface impoundments in Utah ; and design and implementation of an algal bioassay center and a workshop for bioassay techniques for the Intermountain West.

Since 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an Annual Homeless Assessment Report, which reports to Congress the number of individuals and families who are homeless in the previous year, both sheltered and unsheltered, in order to standardize data and collection processes for government officials and service providers.

Perhaps the most accurate, comprehensive, and current data on homelessness in the United States is reported annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) in the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress ( AHAR ), released in June of every year since 2007.

The most recent Point-In-Time Count by HUD took place the second two weeks of January 2011, and data reported at that time and gathered from Continuum of Care providers in local communities will be used to compile the 2010 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to be released in the middle of 2011.

#: Assessment data must be clustered and interpreted before the nurse can plan, implement or evaluate a plan to support patient care

Once the biometric enrollment is complete, the service provider submits the collected data to the TSA which performs a Security Threat Assessment ( STA ) of the applicant.

The achievement gap, as noted in the trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has become a focal point of education reform efforts.

The Internal Assessment for Biology includes the submission of a number of lab reports covering certain skills like ability to plan an experiment, ability to present data and ability to process data.

In June 2012, the Pennsylvania General Assembly established the new evaluation method, is to be to be implemented in the 2013-14 school year, will include multiple measures of student achievement, such as the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System, graduation and promotion rates, as well as other elective data to be determined at the local level.

Recognized assessment methods of attachment styles, difficulties or disorders include the Strange Situation Procedure ( devised by developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth ), the separation and reunion procedure and the Preschool Assessment of Attachment, the Observational Record of the Caregiving Environment, the Attachment Q-sort and a variety of narrative techniques using stem stories, puppets or pictures.

The Rapid Assessment survey, developed by the ILO's International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour ( IPEC ) and UNICEF, relies on interviews and other, mainly qualitative, techniques, to provide a picture of a specific activity in a limited geographic area.

Social Assessment: theory, process and techniques.

Trope suggests in his chapter " Self-Enhancement and Self Assessment in Achievement Behaviour " that self-assessment is a way in which self-esteem can be enhanced in the future.

# Assessment: A person's financial situation is assessed by compiling simplified versions of financial statements including balance sheets and income statements.

* Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia

In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus, which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics.

A new Leaving Certificate exam subject with the working title ' Politics & Society ' is being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA ) and is expected to be introduced to the curriculum sometime after 2012.

A quick guide to assess personal injury claims is by reference to the Judicial Studies Board Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases.

* Axis V: Global Assessment of Functioning or Children's Global Assessment Scale for children and teens under the age of 18

During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

In 2007 Esperanto was the 32nd language that adhered to the " Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ( CEFR )".

Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).

Under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties decided ( decision 2 / CP. 3 ) that the values of GWP calculated for the IPCC Second Assessment Report are to be used for converting the various greenhouse gas emissions into comparable CO < sub > 2 </ sub > equivalents when computing overall sources and sinks.

In 1995, the US National Institute for Health ( NIH ), established a Technology Assessment Conference that compiled an official statement entitled " Integration of Behavioral & Relaxation Approaches into the Treatment of Chronic Pain & Insomnia ".

Well-known modern IQ tests include Raven's Progressive Matrices, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Stanford-Binet, Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, and Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children.

*** Summaries for Policymakers ( SPMs ) of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:

In 1992 and revised in 2002 the OECD's Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks proposed the nine generally accepted principles: Awareness, Responsibility, Response, Ethics, Democracy, Risk Assessment, Security Design and Implementation, Security Management, and Reassessment.

A NASA multi-center Technology Applications Assessment Team led from the Johnson Spaceflight Center, has as of January 2011 described " Nautilus-X ", a concept study for a multi-mission space exploration vehicle useful for missions beyond low earth orbit ( LEO ), of up to 24 months duration for a crew of up to six.

Assessment, measurement and prediction for personnel decisions.

* Knowledge Assessment Methodology, an interactive benchmarking tool created by the World Bank's Knowledge for Development Program to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in making the transition to the knowledge-based economy.

Although deaths from methadone are on the rise, methadone-associated deaths are not being caused primarily by methadone intended for methadone treatment programs, according to a panel of experts convened by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which released a report titled " Methadone-Associated Mortality, Report of a National Assessment ".

In June 1995, the GSA issued Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities, also known as The Marshals Report, the findings of which resulted in a thorough evaluation of security at all federal buildings and a system for classifying risks at over 1, 300 federal facilities owned or leased by the federal government.

For example, in the 1998 North Carolina Writing Assessment, less than 1 percent of fourth graders received the highest possible score for writing content.

According to Program for International Student Assessment ( PISA ) results, Shanghai students, including migrant children, scored highest in every aspect ( Math, Reading and Science ) in the world.