The first album's notes reveal the seriousness with which the group assessed its own role in Taiwan's musical development.

There are a number of exam boards which offer the chance for pupils to be assessed on either music theory or practice.

" Christian Rock historian John J. Thompson assessed the significance of Norman and his career in 2008: " It is certainly no overstatement to say that Larry Norman is to Christian music what John Lennon is to rock & roll or Bob Dylan is to folk music ".

" It was under the alias of Wagon Christ ( along with other equally vital monikers like Plug, Vibert & Simmonds, and later more simply in his own name ) that Vibert helped to redefine the rules of electronic music in the UK in the early to mid ' 90s-alongside a bunch of reprehensible mates that included Richard D. James ( a. k. a. Aphex Twin ), Tom Jenkinson ( Squarepusher ), Mike Paradinas ( µ-Ziq ), Chris Jeffs ( Cylob ), and the labels Rephlex and Warp ," assessed journalist Andrez Bergen in an article that appeared in Japan's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2003.

In some circumstances, such as examinations, the ability of a student to sight-read is assessed by presenting the student with a short piece of music, with an allotted time to peruse the music, then testing the student on the accuracy of the performance.

Additionally, home teams can be assessed technical fouls resulting from their partisans ' misconduct for excessive use of artificial noise, the playing of music by their band, or for dangerous offenses such as throwing items ( particularly ice or coins ) onto the court.

" Beat Instrumental assessed the album as " excellent " describing the " music alternates between spaced out imagery and hard rock ", as well commenting that this is the start of the space trip leading to the " Space Opera ".

The April 2001 edition of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine assessed the possible health benefits of the music of Mozart.

The submission from the Elder Conservatorium of Music was assessed, along with the musical research of all other Australian music academies, tertiary music schools, and music departments, in the category of ' Creative Arts and Writing ' ( category 19 ).

His long term legacy is still to be assessed, but through his work to date he has made a significant contribution to the Australian music tradition.

" assessed retrospective memory, long-term memory, and environmentally-cued memory.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

A systematic review in 2007 of the published English-language literature assessed the quality and strength of articles addressing causes for carpal tunnel syndrome.

The review warned that most trials have not been replicated, so the evidence is not strong, and the effect of long-term use has not been assessed.

When the review of the role Coastal Command was to play in war was assessed in 1937, the then AOC Frederick Bowhill was informed by his senior Air Staff Officer Air Commodore Geoffrey Bromet that the other two commands ( Bomber and Fighter ) had clear mission objectives while Coastal Command had been given no clear mandate.

The quality of each study is carefully assessed using predefined criteria and evidence of weak methodology or the possibility that a study may have been affected by bias is reported in the review.

In 2009, a comprehensive Cochrane review assessed the SPf66 as being not efficacious in Africa and Asia, and as having a low but statistically significant efficacy of 28 % in South America.

A systematic review which assessed 34 controlled trials involving a total of 767 CES patients and 867 control patients reported that in 77 % of studies ( 26 of 34 ), CES was found to significantly reduce anxiety.

The athletics medical staff member and the head coach then review all of the assessed weights of the wrestling team members and certify them online at the website of the National Wrestling Coaches Association ( NWCA ).

In particular, PIW proposed tax-exempt organizations disclose the "( i ) the nature and extent of its claims to expertise, other than membership interest ; ( ii ) the qualifications of those who will speak or act on behalf of the organization ; ( iii ) the research undertaken by the tax-exempt organization ; and ( iv ) whether the research has been assessed by independent peer review.

Rather it is a highly transparent process, supervised by governments, which enables the contemporary state of knowledge of climate change as it emerges from the peer-reviewed published literature to be summarised and assessed by a representative group of the internationally acknowledged experts in the field with their summary assessment subject to one of the most exhaustive processes of peer review and revision that I believe has ever occurred in the international scientific community.

In his The Independent review, Robert Hanks assessed it to be " sloppy " and said Williams deserved better.

The impacts of CGIAR research have been extensively assessed, as demonstrated by a review article publishing in the journal, Food Policy, in 2010.

The 2002 review assessed over 700 references.

Shortly after the decision of the joint advisory panel, the president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology ( IAOMT ) wrote to the FDA to ask for an expanded review of current science on dental amalgams, a definitive date for such a hearing, and a format that will assure that the full breadth of health effects is assessed.

There are over 100 such institutions, about two-thirds assessed by peer review as compliant with the United Nations standards set out in the Paris Principles.

In 1972, Bellarmino Bagatti, a franciscan friar and archaeologist, excavated the site and found evidence of an ancient cemetery dating to the 1st century ; his findings have not yet been subject to peer review by the wider archaeological community, and the validity of his dating has not been fully assessed.

Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes assessed the film at 50 % on its tomatometer with an average 5. 4 / 10 rating.

* A 2009 review of psycho-educational interventions for children with autism whose mean age was six years or less at intake found that five high-quality (" Level 1 " or " Level 2 ") studies assessed ABA-based treatments.

The researchers highlighted the potential biases of availability ( the recency and density of exposure of someone to events raises the assessed likelihood of the events ) and base-rate neglect ( people often do not properly consider the low prior probability of events in assessing the likelihood of events when they review evidence in support of the event ) as influencing both search engines and then people searching the web.

Furthermore, a 2006 Cochrane review (" last assessed as up-to-date " in 2009 ) concluded that there was " insufficient evidence to recommend population based screening " for glaucoma because no pertinent randomized controlled trials exist.

In 1984, Starr assessed his performance stating, " I think it's the best out of all the records I've ever made.

The album's liner notes included information about the songs, written by music journalist David Hepworth.

The album's tour featured the band performing seven songs in front of a 12-foot high rear-projection screen with synchronized video, an image recreated using blue screen effects in the album's accompanying music videos.

The album's singles barely registered on Urban contemporary radio, where disco music remained popular.

" The DVD features music videos for each of the album's singles.

The album's first week sales were the second highest of any album that year, a significant achievement for a hard rock band at a time when music charts were largely dominated by hip hop and teen-pop acts.

For the album's first single, " Experimental Film ", TMBG teamed up with Homestar Runner creators Matt and Mike Chapman to create an animated music video.

Many fans were reminded of the band's 1970s sound largely because of Khoroshev's classically oriented approach, though White also brought in world music influences with Latinesque arrangements, and with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch contributing to the album's textures.

It was the release of the album's first single " Smells Like Teen Spirit " that " marked the instigation of the grunge music phenomenon ".

Newton-John became a pioneer in the nascent music video industry by recording a video album for Physical featuring videos of all the album's tracks and three of her older hits.

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

Looking back, Smith felt that the album's pervasive mood gave him " a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person ," and said that he later made a conscious move toward more diverse moods in his music.

The album's sound marked a drastic change from their previous outings, oriented more in the direction of glam rock and psychedelic music than that of the hard rock / grunge sound that propelled them to popularity ; critical reception, at the time, was mostly mixed.

The album's music was probably the closest to ' hardcore punk ' Riot / Clone ever achieved.

Lights of Madrid also contains a PDF with guitar tabliature for the album's music.

In 2006, the same publication recognized the importance of the album's contribution to popular music in the 1980s by including it in their " The 200 Greatest Albums of the 80s " as one of the twenty greatest albums of 1981.

Directly after the album's release, O ' Connor announced her retirement from music.

The majority of the album's music was composed by drummer Charlie Benante while lyrics were composed by rhythm guitarist Scott Ian.

The band released a music video for the album's only single, " Lacquer Head ", which was banned from MTV because of references to and depictions of drug use, despite the song's anti-drug message.

Gaye won several music industry awards following the album's success including Billboard's Trendsetter of the Year while Rolling Stone named it the " Album of the Year ".

In his book, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, author and music writer Michael Eric Dyson elaborated that the album was " unmistakably a work of romantic and erotic tribute " to Hunter and that the singer's obsession with Hunter was " nearly palpable in the sensual textures that are the album's aural and lyrical signature ".

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

The album's lyrics deal with Louis Perez's childhood in East Los Angeles while the music portrays complex and original soundscapes reminiscent of their previous release Kiko.

The album's title track and " Cold Shot " were released as singles, with their accompanying music videos receiving regular airplay in North America on MTV.