Constructing a model for the measurement of digitized services, the Survey assesses the 191 member states of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-government readiness based on website assessment ; telecommunication infrastructure and human resource endowment.

Roper's assertion leads one to believe that rather than delete or disregard activities of daily living, it can benefit the individual being assessed if the nurse uses the model more thoroughly and assesses the ADL fully, using the 5 factors, irrespective of the area in which the care is being received.

Role models can influence an individual's set of norms as well, especially if that role model is somebody the individual respects and aspires to be.

He borrowed the German word for ' environment ', Umwelt, to describe the individual's subjective world, and he invented the concept of functional circle ( Funktionskreis ) as a general model of sign processes.

From this an argument can be made that institutionalizing children in a so-called " one size fits all " or " factory model " school is an inefficient use of the children's time, because it requires each child to learn a specific subject matter in a particular manner, at a particular pace, and at a particular time regardless of that individual's present or future needs, interests, goals, or any pre-existing knowledge he or she might have about the topic.

Graves ' original theory uses a double helix model to show the interrelatedness of an individual's perception of life conditions with their inner neuronal systems, producing a level of psychological existence.

The biological component of the biopsychosocial model seeks to understand how the cause of the illness stems from the functioning of the individual's body.

Instead of focusing on the individual's appraisal of so-called stressors in relation to his or her own coping skills ( as the transactional model does ), the health realization model focuses on the nature of thought, stating that it is ultimately a person's thought processes that determine the response to potentially stressful external circumstances.

The individual's total number-correct score is not the actual score, but is rather based on the IRFs, leading to a weighted score when the model contains item discrimination parameters.

Freud's theories can be seen to be centred around the triangular Oedipus complex, the patricidal relation between child and father, and incestuous desire for the mother, as a model for the development of each individual's personality.

The proponents of the life-process model argue that the biological mechanisms that might account for addictive behavior have not been identified and thus do not support using the term disease, preferring to emphasize the individual's ability to overcome addiction by repairing relationships and personal strength of will.

Kolb's model gave rise to the Learning Style Inventory, an assessment method used to determine an individual's learning style.

The stages of Kohlberg's model relate to the qualitative moral reasonings adopted by individuals, and so do not translate directly into praise or blame of any individual's actions or character.

The medical model of disability is a sociopolitical model by which illness or disability, being the result of a physical condition, and which is intrinsic to the individual ( it is part of that individual ’ s own body ), may reduce the individual's quality of life, and causes clear disadvantages to the individual.

Some scholars have critically responded because, one of them claims he does not take into account that an individual's greatest influence can be revealed not so much in the period of the old regime's collapse, but in the formation period of a new one ( according to our model it is the fourth phase – see below ).

* Environmental-Roper stated in the interview above that this consideration made hers the first truly " green " model, as it recommends consideration of not only the impact of the environment on the activities of daily living, but also the impact of the individual's ADLs on the environment.

One idea of this medical model is the development of companion diagnostics, whereby molecular assays that measure levels of proteins, genes or specific mutations are used to provide a specific therapy for an individual's condition by stratifying disease status, selecting the proper medication and tailoring dosages to that patient's specific needs.

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

In the United States there is a proportionally limited tax on alcopops relative to those sold in Europe, although some states are considering legislation to bring their tax levels closer to the European model, which is credited with limiting consumption by youth.

As the mass of a model white dwarf increases, the typical energies to which degeneracy pressure forces the electrons are no longer negligible relative to their rest masses.

The Ricardian model does not directly consider factor endowments, such as the relative amounts of labor and capital within a country.

The results of the H-O model are that countries will produce and export goods that require resources ( factors ) which are relatively abundant and import goods that require resources which are in relative short supply.

A derivation of this principle is the doctrine of Syādvāda that highlights every model relative to its view point.

This model was said to be found in EU core countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, and it is also mirrored and emulated to some extent in the institutions of the EU, due to the relative weight that these countries had in the EU until the EU expansion by the inclusion of 10 new Eastern European member states in 2004.

The two most important models, which were aimed to describe the relative motion of the Earth and aether, were Augustin-Jean Fresnel's ( 1818 ) model of the ( nearly ) stationary aether including a partial aether drag determined by Fresnel's dragging coefficient,

:* Rat ( Rattus norvegicus )-particularly useful as a toxicology model ; also particularly useful as a neurological model and source of primary cell cultures, owing to the larger size of organs and suborganellar structures relative to the mouse.

Such models have the advantage that they can express the relative certainty of many different possible answers rather than only one, producing more reliable results when such a model is included as a component of a larger system.

Proponents view OBE as a valuable replacement of the traditional model of relative ranking by ability and getting credit for merely sitting through class.

The RGB color model itself does not define what is meant by red, green, and blue colorimetrically, and so the results of mixing them are not specified as absolute, but relative to the primary colors.

The truth of a sentence, and more interestingly, its logical relation to other sentences, is then evaluated relative to a model.

* Scale model, a physical model, a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions ( the scale factor ) of the physical size of the original object

While there is considerable debate about the relative merits of a constitutional arrangement such as that of the United States versus a parliamentary arrangement such as Britain, analysts have noted that most democracies around the world have chosen the British multi-party model.

Clouds remain one of the largest uncertainties in future projections of climate change by global climate models, owing to the physical complexity of cloud processes and the small scale of individual clouds relative to the size of the model computational grid.

Another factor that may have contributed to the relative neglect of creole languages in linguistics is that they do not fit the 19th century neogrammarian " tree model " for the evolution of languages, and its postulated regularity of sound changes ( such as the earliest advocates of the wave model, Johannes Schmidt and Hugo Schuchardt, the forerunners of modern sociolinguistics ).

An orrery is a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System in a heliocentric model.

During periods of relative stability in the industry landscape, companies can make incremental adjustments to their business model over extended periods of time.

All model parameters ( i. e., class priors and feature probability distributions ) can be approximated with relative frequencies from the training set.

However, countries have applied neoliberal policies at varying levels of intensity ; for example, the OECD ( Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ) has calculated that only 6 % of Swedish workers are beset with wages it considers low, and that Swedish wages are overall lower due to their lack of neoliberal policies John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer ( 2006 ) of the CEPR have analyzed the effects of intensive Anglo-American neoliberal policies in comparison to continental European neoliberalism, concluding " The U. S. economic and social model is associated with substantial levels of social exclusion, including high levels of income inequality, high relative and absolute poverty rates, poor and unequal educational outcomes, poor health outcomes, and high rates of crime and incarceration.

He was first to introduce surface drive on a Vee hull ( propeller hub above the water line ) to model boating which he named " SPD " ( surface planing drive ) as well as numerous products and developments relative to gasoline powered model boating.

The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability in Africa and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.

The above three-level database architecture also relates to and being motivated by the concept of data independence which has been described for long time as a desired database property and was one of the major initial driving forces of the Relational model.

Presidential systems are a notable feature of constitutions in the Americas, including those of the Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela ; this is generally attributed to the strong influence of the United States in the region, and as the United States Constitution served as an inspiration and model for the Latin American wars of independence of the early 19th century.

* Graphical model, a probabilistic model for which a graph denotes the conditional independence structure between random variables

An important step in the evolution of classical model theory occurred with the birth of stability theory ( through Morley's theorem on uncountably categorical theories and Shelah's classification program ), which developed a calculus of independence and rank based on syntactical conditions satisfied by theories.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

Many of the most interesting predictions of the autosegmental model derive from the automatic effects of the Well-formedness Condition and their independence of language-particular rules.

This model has been criticized for reducing physician independence, but defenders claim that the larger size of these practices allows for economies of scale and greater specialization, as well a sufficient volume to support more specialized testing methods.

Some of them set up Vietnamese independence societies in Japan, which many viewed as a model society ( i. e. an Asian nation that had modernized, but retained its own culture and institutions ).

When the British decided to grant independence to India, the minister declared that Travancore would remain as an independent country, based on an " American model.

Fitting the model of " independence " reduces the number of degrees of freedom by p = r + c − 1.

At the time of independence in 1960, Somalia was touted in the West as the model of a democracy in Africa.

The historical Conservative Party identified strongly with the British Empire and aimed instead to model Canadian political institutions after British ones opposing the policies of the Liberal Party which favoured Canadian nationalism and political independence from Britain as well as economically continentalist policies such as free trade and further integration with the United States rather than greater political and economic ties with the British Empire and later the Commonwealth.

Besides commanding a fine view of the city and a large part of the surrounding area, and being a local favorite recreational area, it hosts the Arms Museum, with a fine collection of weapons from the Middle Ages onwards ; the Risorgimento Museum, dedicated to the Italian independence wars of the XIX century ; an exhibition of model railroads ; and an astronomical observatory.

Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced on 28 November 2005, that the government intended to publish plans in early 2006 to legislate to render the ONS and the statistics it generates independent of government on a model based on the independence of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.

Under his Governorship, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand established a new model of the relationship between government and central bank – not totally independent, like the Bundesbank in Germany, and not dominated by government, as was typical of most central banks at the time, but one where government and central bank agreed in public about the inflation rate to be delivered by the central bank, where the central bank had full independence to run monetary policy to deliver that, and where the central bank's Governor was held accountable for the inflation outcome.

* Felix Klein constructs a model for hyperbolic geometry establishing its self-consistency and the logical independence of Euclid's fifth postulate.

With its independence, NABI began expanding its product line to gain a foothold in the then-fledgling low-floor bus market with the launch of the LFW series in 1997, NABI's first original model.

As many African countries gained independence during the 1960s, some of these newly formed governments rejected the ideas of capitalism in favour of a more afrocentric economic model.

Eliza Morgan ran the household with a strong hand, providing young Julia with a role model of womanly competence and independence.

A graphical model is a probabilistic model for which a graph denotes the conditional independence structure between random variables.

Following the model of the U. S. and French revolutions, most of Latin America achieved its independence by 1825.