What's the difference between factum and validity?

Factum


Definition:

  • (n.) A man's own act and deed
  • (n.) Anything stated and made certain.
  • (n.) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
  • (n.) The product. See Facient, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To measure the original tomb, Lowe's company, Factum Arte, used their own scanner, which can capture images as small as a tenth of a millimetre (and in the process created an unprecedented document that should be of sizeable assistance to future researchers).
  • (2) A Factum poll in October showed 29% approved of legalisation.
  • (3) Ex-post-factum study of growth and IQ achievements, in children previously affected by malnutrition.
  • (4) Adam Lowe, the founder of Factum Arte, said in a statement that the information gleaned from the slide and photographs enabled the group to study the surface of the painting, including brush marks.
  • (5) Sky said the replica was produced by a team of architects and computer engineers at Factum Arte who had precious little to go on: just a slide of the painting by photographer Enzo Brai, which did not even capture the entire painting, and some black and white photographs of the Caravaggio work from the 1950s that were recently discovered in the archives of the Restoration Institute in Rome.
  • (6) Factum Arte used laser scanners to capture the texture, shape and colours of the tomb, before reproducing it with machine-operated blades, some with a width of less than two-tenths of a millimetre.
  • (7) The initiative was introduced by the TV broadcaster Sky, which also commissioned a Madrid- and Milan-based company, Factum Arte , to create a replica of the piece.
  • (8) "The attempt to fix the tombs to make them visitable is itself now the largest long-term risk to the tombs," said Adam Lowe, whose Spanish-based firm Factum Arte led and funded the creation of the tomb's replica under the supervision of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities.
  • (9) The rationale for this new approach is based on the American experience but proposes an improved organizational and scientific method that has evolved to replace the previously existing ad hoc committees and punitive, post-factum approach.

Validity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
  • (n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.
  • (n.) Value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (2) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (4) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
  • (5) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (6) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (7) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (8) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (9) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (10) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
  • (11) Specifically, we apply techniques of data preprocessing, orthogonality constraints, and validation of solutions in a complete TC analysis, for the first time using actual MEP data.
  • (12) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (13) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
  • (14) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
  • (15) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (16) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
  • (17) Furthermore, CV1% and DV6% have proved to be valid parameters in finding differences in the light reflex in non-age-matched study groups.
  • (18) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
  • (19) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
  • (20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.

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