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I have used similar content analysis procedures in several previously published peer - reviewed studies of media coverage of science - related policy debates.

I also teach these same quantitative content analysis procedures in undergraduate and graduate research methods courses.

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«Liquid biopsies are far less invasive than traditional biopsies, a development that not only benefits our patients through a simplified diagnostic procedure but also by significantly enhanced analysis of samples taken,» said Dr. Stanley Hamilton, professor of Pathology and division head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at MD Anderson, in a statement.

For a description of the Compensation Committee's processes and procedures, including the roles of Apple's executive officers and independent compensation consultants in the Compensation Committee's decision - making process, see the section entitled «Compensation Discussion and Analysis» below.

The compensation committee's processes and procedures for the consideration and determination of executive compensation, including the role of our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Resources in making recommendations to the compensation committee and the role of Mercer and ClearBridge in assisting the compensation committee in its functions, are more fully described in the «Compensation Discussion and Analysis» that begins on page 12 of this proxy statement.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itIn a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

For a description of the Compensation Committee's processes and procedures, including the roles of the Company's executive officers and independent compensation consultants in the Compensation Committee's decision - making process, see the section entitled «Compensation Discussion and Analysis» below.

In order to prevent conflicts of interest, the Saxo Bank Group has established appropriate business procedures, including procedures applicable to research and analysis to ensure objective research reports.

Additional information on the Committee's processes and procedures for considering and determining executive compensation is contained in the «Compensation Discussion and Analysis» section of this Proxy Statement.

The doctor analyses the psychic phenomena which the patient brings before him according to the theory of his school, and he does so in general with the co-operation of the patient, whom the tranquilizing and to some extent orienting and integrating procedure tends to please.

This procedure is comparable to the amplification method used in dream analysis, but with contributions from all participants.

Psychology of learning; social analysis of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts of ministers» salaries and the cost of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively precise procedures applied to limited data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount of hard thought about the large question of man's life before God will yield.

In light of this discussion of presuppositional analysis, it is perhaps worth making one final point concerning the relation between such a second - order type of procedure and the foregoing discussion of the first - order procedure of presenting the data of experience as evidence.

These inquiries in turn have been gathered together and assessed, a procedure that is fraught with difficulty: Researchers use different definitions of organic, compare different kinds of farms, and include different costs in their analyses.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

In analyses adjusted for maternal race and ethnic group, age, parity, and medical conditions associated with greater risk, the associations between planned location of delivery and most adverse outcomes and obstetrical procedures remained significant (Table 4).

Districts that participate in the NSLP are required, among other things, to have food safety programs and participate in health inspections by state or local health departments at least twice annually.4 School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other food.6

During a hearing on Friday, July 8, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ordered the county to hire a consultant by Aug. 7 in order to complete a settlement - required analysis of impediment, AI, report, which highlights a municipality's assessment of laws, regulations and procedures that affect a location's availability and accessibility to fair and affordable housing units.

That analysis of published large randomized trials calculated that each 77 - point drop in LDL cholesterol (a 2 millimole per liter drop) reduced the risk of a major cardiovascular event — heart attack, stroke or the need for a coronary - clearing procedure — by 45 percent.

Physicians had to perform at least 10 MMS procedures each year to be included in the analysis.

In an economic analysis of results from 34 studies, triclosan sutures were linked with an average cost savings per surgical procedure of # 91.25 across all wound classes when compared with non-antimicrobial-coated sutures.

In one analysis that included 21 randomized clinical trials, investigators found a risk of 138 surgical site infections per 1000 procedures, and the use of sutures coated with the antimicrobial triclosan reduced this by 39.

Dr. Rohrich, Editor - in - Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, comments: «With comprehensive facial analysis and careful injection technique, FDA - approved neuromodulators such as Botox, Dysport, and Xeomin enable plastic surgeons to restore a more youthful facial appearance, in a safe and efficient office procedure.»

In an analysis of Medicare billing data submitted by more than 2,300 United States physicians, researchers have calculated the average number of surgical slices, or cuts, made during Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS), a procedure that progressively removes thin layers of cancerous skin tissue in a way that minimizes damage to healthy skin and the risks of leaving cancerous tissue behinIn an analysis of Medicare billing data submitted by more than 2,300 United States physicians, researchers have calculated the average number of surgical slices, or cuts, made during Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS), a procedure that progressively removes thin layers of cancerous skin tissue in a way that minimizes damage to healthy skin and the risks of leaving cancerous tissue behinin a way that minimizes damage to healthy skin and the risks of leaving cancerous tissue behind.

Spitzer's study is perhaps a case in point, but increasingly in this field we acknowledge we have a problem with flexible methodology, meaning that our data analysis procedures are so wishy - washy, it's possible to «prove» anything.

This relatively straightforward procedure results from some pretty sophisticated mathematical analysis, which the researchers present in their paper.

Research materials transparency Materials / samples used in the analysis must be made available to any researcher for purposes of directly replicating the procedure.

Based on their comprehensive analysis, Wixted and Wells conclude that recent advancements in identification procedures warrant reconsideration of the role that eyewitness confidence can play in the legal system.

«Not only do we believe that high - quality, randomized clinical trials are necessary to determine the safety of the Lariat device for off - label procedures, but our analysis raises broader issues with the FDA 510 (k) clearance protocol for medical devices,» said study senior author Jay Giri, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at Penn. «We believe there needs to be a method for reassessing the safety of a device that has been cleared for one use but is being frequently used for a different purpose in real - world practice.»

In other words, when applying this analysis procedure, the team can indicate whether the document was written 1,500 days previously (just over four years) with a margin of 300 days either way.

Bruner said in October that he approves of a study, but he does not believe the procedure should be suspended pending an analysis.

An analysis of more than 600 class I (procedure / treatment should be performed / administered) American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association guideline recommendations published or revised since 1998 finds that about 80 percent were retained at the time of the next guideline revision, and that recommendations not supported by multiple randomized studies were more likely to be downgraded, reversed, or omitted, according to a study in the May 28 issue of JAMA.

Past consulting assignments have included developing a cost estimate for transponders and transmitters used to reduce «friendly fire» incidents for the U.S. Marine Corps; conducting a cost - benefit analysis for the Social Security Administration to replace analog recorders with digital equipment in their benefits hearings; and conducting a business case analysis for NASA Headquarters of integrating asset management procedures.

To facilitate the resulting data analysis, the researchers in Bielefeld and their colleagues in this project applied a completely new procedure that sorts the single chromosomes of the genome.

Bioinformatic approaches to the analysis of genetic variability and complex genotype - phenotype relationships will moreover include gene sequence and database analyses, measures of association of haplotypes / genotypes with phenotype, clustering procedures, neuronal networks, fuzzy and other techniques in pattern recognition, similarity measures for discrete patterns (e.g., gene sequences, structures, functions), logistic regression methods, and a spectrum of other techniques.

The entire procedure, including DNA extraction, sequencing, and marker analysis, is described in the November issue of Applications in Plant Sciences.

The current analysis highlights the need for meticulous evaluation of bioprosthesis mechanism of failure before attempting a valve - in - valve procedure,» the authors write.

In addition to a broad - based analysis, the researchers took a closer look at those who had heart attacks, pneumonia, appendicitis, heart bypasses, total knee replacement or spinal fusion procedures, and women who gave birth.

«This shows that DNA analyses of sediments are a very useful archaeological procedure, which may become routine in the future.»

Through electroencephalography (EEG)-- a non-invasive procedure that analyses electrical activity in the brain — the scientists measured the movement of their brainwaves simultaneously and confirmed that their oscillations took place at the same time.

The researchers found that of the 614 eligible patients included in the analysis, 27 % had no preoperative diagnostic procedure, 22 % did not have an imaging scan to stage the cancer, and 88 % did not have an invasive staging test.

We show that this statistical framework correctly estimates the ab... ▽ More We extend the statistical analysis of Lissauer et al. (2012, ApJ 750, 112), which demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Kepler candidate multiple transiting systems (multis) represent true transiting planets, and develop therefrom a procedure to validate large numbers of planet candidates in multis as bona fide exoplanets.

Further research topics are statistical / computational methods to study complex experimental data (e.g. cellular genealogies) and image analysis procedures (e.g. model - based segmentation algorithms in the context of automatic single cell tracking).

We partitioned the alignment into ribosomal RNA; tRNA; a control region; and the first, second, and third codon positions for coding DNA sequences (CDSs) and followed previously described procedures (9) to perform Bayesian analyses in MrBayes (73) and Beast (74).

Statistical analyses were made using either Student's two - tailed unpaired t test or analysis of variance (ANOVA) as specified in the figure legends, and Newman - Keuls procedure was used for multiple comparison analysis.

Research on vaccine biomarkers, including in - depth comparative analysis of data from different platforms, large - scale RNA sequencing, harmonisation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for sample, microarray and data analysis, as well as transcriptome mapping (more than 1400 samples analysed).

We rotate the powerful Keck telescope, taking pictures in a time - lapsed sequence, and then apply an intensive mathematical data analysis procedure.

The BIOMED - 2 multiplex PCR approach is a rapid and reliable procedure that is more sensitive than that of the Southern blot analysis in detecting clonality.

i. Dr. Charles Oxnard and Sir Solly Zuckerman, referred to below, were leaders in the development of a powerful multivariate analysis procedure.

Finally, RNA samples were prepared following the same procedure and subsequent microarray analyses were performed in a central facility using Affymetrix Mouse 430 v. 2 arrays.