Sentences with phrase «describe study procedures»

Research staff met with consenting parents to describe study procedures and obtain informed consent.

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In a 2012 study, Gerry Angevine and Vanadis Oviedo of the Fraser Institute described «outdated regulatory processes and procedures, unnecessary duplication of federal and provincial government project reviews, and an unwieldy environmental review process.»

Coffin described how lab workers there had transplanted human prostate tumor cells into an immune - deficient lab mouse, a common procedure for procuring a colony of cells, or a human cell line, for further study.

The study found that although 86 percent of doctors did feel obliged to present all options in such cases, only 71 percent said they would feel obligated to refer the patient to a doctor who did not object to the requested procedure, and 63 percent believed it is ethically permissible for a doctor to describe his or her objection to the patient.

The 2011 paper «Tracheobronchial transplantation with a stem - cell - seeded bioartificial nanocomposite: a proof - of - concept study» described a first - of - its - kind procedure: A 36 - year - old man with recurrent tracheal cancer received an artificial airway seeded with his own stem cells.

Khourey - Bowers et al. (2005) and Keedy (1999) described several steps taken to strengthen the validity of the studies» findings, including the use of multiple forms of data collection to allow for triangulation in data analysis; they also provided detailed descriptions of the data analysis procedures.

The content described exactly the procedures used here in Hawaii, and allowed me to apply them directly without a lot of additional research and study.

These data collection procedures (as well as the procedures described in study 2 and 3) were approved by the Human Subjects Review Board on the campus in which this research was conducted; parents provided written informed consent.

In general, multiple imputation imputes missing scale values with regression - based maximal likelihood procedures but also incorporates random error into the estimates.26 To improve estimates, key demographic factors and the important covariates were used in the imputation strategy, and the procedures described by Allison27 for intervention studies were used.

This first study describes the procedure of construction of the CERS - M and investigates the validity of construct as well as the reliability of the instrument.

Completion of the Family - Centered Services Assessment Process Missouri Department of Social Services Children's Division (2011) In Child Welfare Manual Provides tools for completing a family assessment and procedures for identifying provider history, identifying children with American Indian heritage, identifying the reason for involvement with the family, conducting a safety assessment, describing the family system, studying the presenting problem, assessing risk and family functioning, and evaluating family strengths.

(I plan to write another more technical comment on her study soon, where I will describe what I like and what I am concerned about in her statistical procedures.)

The low recruitment rate is attributable, in part, to the longitudinal nature of the study that was described in detail in the recruitment letter (see Holmbeck et al., 2003 for more information on the recruitment of the CG sample and sample matching procedures).