In this line, recent works have proposed indicators to describe community changes associated with climate warming, reflecting a generalized trend towards a higher representativeness of high-temperature dwelling species [9].
Strengths of this study include a detailed assessment of the therapy setting and therapy-related factors, a long follow-up period, and a high representativeness due to the participation of 14% of eligible AM physicians and AM therapists in Germany.
A strength of the sample studied here, however, is the high representativeness of the SHCS for the epidemic in Switzerland [ 6– 8].
Respondents were asked to fill in the questionnaires shortly after lectures (before leaving the lecture theaters), which resulted in a response rate of 100% (in relation to the selected group of respondents) and high representativeness of the sample (in relation to the total number of students).
2 These include high representativeness of the patients involved and comparability against other nationwide studies.
Strengths of the EPI-3 study include high representativeness of the patients involved and comparability against other nationwide studies.
However, judging by the high representativeness of the Stockholm population, especially among the older age stratum, this is unlikely to invalidate our findings.
These figures let assume high representativeness of VC estimates for the studied years of birth and regions as well as for the population in Germany born during this period.
Although the MMP is not strictly representative of migrants in Mexico, it offers data with a high degree of representativeness at the community level, and it provides information on the labor history of migrants and detailed information on their first and last US trips.
However, all infants born during the sampling period were included, suggesting a high degree of representativeness.
