The modified statements were followed by a second round of voting with electronic keypads until a consensus was reached at the agreement percentage of ≥80%.
Results informed content for the second data sheet, in which participants were asked to only 'accept' or 'reject' the modified statements.
However, we agree that Yimlamai paper provides an example of clonal expansion driven by Yap at steady state (in progenitors), and we included discussion of that point and modified statements about two-signal requirement accordingly.
Even adverse stories now tend to carry modifying statements.
Permission to use or modify statements to ensure their relevance to eating disorders symptoms was given by the first author, Dr. Lisa Calvocoressi.
However, it should be noted that decisions to remove and modify statements per round were based on clinical expert opinion rather than being evidence based.
A modified version of the STROBE statement, containing 20 items, was presented at the International Pediatric Urology Task Force on Hypospadias meeting to assist with clear and transparent reporting of hypospadias studies.
We based the responses to the statements on a modified Likert scale, with 1 being strongly disagree, and 5 being strongly agree.
In addition, students in the EXP group filled out a postdemonstration attitudinal instrument consisting of five short statements with a modified Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree).
The option favored by Professor Woodford is a modified version of the Fed's statement that it intends to keep interest rates near zero until late 2014.
It is therefore acceptable that, under particular circumstances, the genetic program itself is modified, a statement that sounds fairly heretical.
