This approach optimised the use of available data; among individuals with an Afghanistan deployment-related diagnosis, the Afghanistan-related deployment return date is a relevant proxy for symptom onset timing in delay to care calculations while this is not the case for individuals with diagnoses that are not Afghanistan deployment-related.
Absent data on fetal distress in the birth file, we used male CD as a clinically relevant proxy for male fetal distress.
TV viewing, the most relevant proxy for sedentary lifestyle, has consistently been found associated with childhood obesity [ 36].
Another question for the E.E.O.C. is whether it is acceptable for employers to use current employment as a proxy for relevant experience, or as an expedient to screen applicants.
When evaluating SDP predictions in the absence of experimental data, many researchers have used nearness to relevant ligands as a proxy for importance for specificity (see Hannenhalli and Russell, 2000; Kalinina et al., 2003).
A statistical analysis was performed on the data using Principal Component Analysis, confirming that embodied carbon, a popular metric for evaluating environmental impacts in building LCAs, is a suitable proxy for other relevant environmental impact metrics when assessing the impact of repairing earthquake damage of buildings.
A letter is a proxy for your self.
However, if the objective is only to identify individual positive selection sites within a gene, the a priori structural information is not likely to serve as a perfect proxy for those partitions most relevant to differences in selection pressures.
We, therefore, choose the number of blackbirds singing within a range of 100 m of a recorded territorial male during the dawn chorus as a proxy for the level of relevant social singing interactions of a focal male.
From the above outcomes, it can be seen that all-cause discontinuation and discontinuation due to treatment inefficacy are included as more global effectiveness and efficacy measures, while discontinuations due to AEs is included as a proxy for patient-relevant adverse effects, anticipating that they will reflect the ultimate decision of the participant and/or physician to discontinue treatment.
