The main aim of these trials was organ preservation in patients with advanced cancer, and the reported overall survival rate in the studies with acceptable minimal observation time (median 3 years) were 39% (von Scheel et al, 1996), 64% (local control rate; Fuwa et al, 2000), and 58.9% (Furutani et al, 2002).
In order to achieve an acceptable level of observation reliability, the data recording process was standardized by making the observation categories in this study as unambiguous and self-evident as possible.
Estimations of internal reliability revealed Cronbach's alpha's of the HADS (all items) and the HADS-A and HADS-D sub-scales to be all statistically acceptable, indeed, these observations being entirely consistent with previous research into the psychometric properties of this instrument (Bjelland et al., 2002).
This may explain the observation of acceptable outcomes in a scenario where most of the anti-tubercular drugs showed low levels of anti-tubercular drugs.
In all cases, the parameters are set in an ad hoc manner based on the observation of acceptable behavior for known orthologous families.
Although means and percentages show markedly uniform patterns and acceptable results for the observation period, intra-subject correlation and level of agreement at different times, disappointingly is quite modest in general: High correlation (ICC/kappa ≥ 0.5) was hardly detected in any answers.
The model simulations compared well with observations and acceptable values were obtained for both root mean square error and correlation coefficient.
The analytically predicted crack densities at saturation are shown to be in acceptable agreement with experimental observations and saturated crack density is confirmed to be a characteristic damage state (CDS) identical during both static and fatigue loading.
The applicability of the proposed numerical model is tested by simulating the effect of a non-porous wind deflection fin to reduce the snow accumulation in a 3 m high building step, and the results seem to be in acceptable agreement with field observations.
Both dairy processing plants were visually very clean, and inspection observations found acceptable sanitation levels in the interior plant environments.
