The lack of association between mesothelioma latency and smoking status suggests that differences in mortality due to other causes may not be substantially affecting the comparisons of mesothelioma latency in this study, and so it is unlikely that this could fully explain the associations observed with sex and presence of asbestosis.
The main objective of our study, therefore, was to explore if accounting for nutritional quality affects the comparison of the environmental impacts of human diets varying in their percentage of animal-source food products (ASFP).
The PPP factor is based on comparing prices for a basket of goods in Britain to those in the US, and if the prices of non-medical goods shifted differently than medical goods, one could imagine this might somehow affect the comparison of medical prices.
The PVEs, however, do not appear to largely affect the comparison of the kinetic parameters between the control and sorafenib-treated mice, as the similar kinetic analysis was performed in both of the groups.
A recently constructed coastal dike has reduced the projected inundation area of Level 1 and 2 tsunamis, and affects the comparison of the inundation area and sedimentary deposits resulting from past tsunamis.
Although HRF was highly variable across individuals and among different cortical regions of the same individual, HRF variations across cortical regions may not affect the comparison of conditions [41].
Since 9 months of protection was assumed, the year of 1999 was included because absence of southern hemisphere vaccination in 1998 does not affect the comparison of strategies in 1999 (only if we had detected in January of 1999 a strain already present in the vaccine, but that was not the case).
We note that this approach may affect the comparison of Model A and B in BayesTraits as an incorrect root node may hamper the detection of trait evolution, hence we repeated our analyses assigning another arbitrary individual bearing the most common haplotype to the root node and checked for concordance of results.
