Severe physical acts were measured by affirmative reports of being (1) kicked, dragged, beaten, (2) choked, burned or (3) threatened with a weapon.
Although there is no empirical evidence on the effect of such factors on VA-derived causes of death, and InterVA was designed with the reality of different VA data collection tools in mind (eg, only affirmative reports of the presence of indicators influence cause probabilities), the possibility that differing cause distributions are driven by differing data capture methods cannot be ruled out.
But, she said, "Today we are looking at an affirmative and realistic report which, we know, is based on the study of written responses and on countless hours of attentive listening".
Reports are anecdotal with the patient's story nested within the (normally affirmative) therapeutic story of the case within a larger story of homeopathy as an effective system.
Participants reporting affirmative self-perceived threat to life at the time of crash and history of chronic illness and/or depression were reported to have significantly poor health outcome scores (Table 2).
Mr. Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar who has been a national leader on higher-education issues, particularly affirmative action, was reported to be the leading candidate in The Boston Globe and other publications.
Up to date, quite a lot of studies have reported affirmative effects of phenolics in neurodegenerative diseases depending upon their antioxidative properties [ 27].
Moro-oka et al. studied the effect of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and hyaluronic acid mixture on the tendon adhesion and reported affirmative effects of this mixture on prevention of tendon adhesion after tendon injury [ 11].
The Mandal Commission report, advocating affirmative action for intermediate (middle) castes, had sparked a series of clashes between different castes.
Here, we report an affirmative test of this hypothesis in a population-based cohort and an independent, external validation cohort of patients, all of whom received first-line tamoxifen therapy as a sole systemic adjuvant.
