We measured MeHg and total Hg (THg) concentrations, and ancillary chemical characteristics, in whole and filtered surface water, and filtered porewater.
Although the USNVC standard is national, the classification is based on vegetation plot data from a variety of sources, along with ancillary environmental characteristics such as soil wetness and disturbance information (Franklin et al. 2015).
Clinical trial protocols are often designed to structure the delivery of care, altering the context in which an intervention is delivered to minimise the variability in ancillary care characteristics.
In ancillary analyses, baseline characteristics will be reported using percentages for categorical data, and means and SDs (or medians and IQRs) for quantitative data.
By exploring characteristics of ancillary studies, we identify differentiating requirements and scenarios for ancillary study management systems (ASMSs).
Due to the straightforwardness of the derived process model, it should also be useful for the analysis of similar steam boiler facilities, requiring only adjustments of key operational and design parameters such as operating pressure, temperature, steam capacity and characteristics of ancillary equipment such as pumps.
Distinguishing characteristics of ancillary studies may include the collection of additional measurements (particularly new analyses of existing specimens); the initiation of studies by investigators unaffiliated with the original study; cross-protocol data pooling and analysis; pre-existing participant consent; and pre-existing data context and provenance.
Deutscher D, Horn SD, Smout RJ, DeJong G, Putman K. Black-white disparities in motor function outcomes taking into account patient characteristics, nontherapy ancillaries, therapy activities, and therapy interventions.
Conceptually, the BASIC-HHD study is intended to be both confirmatory and exploratory in design and provide a scaffold for ancillary studies addressing specific psychosocial characteristics and biomarkers in the different study cohorts.
For example, an ancillary study might identify the characteristics of individual immune responses or viral types that contribute to vaccine failure or success, elucidate mechanisms of treatment response, or identify biomarkers associated with positive outcomes.
The major weakness in our current work is the lack of ancillary information such as baseline characteristics and changes in clinical risk factors (eg, blood pressure, lipids and glycaemic control) or change in medications.
