The regular visits of whalers, fishermen and buccaneers among islands for hundreds of years was perhaps less likely to result in a sustained local epidemic due to its more haphazard localization and lengthy times at sea between landings, during which virions would be rinsed from footwear and decks.
The high cost and lengthy times associated with the use of animal testing to determine a chemical's potential for toxicity make this strategy impractical for evaluating tens of thousands of chemicals, hence the large inventories of existing chemicals for which few or no test data are available.
Given the limited powers of the rule and the aggressive challenge of special interests and the lengthy time and effort spent crafting, defending and preparing the rule, you might wonder whether the energy is for naught.
These indices condense information from the visible and near-infrared wavelengths, and facilitate lengthy time series analysis of forest landscape change using data from all Landsat sensors.
Strengths of the research included the importance of providing guidelines for interpreting research using these commonly used measures; the use of a prenatal tobacco exposure at Pittsburgh and an adolescent-emerging adult cohort at Oregon; and the lengthy time intervals between the initial research and the administration of the LTUQ.
However, based both on the complex processes, practices and often lengthy time period involved in achieving pregnancy, and the emotional and material investment these women made in impending motherhood, the experience of loss is amplified for lesbian and bisexual women.
However, we selected this design over a stepped-wedge approach due to concerns about the increased sample size that a stepped-wedge design might entail and the lengthy time frame required to implement a sufficient number of steps.
However, due to practical reasons and the lengthy time required to administer the trial version, the d/e focus groups later decided to adopt the 36-item version of the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) [ 12] instead of the trial version [ 10, 11] in the performance dimension of the Functioning Scale of the Disability Evaluation System-Adult Version (FUNDES-adult version).
The dominant factor, however, is the huge reduction in productive time and lengthy decompression time required for people working under air to prevent the crippling disease known as the bends (or caisson disease), also encountered by divers.
