23 Field data collectors used a structured questionnaire to collect a weekly morbidity history, including the child's general state, appetite, number of semiliquid/liquid stools, presence of blood or mucus in stools, vomiting, fever, signs of respiratory tract infections, and any treatment received by the child either from study staff members or outside the study.
In brief, information was obtained regarding age, sex, place of residence, ethnicity, signs and symptoms and their duration (e.g., fever [temperature >38°C], nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and number of loose stools during the past 24 h), hydration and nutrition status, and whether the children had been given antimicrobial and antiparasitic drugs.
But give Mr. Petty, who has a salesman's flourish and an accountant's appetite for numbers, five minutes and he can build a record of America's peculiar institution on his kitchen table.
One might think that the betting interest in pro football which Yost estimates at more than a billion dollars per season would lead to an ever more avid appetite for numbers, but the kind of analysis that Barra et al. are able to do is, although powerfully suggestive, weakly predictive.
The task of half dozen small groups was to explore ways to foster innovations aimed at sustaining access to water and food and sustaining cities — a particular focus of Rockefeller — as human appetites and numbers crest in coming decades.
I described the human challenge, as human appetites and numbers crest, as being akin to shifting from a sprint to a marathoner's pace — running, or in this case living, for the long haul.
(Here's the rest of that tune, which dates from the era of "The Population Bomb" and – if written now – would probably focus more on human resource appetites than numbers).
As for the interest among venture investors, Angle ascribes the newfound appetite to a number of exits in ancillary spaces, while saving a bit of credit for iRobot's own Roomba, which he says popularized robotics.
The PE rating continues to defy gravity at 55 times, ignoring a potential design loss in a Samsung tablet to Intel, Intel's new Silvermont chip, signs of commoditization in the smartphone market and consumers' appetite moving from number of cores to bigger screen sizes.
"We live in a news environment where a combination of cable news and Web sites of every imaginable variety have an insatiable appetite for polling numbers".
Recognising the public's appetite for reducing the number of migrants coming into the country, the government slashed the numbers of highly skilled visas available each year.
