Canadian courts have arbitrarily created – and retroactively applied – a standard for what is "useful" under Canadian law.
We extracted the key variables associated with the questionnaire or required to make comparisons: practice identifier, age and gender, BP, significant proteinuria, CKD (strictly applying a standard for chronicity), diabetes (again using strict diagnostic criteria) [ 23] or hypertension.
They argued the previous leadership wanted to apply a standard Congress meant for regular lightbulbs — the ones with the traditional pear-like shape — to many unconventional breeds of bulbs.
Economists who apply a standard discount rate, a method for calculating the possible economic consequences of future climate change, are in effect writing off what happens beyond 2050 -- so unsurprisingly they downplay the priority of addressing climate change in comparison with shorter-term efforts to help the world's poor.
Kienle et al. [ 15] also reported large deviations in the calculation of μ a and μ s ′ after simulating the reflectances for a source-detector separation of < 1 mm for multiple phase functions by applying a standard solution for the diffusion equation [ 10] to extract the optical properties.
By applying a standard procedure for discretization of the governing evolution equation, the flux of particles in and out of the control volumes can be calculated at each time step during thermal cycling.
Nonetheless, applying a standard template for each study, so that the subsequent meta-analyses could be feasible, was indeed painstaking.
It is important to note that the OMOP CDM applies a standard convention for deriving drug eras based on a 30-day persistence window and this convention is applied consistently across all databases.
By applying a standard definition for 'restoring' versus 'improving' normal microbiota, it is possible to distinguish significant differences by the type of study designs used and differential effects of the different probiotic strains.
It can be derived in a similar way as the most probable path, by applying a standard algorithm developed for additive distances to a negative log transform of the multiplicative probabilities in M. Nodes with a high betweenness-centrality represent frequent transient states.
By contrast, a study released last year by the C.D.C.'s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network looked directly at school behavioral assessments and clinical reports of children who were 8 years old in 2008 and applied a standard checklist of criteria for the diagnoses.
