Thus, we may see stronger associations among the younger half of our sample because the younger half is less selected for insensitivity to lead effects.
Cohort patients, such as those with heart failure, were less selected so that they were more like people in the general population with respect to the relationship between age and the EQ-5D index.
Due to the observational nature of this study, we expected the patient population to be less selected, including a significant proportion of patients with poor PS, as well as elderly patients.
In particular, patients of the FOLFIRI-3 study were less selected and 17% entered the study with a PS 2. In conclusion, FOLFIRI-3 is a feasible regimen with encouraging response rate and progression-free survival in patients previously treated with FOLFOX.
However, it must be remembered that DE genotypes represent full-sib families, meaning that they are less intensively selected than the clones from the other countries.
SEBI initially applies GA to select the optimal bicluster, and then this process is repeated so that the genes and the conditions in the biclusters already selected are less likely to be selected again.
From Fig. 11, it can be observed that the normalized hamming distances for 60 pairs of rotated images are less than the selected threshold.
It can be observed from Table 4 that mean hash distances of all content-preserving operations are less than the selected threshold value.
But for the Photoshop scale range [−20 +20], all the normalized hamming distances are less than the selected threshold; hence, the proposed method is robust to brightness adjustments.
Survival to reproduction and throughout reproductive life will be the focus of natural selection; survival later in life will be less strongly selected and thus selection may have compromised health in middle and old age.
