Only males were used in the experiment as preliminary trials revealed potential variation in behaviour and activity between sexes and, due to their solitary nature (Lewis and Choat, 1993), the number of females collected was insufficient to perform reliable tests.
To temper expectations for Atlas, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is describing the first event to be held in December at Homestead-Miami Speedway as a "preliminary" trial.
Data stemming from in vitro testing of human cell lines as well as from preliminary trials in diabetic populations, like the Study to Prevent Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (STOP-NIDDM) trial, have highlighted – though not undisputed – the potential beneficial effects of the drug on CV morbidity.
The robust strain R117 of Chlorella was selected as model microalga in this work as in preliminary trials it showed tolerance to high doses of selenite (not shown here).
This level of resistance that has been selected as the preliminary trials by Chang and colleagues 2 indicated that resistance equivalent to 50% of MIP resulted in severe dyspnoea.
In a preliminary trial presented as a poster at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington DC on Sunday, eight patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis were given one minute of mirror therapy after ranking the pain in their joints on a 10-point scale.
The Concise Oxford Thesaurus [ 1] defines a pilot project or study as an experimental, exploratory, test, preliminary, trial or try out investigation.
The assumption is that the number of cancer cells in someone's blood will fall as the tumour regresses, and a preliminary trial of FAST on women with breast cancer suggests that those whom the method shows as having fewer circulating cancer cells do indeed live longer.
According to the preliminary trial batch results, the optimum grade of aggregates was determined as 25% FPA, 25% MPA and 50% CPA by weight for the mixture compositions.
Preliminary trial searches targeting specifically nutrition/nutraceuticals with lists of keywords such as 'food', 'supplements', 'plant', 'nutrition', 'vitamins', 'mineral', and 'nutraceuticals' performed poorly.
