As potential confounders, we initially considered age (as a continuous variable), current smoking status (yes/no), abstinence time (as continuous or categorized into 0 2, > 2 4, > 4 6, > 6 days), BMI (as continuous), and levels of testosterone, SHBG, FSH, LH, estradiol, and inhibin B in serum and the testosterone:SHBG ratio.
As a proof-of-concept, we initially considered only five types of messages regarding different resources: (i) connection (connection create), (ii) disconnection (disconnection create), (iii) connection + BBU change (handover CRUD), (iv) bandwidth (BW) update (channel update), and (v) RRH status channel read).
Cigarette smoking has been widely reported to be associated with type 2 diabetes (Willi et al. 2007; Zhu et al. 2014), and we initially considered it as a potential confounder in our analyses.
When we read the conclusions of the recent RCT by Moler et al. [ 6], which investigated two early TTM strategies (33.0 °C versus 36.8 °C) in 295 comatose children after out-of-hospital CA, we initially considered it as a negative trial providing more evidence against the brain-protective effects of post-CA hypothermia in this subset of patients.
We initially considered these modules as the domains most likely to bind SER.
We initially considered RA practice as a dependent variable, and tested associations with independent variables using non-parametric Mann–Whitney U and chi-square tests.
We initially considered a transcript as expressed if it was covered by at least four reads and its abundance was higher than 1% of the most abundant isoform of the gene.
Given that BACE1, AdAM10/17/19 have been shown to cleave NRG127,28, we initially considered these matrix metalloproteinases as candidate proteases for NRG4 cleavage.
We initially considered "not known" answers as missing data, but we also performed further sensitivity analyses considering the "not known" answers to be "never used," "ever used," and "ever used" for controls and "never used" for cases.
As an illustration for (20), we initially consider two distinct elements of the generated special model from the specifications: H x;β)=β−1[ exp(β x)−1] and h(x;β)= exp(β x) in (8).
The correlation coefficient is 0.36, which is not as high as we initially expected considering both EST and SAGE libraries were prepared from the same mRNA sample.
