The screening-detected cases were ascertained by small-intestinal biopsies and HLA-DQ testing.
In 475 infants (children below two years of age) celiac disease diagnosis was ascertained by three consecutive small intestinal biopsies, while on a normal diet, a gluten-free diet and after gluten challenge, respectively, according to the diagnostic criteria of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
Though risk factors ascertained by farmer-completed surveys explained a small percentage of the among-herd variability in crude herd-specific mastitis rates, the study suggested that farmer attitudes toward mastitis and lameness treatment were important determinants for mastitis incidence rate.
However, these findings need to be interpreted with caution as numbers were small and causes of deaths were ascertained by verbal interviews of the relatives of the deceased.
Nevertheless, the speed ratio v is sufficiently small in both cases, which can be ascertained by the comparison between the standard deviation σ ¯ B and the one of our model with given v using Monte-Carlo simulations.
Finally the reductions of nitrate and nitrite were ascertained by addition of naphthylamine and sulphanilic acid solutions to the nitrate broth followed by adding a small amount of zinc dust [ 22].
There are also several severity groups (small, moderate, large, massive or extensive) into which these lesions can fall depending on the size as ascertained by AIS severity scores.
For 20 patients with small CNVs, real-time PCR was performed, and the results were consistent with the copy number status ascertained by CNVplex® analyses.
Those responsible for the firing could not be ascertained by the United Nations military observers.
(Compd. 1), as ascertained by elemental analysis.
The surface modifications were further ascertained by XPS.
