The ascertained supply and medication needs were combined in a spreadsheet to estimate the needs of each facility and for our network.
As a second step, at the global level, overviews of existing literature reviews and systematic reviews were conducted in order to ascertain the supply of research, and analysis of regional and country reports was undertaken to identify research priorities that cut across multiple countries.
John Forbes Royle set out to compile his Manual of Materia Medica because the Medical Board wanted to ascertain whether supplies from Europe could be replaced by "articles indigenous in the country, or by cultivating exotics in the most suitable climates of the plains and mountains of North India".
We calculated the total quantity of water requirements in this sector by ascertaining the daily demand and supply amounts of each household and used it to multiply for the number of days in the year to arrive at the annual supply and demand of each household.
Mortality was ascertained using databases supplied by the US army: the Veterans Administration (Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem), the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Center for Health Statistics Nationall Death Index).
By evaluating the information needs of decision makers, or the "demand", along with the supply of information by the USDA, we can ascertain where matches between supply and demand exist, and where science policies might miss opportunities.
Once the police officer and I had ascertained the target (a supply cabinet filled with sniff-able aerosols) I got a plank, hammer and nails from the basement.
Exposures to immunosuppressive agents were ascertained by the days' supply for all relevant medications.
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"We are currently ascertaining their nationalities," he added.
