In order to ascertain the base variance the function 'varianceFitDiagnostics' was used and the per-gene estimates of the base variance was plotted against the base levels.
The KAP surveys (n = 36) were conducted before implementation to ascertain the knowledge base and to gain community acceptance for an intervention, and during the final year to understand behavioral and knowledge changes.
VA is a well-known instrument for ascertaining the cause of death based on information obtained from close relatives through systematic retrospective questioning [ 12].
In addition, in four of the women (2%), we could not ascertain the genotype based on the AmpliChip result (Table 2).
Already at that time, pioneering studies designed to ascertain the genetic bases of breast cancer (Macklin MT 1954) detected a higher frequency of prostate cancer among the relatives of women with breast cancer, which led them to propose that prostate cancer could be the male equivalent of at least some female mammary carcinomas.
In this situation, clinical decisions for interventions (wait and see, consultation, diuretics, dialysis) are based on ascertaining the absolute level of sCr and the rate of change over a set period of time.
How much more legitimate would a victory be for Vice President Al Gore of several hundred votes (or even less) based on evaluating dimpled ballots or on his attempt to ascertain the vote total based only on selected counties favorable to him?
28 This income poverty line was calculated by STINMOD, in order to ascertain the poverty line based upon the entire Australian population.
By bioinformatics methods, random mutations were introduced in Sequence #2 to ascertain the probability of compensatory base pair changes arising by random base changes.
To ascertain the smoking prevalence of the base population, a new design was employed in the present study, which used the prevalence of smoking of living spouses as a substitute for the smoking prevalence of the base population.
