Deaths that occurred during the follow-up period were initially ascertained either through direct contact by relatives on receipt of the postal questionnaire or, if this was not returned, by further enquiry made to ascertain the subject's vital status.
This may be a low level of interpretation, of course; simply ascertaining the correct subject of a sentence where no subject is present, or inferring a verb from a prior occurrence, without going into any metaphysical speculations.
The current study aimed at the ascertaining the feasibility of subjecting yard waste generated in the campus to in-vessel composting and evaluate the effect of additives (food wastes and paper waste) in co-composting.
A question was asked to ascertain whether the subject was an active smoker.
The test simultaneously screens for difficulties with vision, movement, and comprehension and ascertains whether the subject can follow simple instructions.
Subsequently, the presence of this mutation was ascertained in the subject of this report at the age of 36 years, when still in good health.
We developed a summary index for plastic material contact (SIP) to ascertain if the subject came into contact with plastic tableware (0/1), water or tea in polyethylene terephthalate bottles (0/1) and food packaging (0/1).
Other studies of sexual offenders committing the same types of offenses have also been published, but did not include any explicit method of ascertaining whether the subjects were genuinely paraphilic or engaged in the same behavior in service of some other motivator.
Moreover, it was of interest to ascertain whether the subjects with FGID diagnoses and subjective distress exhibit higher levels of chronic stress and stress reactivity than those without subjective distress.
This study could not ascertain that the subjects were free of the medical disorders at the start, and the results thus suggest an association and not necessarily a causal relationship between chronic musculoskeletal pain and the medical conditions.
For the remaining 94 episodes of mild respiratory illnesses that did not meet the criteria for unscheduled visit, it was difficult to ascertain whether the subjects actually had very mild asthma exacerbations, leading to a possible underestimation.
