As a secondary assessment, we collected additional data of all these patients to identify possible characteristics associated with this complication.
For risk assessment, we collected data on clinical condition at admission, smoking, alcohol consumption, drug misuse, patient and family history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, use of anticoagulants or platelet inhibitors, use of antihypertensive drugs, and serum lipid levels.
47 48 49 Other variables During the preoperative assessment we collected personal data on the participants, including age, ethnicity, marital status, body mass index, job, educational level, socioeconomic status, information on breast cancer, and medical history.
To evaluate the assessment programme, we collected quantitative ratings (five-point Likert scale) on items from the quality assurance questionnaire administered after each clinical rotation, relating to feedback, supervision, assessment, and learning activities.
Since we were not able to collect enough spores from the ΔMovam7 mutant for traditional assessment of pathogenicity, we collected mycelia and fragmented them before inoculation on the leaves of susceptible rice cultivar CO-39.
We conducted a quantitative cancer risk assessment, for which we collected global data on food-borne aflatoxin levels, consumption of aflatoxin-contaminated foods, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) prevalence.
To assess the efficacy and perceived value of our learning intervention, we collected assessment data – both direct (i.e., a set of three diagnostic tests) and indirect (i.e., feedback from a student questionnaire) from two institutions at which our learning intervention was tested.
Based on an assessment of the data we collected over the past 10 years, it would have been difficult for analysts to come to any different conclusions than the ones reached in October of 2002.
To enable a preliminary assessment along these lines, we collected two sets of social media data related to the Top post: 1). the ~3000 comments made to the post during the two week period immediately follow-ing the post, and 2).
To enable a preliminary assessment along these lines, we collected three sets of blog posts which are related to Egyptian unrest and Mubarak and were posted during the two week period immediately before the protests began on 25 January: 1). 100 Arabic posts, 2). 100 Indonesian posts, and 3). 100 Danish posts.
Second, advances in microarray technology during the course of this longitudinal study now permit more quantitative assessment of the RNA we collected.
