"You know the terrorist threat is real right around the world at the present time," Mr. Blair told reporters while flying home from a visit to Iraq.
"Those who claim that sharp increases in federal borrowing and the national debt would be ill advised at the present time, when the economy is weakening while deflation threatens, have failed to study Japan's history," declared the economist John H. Makin in a report published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute — ordinarily, a staunch advocate for lean government.
While at the present time there may not be enough data available, planning should begin that includes discussions between assay developers, assay users and regulatory authorities.
At the present time, we can only conclude that, while these preliminary studies suggest that it may be feasible to develop array-based prognostic biomarkers, a common, internationally applicable set of gene expression biomarkers has yet to emerge.
While at the present time, PCR is not routinely available and its methods need more standardization, optimization, and quality control, in the future, an internationally accepted standardized kit might be available, which would facilitate the expanded use of PCR for pertussis diagnosis [ 16, 35].
Given just one item was removed from each subscale, it would seem that at the present time the existing structure of the scale, while not ideal, may suffice in an ordinal scale format until such a time that further evidence accrues to suggest a revision of the item content.
Other complications exist at the present time, for example, respiration artifacts should be minimized as much as possible, while achieving a tolerable total scan time for patients [13].
