However, the results of this study indicate that the pulmonologists surveyed, compared to intensivists, attributed more weight to items related to 'personal views' (of the patient, family, other healthcare practitioners) and less weight to more objective elements, including well-documented prognostic factors (such as low FEV1, home oxygen, and so on).
We hope the post-Mbeki administration will attribute more weight to public health goods than an ideology based on sexual moralism - an ideology which, time and again, has been proven ineffective in preventing HIV in South Africa and beyond.
To avoid duplication of results and attributing more weight to these studies, it was decided to only use and analyze the study that would maximize the statistical power (i.e., multivariate instead of univariate analyses, bigger sample size) and allow possible meta-analysis of the results (i.e., results reported in odds ratio instead of percentages).
The survey also revealed that participants attributed more influence on their body weight to the amount of food they ate than they did to the composition of the diets they followed.
He is a grinding forward, content to block shots and battle in corners, and those tough-guy attributes carry more weight in the playoffs.
By evaluating the area under the curve up to each time point, as opposed to the actual survival percentages, more weight is attributed to earlier treatment effects when a greater proportion of patients are still alive.
3 Despite this track record, Elaine Faustman, a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health and member of the NTP Board of Scientific Counselors, says more weight should be attributed to data showing estrogenic effects in animal studies.
Viewed through this lens, the actions attributed to the Tsarnaev brothers carry even more weight.
As approximated in following equation, Relief computes the weight of attribute A as:
In this method (detailed below) the number of destinations carries more weight than the attributes of a link quality (frequency, number of service providers and minimum number of intermediate stops).
In general, nurses assigned more weight to these attributes than surgeons.
