Older students should research and be assigned a less well-known disease (such as toxoplasmosis, ghiardia, sarcoptic mange, leptospirosis, psittacosis, camelpox, encephalitis, salmonellosis, Q-fever, and hookworm).
For hip fracture, we considered ICD-9-CM 820 (fracture of neck of the femur) and 821 (fracture and other unspecified parts of the femur) because some hip fractures may be assigned a less precise diagnosis code [ 34].
Mrs. Clinton was assigned a less embarrassing task: she pretended to be the only person in the studio who could fix a broken television screen.
Individuals having greater symptoms, functional limitations and less exercise experience were assigned a less difficult routine.
If the values of q (i.e., benchmark data) under consideration are all of maximum measurement quality, w may be equated with H; otherwise, w may be assigned a value less than H according to limitations of measurement quality (e.g., of accuracy and precision).
They applied this method to the Decoys 'R' Us decoy set (Samudrala and Levitt, 2000) and showed that indeed 78.1% of the decoys in the set were assigned a lower (less favorable) SCW score compared with the native structure.
Samples with no detectable antibody were assigned a value 1 less than the starting log2 dilution for statistical analysis.
A total of 1,616 peptides found by the Celera search could not be identified using the initial six-frame searches, but, as expected, a considerable fraction of these (1,110) were found to span exon junctions (see methods), and a further 167 were assigned by the six-frame search, but were assigned a confidence of less than 95% by ProteinPilot.
For statistical testing, censored values were assigned a single value less than the lowest quantified concentration for that analyte.
A desirable intake level (e.g. lower fat or higher vitamin intake) was assigned a lower rank and a less desirable intake level (e.g. higher fat or lower vitamin intake) a higher rank.
The total number of hours of physical activity per week was summed and participants were assigned a final score of 0 (less than 1 hour/week), 1 (1–2 hours/week), 2 (2–3 hours/week), 3 (3–4 hours/week), or 4 (4+ hours per week).
