Principal component analysis and cluster analysis techniques were utilised to define grouping of different marble samples.
As the final development of the paper, the above decomposition is utilised to define and determine driving point receptances required for dealing with wheel/rail interactions.
The resulting profile envelope was utilised to define natural variation and evaluated against this was beach level data collected between 2015 and 2016.
Key review papers and reports issued by disease surveillance agencies were utilised to define targeted searches.
A 14-item school-adjustment questionnaire was included in Young-HUNT, described in previous studies, 32 38 which was utilised to define attention and conduct variables.
All of them were utilised to define 'cases' in this study, and have been previously described in detail (Wang et al. 2009).
As previously described [ 19, 20], the ANZICS (Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society) adult patient database [ 21] was utilised to define an appropriate patient set, 1995- end)2009.
The results of this surveillance system were utilised to define public health control interventions against bacterial meningitis in Lazio and provide baseline data to assess the impact of these measures in the future.
If by convention larger values of a biomarker were associated with adverse outcome, a cutoff point was utilised to define a positive marker-based test result, that is positive if the marker value exceeded a certain cutoff point.
