Our main study outcome was overweight.
We omitted the application of pure living mycelia from the study, because our main goal was to elaborate a simple one-step green synthesis method to produce AuNPs for further modifications and applications.
Although higher resolution observation data (e.g., radial wind from Doppler radars and GPS precipitable water vapor) are expected to be better able to reproduce smaller scale distributions of the initial conditions than conventional data, we did not use such high-resolution data in this study because our main purpose was to explore the merits of ensemble forecasts.
It is, however, neither possible nor necessary to do that in our study because our main goal is to build a general picture and illustrate key features that are less dependent on microscopic details, using the philosophy of critical phenomena in statistical physics.
A non-treatment control arm was not included due to budgetary constraints of this small pilot study, and because our main aim was to isolate the effects of IGI over and above the didactic lifestyle education.
This may be because our main outcome was suicide attempt rather than suicide completion, which has been the main outcome in studies of ethnicity and suicidal behavior ([3,8,12]).
"Because our main principle is defense first".
This was because the main study was investigating obesity in adult patients, excluding cancer, haematology and obstetrics.
Because the pilot and main study test items differed, we calculated performance and prevalence of alternative conceptions separately for each test.
Because several parameters, including main study parameter Rd, deviated from a normal distribution, the non-parametric Kolmogorov Smirnov Z-test was used to detect any differences between POAG patients and age-matched control subjects with regard to general, optical model, and OCT parameters.
