The 40 treatments (20 test and 20 control) were assigned a study number from 1 to 40, based upon a randomised sequence generated in Minitab (Minitab Inc, State College, PA, USA) by the trial statistician (PJC).
After a further five minutes' rest, the subjects were asked to perform two voluntary contractions at 30% MVC and two at 60% MVC in a randomised sequence; the contractions lasted 30 seconds and were separated by 5-minute rest periods.
A block of trials consisted of four regular trials and four irregular ones in a randomised sequence, each of the same submodality (either Color, Luminance, Letters or Numbers).
Animals were randomised into groups using a randomised number sequence and assessment was blinded.
Higher order Markov chain processes are used to generate randomised sequence in a similar fashion.
Unlike the Ph.D.-12 phage display library, the randomised sequence of the Ph.D-C7C library is flanked by a pair of cysteine residues.
The starting synthetic oligonucleotide was composed of 19 nucleotides of randomised sequence flanked on the 5' end with a primer-binding site, an XhoI site and five adenosines.
A similar effect was observed in the second order Markov chain process randomised sequence (data not shown).
The items were presented in a pseudo-randomised sequence, with six trials per item and 18 trials per cat.
(3) Initialize a starting population by creating N members by a randomised manner.
