A backward selection procedure with a removal criterion of p>0.10 was performed in the multivariate Cox regression analysis in order to identify significant factors among examined biomarkers, basic clinicopathological characteristics (categorized as given in Additional file 2: Table S1) and treatment group.
Patients with chronic lung conditions, such as pulmonary fibrosis, were categorized as a single group, given the observed frequency in this study of concurrence of this condition with P. jirovecii infection.
For those behind the wheel, their work is categorized as a high risk occupation given the long periods of isolation, time pressures, lack of sleep, exposure to negative stereotyping, driving stresses, financial pressures and violence.
Respondents were also asked if they were ever given an FOBT kit (categorized as yes vs. no), and those who had received an FOBT kit were then asked if they had returned the last kit (categorized as yes vs. no).
Officials eventually pointed to Mr. Ramadan's donations of about $1,300 from 1998 to 2002 to a Swiss-based charity that the Treasury Department later categorized as a terrorist organization because it gave money to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group.
Protein structural class prediction problem is defined as categorizing a given protein into one of the four structural classes namely, all- α, all- β, α + β, and α/ β [ 1].
The present task is best categorized as an uninformed search for destinations, given the lack of environmental knowledge at the onset of the wayfinding task.
Using a reference database containing ≈180 group A streptococcal emm sequence types, we categorized an isolate as a given emm type if it had >92% identity over the first 30 codons encoding the processed M protein with one of the reference emm types (21 ).
The authors compiled it with admirable care, but the data set can at best be categorized as medium quality, given that variability between laboratories limits the reproducibility of the underlying assay to only about 85%[266, 27].
Only 58% of the patients that the physiotherapists categorized as overweight were given information and advice about weight reduction.
