Therefore, we were unable to determine how changes in HPSA designations over time may have influenced our findings.
The changes in school designation have largely catered for pupils' different ages and abilities, or been focused on raising the overall performance of schools, whilst pupils' natural propensity for the scientific, the arts, or the practical has received relatively little attention.
(These per-patient changes in response designation relative to EORTC are easiest to spot in Fig. 3b).
Cosmetic changes in hospital designation will not achieve the consistent quality of cancer service that is the cornerstone of the 'Calman' policy.
Functional genome redundancy may not only be altered by changes of copy number of intact or mutated genes but also by changes in the designation of genes and regulatory elements.
A major impediment to the study of VGS has been the inability to consistently and accurately assign VGS strains to specific species, which has resulted in numerous changes in species designation and classification schemes over time (7 ).
For simplicity, we also used the PTIs from 2007 to categorize import movements as high risk, though there were some changes in PTI designation, and in the underlying incidence of bTB, during the period of study.
Sean Kevelighan, a spokesman for Citi's consumer banking division, said that letter was a result of a change in flood designations.
Clades were next examined at the level of genus using the same criteria described previously, except that a uniform distance threshold was not applied since it would have resulted in massive changes in previous genus designations.
The new law ('Legislative decree 1090') included mechanisms aimed at opening Amazonia for new investment, such as forest concessions solicited through private initiative, and it also enabled drastic changes in land-use designations.
