Representatives of AT&T and American Express said the two companies sometimes offered incentives -- which they characterized as a standard practice -- in co-marketing deals with other entities, but declined to be specific.
To test whether SNR differences were due to variation in the mean signal intensity rather than local noise characteristics (noise was characterized as the standard deviation of the signal intensity), a two-way ANOVA verified a significant effect of modality on the noise (F2,84 = 703, p<0.001), but no effect of ROI (F6,84 = 3.33, p = 0.07) with an insignificant interaction (F2,84 = 1.2, p = 0.28).
Continuous variables were characterized as means, standard deviations, medians, and ranges.
For the majority of stage II colon cancer patients, who would be characterized as having standard risk, there has been a major need for better prediction of individual recurrence risk [ 6].
The methods used here could be characterized as "non-standard" in the sense that typical procedures, especially in the case of SG and TTO, were modified to overcome existing cultural and ethical barriers.
Group statistics were characterized as mean ± standard deviation.
Recent data suggest that the intrathoracic blood volume index (ITBI) determined by thermodilution can be characterized as the gold standard for the evaluation of a patient's volume status.
Participants were characterized as cognitively normal using standard neuropsychological assessment conducted prior to study initiation.
PathText 2 currently supports SBML, which is the primary format used for major pathway repositories such as BioModels (Novere et al., 2006) and has been characterized as the most successful standard model exchange format for encoding pathway models (Li et al., 2010).
Islamic law is characterized as a series of standards that are religious and moral in nature and that are designed to establish and to explain appropriate conduct of the believers of Islam.
