Heterogeneity of the different patient populations studied and variations in methodology prevented the authors from conducting a formal quantitative data synthesis and analysis; hence their article is primarily a collation of published studies.
Collation of the present study with that of these authors is hampered however by numerous unknowns inherent to natural systems, such as the density of layer and interlayer Mn3+ in the initial phyllomanganate and the structural variety of natural tectomanganates [77, 78].
This was accomplished by the collation of macrophage microarray studies from a diverse group of private and public resources followed by validation and curation into a central database.
Unfortunately, this effort does not translate into strengthening the foundational system of relevant child-specific data generation, collation, and use for purposes of study and policy design.
JC was involved in the conception and design of this study, collation of data, the interpretation of the data; drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content; and provided final approval of the version to be published.
The collation of information from similar studies should lead to evidence-based recommendations.
TR carried out literature search, data extraction, critical review of included studies, collation of data into tables, and was primary author of the manuscript.
This tendency that Japanese die from cancer more than from circulatory system disease and that this is opposite for western people (although ERFC was a collation of over 100 prospective studies, about 90% of the participants were from North America or Europe), is also observed in the world statistics.
Collation of the results of this study together with existing but unpublished results of all other studies of medicinal plants of Kakamega forest, anecdotal and otherwise.
Polybius defines the historian's task as the study and collation of documents, acquaintance with relevant geographical features, and, finally, political experience (XII, 25e); of these the last two are the most essential.
