Transcripts were considered complete on the 3' end if: 1. the Comment field contained the phrase: "COMPLETENESS: full length" or "COMPLETENESS: complete on the 3' end"; or 2. the Feature table contained the keys "polyA_signal" or "polyA_site".
The pre-test was done on 66 mothers (5% of the study sample size), and the questionnaire was assessed for its completeness, clarity, and length.
Slight negative correlations between variant call completeness and read length (Table 2) again likely reflect the difficulty in mapping longer reads, which results in lower coverage depth and decreased variant recovery.
Main Outcome Measures: Demographics; level and completeness of injury; rehabilitation length of stay (LOS); admission and discharge FIM™ scores; FIM change; and discharge location.
Haplotyping methods make trade-offs among cost, accuracy, length and completeness.
The SHCS has many strengths, including the length and completeness of follow-up and the good representation of women and different HIV-transmission categories (The Swiss HIV Cohort Study, 2010).
Obviously, the length and completeness of the assembled unigenes were one main factor, which can be seen from the increasing proportion of sequences with matches in the NR database as the length of uingenes increased.
Strengths of the study include its prospective cohort design, use of centralised review of malignancy and biologic markers, inclusion of children from a wide geographic area, personal MF dosimetry, and the length and completeness of follow-up.
Issues that potentially affect external validity are considered to be the trial setting, the selection of patients and clinicians, differences between the trial protocol and routine practice, the relevance of outcome measures and the length and completeness of follow-up [ 9, 10].
In a previous Washington State study, researchers compared fetal death records with records from 16 hospitals and observed that although 92% of all fetal deaths of at least 20 weeks gestation were reported in the vital records, the level of completeness varied by gestational length, from 78% for those of 20 23 weeks gestation, to 96% for those of 36 39 weeks gestation (Harter et al. 1986).
