But subsequent studies failed to confirm the initial findings.
The Italian fencing federation was awaiting results of testing of Baldini's B sample to see if it would confirm the initial positive finding.
Landis said last week that he was expecting the worst because backup samples, or B samples, almost always confirm the initial result.
Recently, a well-controlled and much larger trial failed to confirm the initial findings: breast cancer support groups, while improving the mental health of participants, do not seem to extend patients' lives.
A leader of China's track and field team, Feng Shuyong, said tests at a hospital were needed to confirm the initial diagnosis that Liu had torn his right Achilles tendon.
The two new trials sponsored by Roche for this purpose showed a much smaller effect of the drug, so small, that the committee voted 13-0 thet the studies did not confirm the initial benefit.
Not only do B samples rarely fail to confirm the initial result, but the test that showed the synthetic drug, the carbon isotope ratio test, also is "powerful evidence that's pretty definitive," said David Cowan, a professor at King's College London and director of the antidoping lab there.
Our results partially confirm the initial hypothesis.
The results show significant correlations between selected variables, some of which confirm the initial research hypothesis.
This can be distinguished from theoretical replication where contrasting propositions aim to confirm the initial findings.
However, a long-term follow-up is necessary to confirm the initial findings of this study.
