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High practical support also contributed to a favourable change in physical activity.

Because we used administrative data lacking clinical detail, we had no information for evaluating a patient's clinical state at the time of blood culturing or about potential empirical antibiotic treatment in patients with negative blood cultures, which could have contributed to a favourable prognosis.

This approach provides greater flexibility to companies in interpreting and adopting government guidelines and thus contributes to a favourable business environment (Choi and Aguilera 2009).

Students feel that a positive relationship with the clinical educator contributes to a favourable learning environment [ 75] and this is reflected in a higher score on the OCTQ.

Cisplatin is a common chemotherapy used to treat ovarian cancer among others and one could envision that chemosensitivity maintained by elevated levels of miR-16 during the chemotherapy contributes to a favourable outcome in our LOS subjects.

Proanthocyanidins may thus contribute to a favourable effect of vegetables on endometrial cancer risk, although other micronutrients and food components present in vegetables should also be considered (Jain et al, 2000; McCann et al, 2000; Xu et al, 2007; Pelucchi et al, 2008; Bandera et al, 2009a).

Since mild diastolic changes have more questionable clinical significance, 31 though discrimination of such mild cases would require technological means that were unavailable in our study such as study of pulmonary veins flow, 18 this could have contributed to a less favourable performance of the clinical diagnosis in this setting.

Improved trading at ABF's sugar business and more favourable currency movements also contributed to a statement that the company said would increase confidence in its prospects.

16 41 The Aarogyasri scheme may have contributed to the more favourable trajectory in AP directly and indirectly, in that the scheme may have contributed to a reduction in the prices of interventions and an increase in competition among healthcare providers.

Increasing the ionic strength or [Na+] in the reaction mixture may contribute to a kinetically favourable binding environment.

Unnecessary use of these highly sensitive examinations will produce numerous false positive results[ 13], which can create a labelling effect for the clinician and his patient that can in itself contribute to a less favourable prognosis[ 15].