To avoid the influence of re-registration of diagnoses, each of the 17 Charlson diagnostic categories could only contribute one time to the overall index.
* person-months were calculated from the number of children at risk at the start of the one-month observation interval, each contributing one month of person-time Pneumococcal carriage was more prevalent in DCCs than families and, consequently, acquisition of carriage in the index child was clearly associated with previous carriage in the DCC.
In the songbird system, a tight correspondence between specific actions (i.e., syllables) and HVC-RA connections is assured, since one HVC neuron only contributes to one time-point in the song (Hahnloser et al., 2002).
Ideally, each inversion delay time (T1) contributed one data point to the fit.
For example, Huidong County, in Guangdong province in southeast China, was a major production base for the date-rape drug ketamine, and at one time contributed one-third of the drug's circulation in all of China.
Lurie contributed ten million dollars; Zell contributed one million.
Phil the Thrill contributed one, too.
(b) Can you get others to contribute on a one-time or periodic basis?
Also, we were not able to identify readmissions, so a patient may contribute more than one time to the incidence of IHD.
In it, he thanks Henry Rago, then the editor, for a special 50th anniversary Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize and signs himself "a minor satirist who at one time contributed to the general liveliness by scratching a few barnacles off the language".
