However, this patient was considered as SMM based on prevailing criteria at the time and was included in this study.
In such a case, the driving and prevailing criteria for logistics networks design will be a premium effort toward efficiency and specialization.
In 1978, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERCC) first created the now prevailing criteria for tight sandstone gas reservoirs with the in situ permeability of less than 0.1 × 10−3 μm2.
We retrospectively confirmed the length of gestation (determined by ultrasonography in 62.7% of preterm infants and 53.1% of controls) (15) and diagnoses of maternal gestational diabetes, hypertension (gestational or chronic), or preeclampsia (including superimposed) according to prevailing criteria by reviewing original hospital records (17, 18).
The latter thus becomes the prevailing criterion.
Because knowledge advances through the discovery and advocacy of new philosophical methods and because these diverse methods depend for their validity on prevailing philosophical criteria of truth, meaning, and importance, the crucial philosophical quarrels of the 16th and 17th centuries were at bottom quarrels about method.
It is almost impossible to maintain the inclusion and exclusion criteria and other conditions prevailing in a controlled study under everyday conditions.
Eighteen districts in five provinces – Phongsaly, Luang Namtha, Luangprabang, Oudomxay and Savannakhet – have been selected to receive the support, based on criteria such as the prevailing high rates of disease and stunting among children, and low utilization of existing health facilities.
While the evidence that genetics plays a major role in who develops PsA has been present for many years, the identification of the genes responsible for conferring PsA has been a lengthy preoccupation for a number of investigators that was limited by the available technology, prevailing diagnostic criteria for PsA and the study size.
They feared that their work would be subjected to criteria quite different from those prevailing when they began it [ 12].
