In these later studies, language is deemed more formal or more informal according to linguistic aspects, such as the frequency of deictic words (Heylighen and Dewaele 2002), and cognitive aspects including the amount of attention paid to speech (Labov 1984).
We have deemed a formal uncertainty analysis to be beyond the scope of our investigation, in part because uncertainties have been discussed elsewhere [ 7] and in part because it is difficult to accurately quantify many core uncertainties.
On a "deeper level," as Mendelssohn puts it, he also takes issue with Spinoza for failing to account for what Mendelssohn deems the "formal" aspects of both corporeal and spiritual worlds.
The study was deemed exempt for formal review by our hospital's Institutional Review Board.
This study was deemed exempt from formal review by the regional ethics review board of Arnhem and Nijmegen, and approval was obtained from the institutional review board of the Radboud university medical center.
Because of this, it was not deemed necessary to obtain formal approval from an Institutional Review Board.
As no identifying personal information was collected, merely GPs opinions, the project was deemed exempt from a formal ethical permission procedure.
The study was deemed minimal risk and formal informed consent was not required, however all participants were provided with an information sheet about our research protocol.
The present project was reviewed by the regional ethics committee of the Capital Region of Denmark and deemed exempt from a formal evaluation (J H-3-2012-FSP45).
