Strengths of the current study include its controlled, prospective, cohort design, stringent confirmation of HTLV-I– and -II infection status at baseline, and systematic ascertainment of disease outcomes.
Strengths of the study include its population-based design, the confirmation of PD diagnoses by a neurologist, and a comprehensive collection of pesticide exposure data allowing us to compare different measures of pesticide exposure.
Important strengths of our study include its large sample size, its prospective design, the confirmation of ovarian cancer cases, and the detailed information on menopausal status and ovarian cancer risk factors.
Because our study has a cross-sectional design, formal confirmation requires intervention studies with appropriate doses to elucidate whether vitamin D supplementation could be used to counter the worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
The strengths of the study include its prospective design, the confirmation of breast cancer cases through review of medical records, the centralized pathology review of specimens from benign biopsies before the development of breast cancer, and the detailed information on other breast cancer risk factors.
Though our explanatory model is not designed for confirmation of this, maintenance of professional autonomy, the involvement of professionals in changes and they being made to feel these changes as challenging may be factors that protect against professional burnout, independently of the organizational model.
If reason is designed to generate sound judgments, then it's hard to conceive of a more serious design flaw than confirmation bias.
Taguchi orthogonal arrays were used in the experimental design and a confirmation experiment was conducted.
The Taguchi orthogonal array was used in the experimental design and a confirmation experiment was conducted.
Meanwhile, considering the interference introduced by multi-flow coding, we design an extra confirmation process in our protocol.
By using the optimal design parameters, a confirmation test successfully verified that the N2-gas lubrication reduced coefficient of friction by 24%.
