But Mara T. Patermaster, the director of the charity program, said last week that the program required diligent efforts from participants.
Mr. Wurtzel of NBC said there was no guarantee that participants were diligent about logging in and out of the Nielsen machines.
These challenges were overcome by taking an adaptive approach that included refining recruitment processes, being flexible in scheduling, cross-communicating between study teams for the diligent follow-up of participants, and identifying and subsequently augmenting resources in problem areas.
We are grateful to Yasuyuki Takeshima for his technical assistance and our participants for their diligent cooperation.
We give special thanks to our colleagues at community health centers who facilitated the successful attainment of the study recruitment goals including Garry Welch, PhD., Michael Grey, MD, MPH, Orlando Torres, MD, Jose Azocar, MD, Katharine Barnard, MD and Norma Santiago; and to our coordinators, assessors and interventionists for their diligent work with the study participants.
The research effort might have benefited from the fact that the doctors who participated were diligent about taking their pills, and the researchers suggested that the effect of multivitamin use might have been muted because the participants were health-conscious to begin with.
As one participant said: I'm really diligent about [about antibiotics], well, I try to be, about what I can do on charts.
Thus, participants were reminded to be careful and diligent while doing the task.
We would like to thank field workers of the study, study participants, and the health department for their diligent work during data collection, and facilitating the conduct of this study.
Hentoff recalled being "stunned" upon discovering that one of her kindest and most diligent students before joining Circus Harmony, was not only a prolific "street kid," but once a participant in the infamous Knock-out Game.
