At designated family duty stations, selected NETI participants may be able to bring their recognized family members/dependents and be eligible to certain defined entitlements.
Remember, companies that offer flex-spend benefits have always had leeway to define eligible expenses more restrictively than the government does.
They fully recognize that the Department of Defense possesses the "regulatory flexibility" to define eligible beneficiaries, and recommend that they do so after the implementation of DADT repeal.
A geographic information system was used to define eligible wells and surrounding homesteads.
Offset terms were incorporated into models using the SAS procedure, PROC GENMOD, to account for the sampling probabilities used to define eligible cases and controls [ 15].
More importantly and especially noteworthy for future demonstration studies of NAATs in sputum smear-negative populations, the lower sensitivity we observed could be explained by the higher sensitivity of sputum smear microscopy (33% in the previous study vs. 66% in our study) and mycobacterial culture (71% in the previous study vs. 94% in our study) used to define the eligible population [26].
The bulk of ovarian cancers occur in the general population, and age greater than 50 years and postmenopausal status have been used to define those eligible for screening.
Moreover, direct access to CT which, according to the protocol, together with time of onset was necessary to define the eligible stroke patients[ 17], was not available in the whole study population.
In all potentially eligible patients, CT was performed to define the location and extent of hepatic tumour involvement, followed by biopsy of one of the metastases, which was subject to a separate process of informed consent.
"The voter registration process has become more cumbersome and difficult as there's been a competition to define who is eligible to vote," said Dan A. Lewis, director of Northwestern University's Center for Civic Engagement, which started incorporating voter registration into its freshman orientation last year.
