One of Mitford's most widely read books was Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956), a volume of essays of which she was coeditor and which brought to the attention of the world the distinction between linguistic usages that are U (upper class) and those that are non-U (not upper class).
This study has two components: 1) an enquiry to experts about critical characteristics of a classification for CS, and 2) a systematic review of the literature to identify and critically appraise available classifications.
In the first cycle (or the preinformed consent cycle), the patient communicates the clinical enquiry together with relevant phenotypic characteristics and family history to the physician, whereas the physician assesses the patients' needs and his/her genetic literacy (step 1).
Thus, on one side of the dispute, there were ranged philosophers who took their stand upon what has been called "the unity of science" and who insisted that the categories and procedures appropriate to the human studies do not enjoy a unique or privileged status that somehow sets them apart from those characteristic of systematic empirical enquiry in other domains.
Except for the acute physiology and chronic health enquiry II (APACHE II) score, the baseline characteristics showed no significant differences between the two groups (Table 1).
(ID 19, primary infertility, aged 37 years) A consultation with a Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner entailed enquiry of women's general health, menstrual history, lifestyle characteristics such as diet, and examination of pulse and tongue.
For each enquiry record, all file records are compared with respect to characteristics that are present in or logically related to both types of records.
The characteristics of participants who were asked both general and checklist enquiries and the subgroup who took part in the in-depth interviews (and subsequent focus group discussions) are given in Table 1.
Baseline characteristics, including age, gender, body mass index, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Enquiry II (APACHE II) score and computed tomography (CT) severity index, were also collected and recorded.
However, because the causative mechanisms underlying LOH mutations in cancer cells yet remain to be elucidated, enquiry into the nature of these mechanisms based on a comprehensive examination of the characteristics of LOHs in multiple types of cancers has become a necessity.
This article examines briefly, first, the place of urban morphology within geography and its constituent characteristics; and second, the development of urban morphology as a field of geographical enquiry and the emergence of different 'schools' or traditions.
