This will not be interpreted as requiring that the disease be diagnosed in the presumptive period, but only that there be then shown by acceptable medical or lay evidence characteristic manifestations of the disease to the required degree, followed without unreasonable time lapse by definite diagnosis.
After controlling for the whole set of covariates, we do not find much evidence of characteristics of the household head affecting children's time allocation.
As said earlier, the results with reading or math scores as dependent variables instead of scientific literacy are substantially the same, which is additional evidence that characteristics of educational systems are relevant for educational outcomes.
Taken together, these findings provide strong evidence that characteristics of the female reproductive tract can affect the fertilization success of males.
To determine whether the macrophages evidence the characteristics of M2-Mϕs, the expression of macrophage mannose receptors was routinely estimated via RT-PCR [ 13].
There is conflicting evidence regarding characteristics of patients most likely to have poor outcomes after referral to a multidisciplinary weight loss clinic.
There is considerable evidence that characteristics of families, and particularly parent-child relationships, have a major influence on young people's lives and sexual decision-making (Mmari and Blum 2009; Roche, Ahmed, and Blum 2008).
Other factors which influenced policy development included: i) use of evidence and the characteristics of evidence used in policymaking; ii) the policy process utilized and the role and relationship of actors; and iii) the ideologies of policy actors and ideologies of those who the policy is targeted at [ 1, 3, 14].
In addition to these characteristics, comprehensiveness, context relevance, and representativeness of evidence were considered characteristics of robust evidence in our study.
A coding tree was used to code the transcriptions according to relevant thematic areas, such as (1) respondents perception of evidence, (2) types and characteristics of evidence, (3) role of different types of evidence, (4) actors, and (5) contextual influences on evidence and policy processes.
