Sentence examples for examination duration from inspiring English sources

Controlling for the endogeneity of outsourcing decision as well as the changes in the time resources available for an examiner, we find that the outsourcing of prior art search significantly decreases the frequency of appeals against both examiners' rejections and grant decisions and reduces the length of examination duration.

Finally, by incorporating a number of new determinants, we report a set of new findings about their effects on the examination duration for the three outcomes at SIPO.

In this study, we conduct a replication and extension of Harhoff and Wagner's (2009) work on the determinants of patent examination duration at the European Patent Office EPOO), using a rich dataset covering the population of about 1.1 million invention patent applications to China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) from 1993 to 2006.

Second, because of the considerable shortening of the total examination duration by eliminating the transmission scan, the patient's burden, in particular, the need to stay still, would be reduced.

The mean examination duration was 11 minutes for both eyes (range 6 16 minutes).

In order to minimise examination duration the order of sequences can be adjusted.

The locally condensed grid was split into two complementary randomized subsets with an approximately equal number of test points to achieve reasonable examination durations for the two sessions.

Consulting behaviour and number of examinations, duration of disease and variables regarding adherence to guidelines were evaluated, too.

Diagnosis of MTBI is based on physical and neurological examination findings, duration of unconsciousness (usually less than 30 minutes) and post-traumatic amnesia (PTA; usually less than 24 hours), and the Glasgow Coma Scale (MTBI sufferers have scores of 13 to 15).

A second limitation is the lack of information about some relevant screening procedures such as blood pressure measurement, BMI determination, foot examination, and duration of disease, not recorded in administrative databases; the latter, however, should not affect adherence to guidelines.

Patient characteristics, number of examinations, and duration of follow-up are summarised in Table  1.