For example, tender joints and patient's assessment of disease activity may be exaggerated in certain concomitant diseases such as fibromyalgia; or when erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is employed, diseases with abnormalities of the ESR may influence the score.
Half of the patients had low levels of disease activity and few physical signs of disease (for example, tender swollen joints, restrictions in joint motion, and local growth disturbances).
Efficacy results at 52 weeks showed a significant response in clinical measures of disease activity (for example, tender joint counts) and significant differences between adalimumab and placebo in radiographic end points (namely Sharp score, erosion score, joint-space narrowing score) [ 10].
Practical application is explored through four example tenders encompassing five metrics which demonstrate substantial variation from the lessons identified.
"Now this," he said quietly, "is a great example of tender loving care".
Not only do computers rarely solicit bribes but they make corruption more difficult by, for example, making tender documents readily available.All very well, say the critics: but what about the countryside?
For example, a tender offer can simply be extended for another five business days for months at a time if there is not enough shareholder support, while a merger cannot be so easily extended.
The cooked section brings us green beans, mint, lemon, camomile and dill; carrots are glazed in ginger, orange, coriander and linseed; while the potato salad is no ordinary example, blending tender new potatoes with black and yellow mustard seeds, capers, pickles, dill, chives and Dijon mustard – there are 15 ingredient altogether, including camomile tea.
A basic roast chicken, for example, was as tender as it gets, with a crispy, golden, herb-crusted skin.
This is expressed, for example, in the tender craftsmanship and reverently updated traditionalism of a Seder plate made of silver, glass and mahogany by Amy Klein Reichert.
In developing countries, Transparency International's new idea is to set up bribe-free zones, grandly termed "islands of integrity", where all participants in, for example, a public tender, would publicly pledge to pay no bribes.
