And a variety of laboratory experiments have shown that when a person is excluded, even if for a brief time in something as inconsequential as a silly computer game, they feel worse about themselves and experience an all-around sour mood.
Exclusion criteria included: active bleeding; current alcohol intake (patients with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis were excluded even if abstinent for at least 6 months prior to endoscopy); previous endoscopic sclerosis or band ligation of EV; previous surgery for portal hypertension or transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic stent shunt placement.
Articles examining prognostic factors as a secondary objective were also excluded; for example, studies with a primary objective to assess a treatment effect were excluded, even if they adjusted for prognostic factors or looked at how prognostic factors predicted treatment response.
The possibility of residual confounding factors could not be excluded even though the results were adjusted for multivariate covariates.
Likewise, introgression of mitochondrial DNA cannot be completely excluded, even if there is no evidence for admixture of multilocus markers, because maternally inherited DNA like mitochondrial DNA may introgress much more rapidly through prezygotic barriers than biparentally inherited DNA [ 7, 8].
The new warnings also state for the first time that the drugs' risks for cancer patients cannot be excluded even at doses previously considered safe and routinely used.
Safeco, for example, increasingly found Ginnie Mae bonds too confining an investment niche -- one that excluded even the obligations of the company's cousins, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Mitting is proposing hearing the case in closed session, where the public are excluded and even lawyers for the claimant may not be present.
He is also intensely loyal to Mayor Giuliani, to the extent that people not in current favor with the administration may be excluded from ribbon cuttings, even for projects they helped get off the ground.
From a control theory standpoint, putting the system in this form converts the performance analysis problem to the study of the stability of the loop in Figure 5. SSV is a worst-case analysis that excludes a therapy if, even for a single parametric combination within the defined uncertainty ranges, it fails to meet the performance specifications defined by the envelope.
