We cannot totally exclude that some studies with poor diagnostic performance may have remained unpublished and not even presented in major meetings.
The saints did not wall themselves up in the smug, solitary and self-congratulatory comfort of gated communities, but rather they broke down barriers that excluded the poor, and reached out to them, stood with them and raised up their dignity.
In order to exclude the possibility that poor outcomes were primarily related to transfusion, rather than anemia, we repeated our analysis after excluding the 10 transfused patients from the multivariate models.
In addition, we cannot exclude the possibility that poor collection techniques of samples with low viral loads resulted in failure to detect WUPyV.
However, this does not exclude the possibility that poor or delayed oesophageal clearance of refluxate might contribute to the risk of laryngeal and pharyngeal exposure to refluxate or provocation of a broncho-oesophageal reflex.
Sullivan et al. found that social functioning in their sample was associated with ToM (as measured by the Hinting task) and verbal IQ, but not with other general cognitive measures or a measure of negative symptoms that excluded symptoms that overlapped with poor social functioning (e.g. asociality).
Countries in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean showed the most progress in reducing hunger, thanks in part to economic growth that didn't exclude the poor, investments in agriculture and political stability, the agencies said in their annual State of Food Insecurity report.
It is doubly unfortunate, then, that poor people are often socially excluded precisely because they are poor.
It is not immediately obvious why the World Bank is supporting private schools in low-income countries when the evidence is that they exclude the poorest and, in particular, girls.
For example, schemes such those in Bangladesh, India and Nepal that restricted the benefits to sub-groups such as women with fewer than two previous children in order to fit with national government policies on family size, act to exclude the poorest families that have more children.
