A psychogenic, hysterical origin of the epidemic was established after excluding alternatives such as toxic reaction and encephalitis.
Important questions in the philosophy of logic such as: "why are there so many logics instead of just one?" (or even, instead of none), as for instance, raised in Epstein 1995, can be naturally counterposed by several other questions: if there are indeed many logics, are they excluding alternatives, or are they compatible?
That's lower than all but two of the 17 charter high schools (excluding alternative schools) that had graduation rates in 2017.
To confirm the diagnosis, as well as excluding alternative causes, several investigations are required; more investigations may be performed if the history is not typical or the patient is more likely to have an alternative problem: children, men, the elderly, or women who are not overweight.
Excluding alternative diagnoses is as important as positively identifying a vasculitis.
With 7 8 TMs, 156 (132 after excluding alternative transcripts) proteins were identified (see Additional file 3 for the list).
As such, the linear progression of marriage, motherhood and womanhood is being re/produced, excluding alternative forms of parenthood or voluntary childlessness [ 25].
As in earlier studies, malaria incidence was defined as any acute fever concurrent with malaria parasitemia, without excluding alternative causes of the fever through further laboratory tests.
The diagnostic work-up focused on excluding alternative diagnoses should be dictated by the presenting symptoms, and special attention should be given to signs of rheumatologic, infectious, immunologic, or hematologic abnormality.
Future analyses of this nature could be strengthened by excluding alternative explanations, including a wider range of falsification tests, or the use of a synthetic control (a composite of multiple regions), rather than a single control country.
These results clearly indicate that at least 3.1% of the genes in the japonica cultivar Nipponbare (1174 of 37 869 genes, excluding alternative variants) lack orthologs in indica and aus cultivars, mainly because of insertions or deletions.
