"We would not expect this to affect our discussions," a spokesman, Jeff Prescott, said.
Investec said: Recent US steel production data show deteriorating volumes over the last two months and we expect this to affect demand for Vesuvius.
We do not, however, expect this to affect qualitatively our conclusions.
Because the inclusion criteria were pragmatic, we did not expect this to affect the external validity.
Variations in patient compliance to postoperative instructions may have led to minor differences in effects on each individual patient; however, one would expect this to affect the patient's overall BMD in every zone, not in selected zones.
However, we do not expect this to affect our results since the study was designed to assess the effects of Chlamydia on pregnancy outcomes in a non-hospital based, low-risk population.
The proportion lost to follow-up was slightly higher in control (21%) than in intervention (19%) clusters, but we do not expect this to affect the estimations as the characteristics of these people were similar.
As seen above, much of the likely recent introgression between the species of the group is restricted to a few populations in secondary contact zones, so we do not expect this to affect the mitochondrial phylogeny.
It is plausible that body temperature is a causative variable as one would expect this to affect DNA mutation rates and there is a formula for mutations per site per unit time in terms of temperature and body mass [ 24].
We will exclude teenagers recruited to FNP, but do not expect this to greatly affect recruitment to ELSIPS.
Therefore, although there is a large range of ages in our study (6 25 years), we do not expect this to significantly affect our results.
