The 20 stopgap spending measures passed over the last four years included no extraneous changes in budgeted programs.
These extraneous changes may be more subtle, but they impact our lives and our emotions on a daily basis.
We reported previously [ 5] on the use of a rpsL-tet(A) positive/negative-selection cassette (RT-cassette) [ 11] in a two-step counter-selection recombineering approach that enables the seamless creation of fosmid-based reporters devoid of undesired, extraneous sequence changes.
In essence, the practice of sample matching by data-derived indices constitutes a higher standard for a "true positive", requiring that its main effect (for psychiatric disorders) to rise above its potential colinearity with the major extraneous covariates (changes due to agonal stress).
Stauffer and Grimson [2] introduced an adaptive Gaussian mixture model, which is sensitive to the changes in dynamic scenes derived from illumination changes, extraneous events, etc. Rather than modelling the values of all the pixels of an image as one particular type of distribution, they modelled the values of each pixel as a mixture of Gaussians.
The Moodstocks technology relies on extracting a specific signature for each image and then matches the signatures despite extraneous variables like lighting changes, etc.
Given the concomitant changes in extraneous variables such as medication use and lifestyle risk factors that occurred around the interventions, it is difficult to ascertain which specific aspects of the intervention led to the improvements in blood pressure seen within these reviews and included studies.
Evaluation of changes to the health system, such as training staff and providing additional equipment, also needs to take account of, and measure if possible, unintended positive or negative consequences, as well as the impact of extraneous factors, such as a policy change, or change in the environment external to the heath system, such as extremes of climate.
The absence of a control group was not considered a significant threat to the internal validity of the experiment because the likelihood that extraneous factors account for the change was small[ 5].
With my merry band of collectors I compile a list of these extraneous and invasive phrases (subs please change to "Povs") gleaned from raw Guardian copy, agency wire pieces, or in their polished form in other newspapers/websites/radio bulletins.
