There are few examinations more intimate: my cheek often brushes theirs, and usually both of us, through politeness, end up holding our breath.
This study represents one of very few examinations of the stability of CHQ scores longitudinally.
Despite the proliferation of such programmes and their cost to government, there have been few examinations of their impact on the use of research.
Although two tetraploid species, G. hirsutum and G. barbadense, exist, few examinations of the latter have been made because it is less commonly cultivated.
However, few examinations have been made of the role of partner support specifically regarding sexual risk behavior among gay male couples.
Further, there have been few examinations of samples of gay couples which represent all couple serostatus types (concordant negative, discordant, concordant positive).
Despite the importance of health perceptions, there are few examinations of factors related to perceptions of diabetes control (7), and to our knowledge, no study has compared the factors related to perceived versus actual glucose control.
Finally, the excellent safety, robustness and reproducibility of abdominal MDCT angiography was shown in a clinical setting by the very small number of adverse events and very few examinations of limited quality.
Patients who were examined on the two scanners in a manner precluding response evaluation were excluded, whereas patients with one or few examinations performed on the scanner different from their baseline-scanner were included if elimination of the irregular examinations was possible without affecting response evaluation.
Research suggests the use of guidelines in oncology can reduce practice variation (Smith and Hillner, 2001; Ray-Coquard et al, 2005), yet there are very few examinations of the impact of oncology resources and computerised support systems on patient outcomes (Voeffray et al, 2006).
