Case and control files, consisting of a unique identification number for the township of each child and the date of hospitalization, were constructed for HIV-infected (cases) and uninfected (controls) children hospitalized with measles.
Given the absence of a unique identification number for linking mothers and newborns listed in the different registers, matching was carried out individually by a combination of mother's identifier details (name, age, husband's name, address) and childbirth information (type of delivery, date of birth, sex of baby).
Confidentiality was maintained by the allocation of a unique identification number, necessary for matching pre- and post-course responses.
These are conserved patterns present in β-lactamase families, which may act as an unique identification fingerprints for a β-lactamase family (20).
For GEMS, a unique identification number was assigned to each household surveyed for the HUAS (original and the Lite rounds), to each child enrolled as a case or control for the case/control study, and to each laboratory sample that was collected from each child enrolled.
Additionally, all emails contained the eligibility criteria for participating physicians, the opening and closing dates for access to the survey, and a unique identification number for each participant.
Redundancy in transcript databases also makes it difficult to obtain a unique identification for sequence tags, which are relatively short.
For each such group present, a unique identification number was allocated and labeled D1, D2 and so on.
Drawing upon PC technology, the TuneBase locates a unique identification code for each CD and automatically goes online to the Compact Disc Database, which contains all the information a CD would ordinarily display on its cover, like the name of the artist, the song titles, album cover art and liner notes.
The software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani, now in charge of setting up a unique identification system for all Indian citizens, has been a vocal critic of the simplistic nature of Hazare's campaign, arguing that one law and one institution alone can't eliminate corruption.
