This has been reported in studies evaluating hypothetical willingness to use microbicides [ 11– 15], microbicide acceptability based on the use of surrogate products [ 16– 20], as well as trials evaluating the acceptability of candidate microbicides [ 5, 21– 23].
Interviews explored preparation and training for ESTEEM; expectations, experiences and views held by staff of setting up and running triage; acceptability of triage to staff, problems, solutions and staff members' hypothetical willingness to use triage following completion of the study.
Applying composition-based statistics when one of the sequences is a hypothetical amino acid sequence, however, presents a challenge not present when both sequences are proteins – it is not obvious which parts of the hypothetical sequence to use when computing the composition.
For more accurate applications, it is no longer necessary to use hypothetical random field model of pavement surface.
The second major tax bias is Congress' choosing to use hypothetical revenues as its baseline for defining a tax increase instead of using the actual or likely tax burden.
We opted to use hypothetical rewards for ethical and practical reasons, and on the basis of previous studies that obtained comparable results from delay discounting tasks when real versus hypothetical rewards were used 45– 45.
However, this study had to use hypothetical scenarios to address the problem of confounding by smoking behaviour (Shebl et al, 2010), which is a risk factor for both pulmonary infections (notably TB (Lin et al, 2007; Gajalakshmi and Peto, 2009)) and lung cancer.
The group was then asked questions regarding (1) their perceptions of risk as the disease spread around the world and eventually arrived in Vancouver, and (2) their concerns, questions and attitudes about, and willingness to use, hypothetical new vaccines developed to prevent the disease.
Harvard Law School professors love to use hypotheticals in their classes.
To use a hypothetical example, a graduate of North Carolina State who scored a 1200 on the SAT makes as much, on average, as a Duke graduate with a 1200.
