NBC's Web site, www.nbcolympics.com, will carry instantaneous scores (and bios, analysis, diagrams and photographs) but no video, leaving each and every moving image of prime-time sports to NBC's discretionary use.
The primary outcome of this analysis was the 2-week average AM instantaneous total symptom score expressed as a mean change from baseline.
The goats were video recorded for 48 h in the end of each experimental period and the behaviour and position in the pen were scored using instantaneous sampling at 15 min intervals.
The end point of 24-hour efficacy was assessed by the mean change from baseline in the average AM instantaneous total symptom score (TSS) over the treatment period.
In addition, day 2 AM instantaneous total symptom scores were analyzed to assess the effectiveness of desloratadine 24 hours after the first dose.
Efficacy was maintained 24 hours after administration of the first dose (day 2 assessment) when once-daily desloratadine doses of 5, 7.5, 10, and 20 mg significantly reduced AM instantaneous total symptom scores compared with placebo (P <.01; Figure 2).
The changes from baseline in subject-evaluated AM instantaneous total symptom scores averaged over the 2-week treatment period for once-daily desloratadine doses of 5, 7.5, 10, and 20 mg were all superior to placebo (P <.01; Figure 1); the 2.5-mg dose was numerically superior to placebo (P = not significant).
We scored the companion's behavior using the instantaneous sampling procedure described above.
Social interactions were scored continuously for 6 h during daytime while resting behaviour was scored using instantaneous sampling every 10 min during the entire 24 h.
Operating in the frictionless ether of the modern world (with its freedom of movement, its free market, its electronic nervous system of instantaneous communication and information), a score of terrorists turned the materials of that world against it.
