Like others in Jamaica and Cuba, the program is intended to pool athletes like Montsho from small countries and train them with elite coaches in a central location.
The 31-month-old fund, intended to pool the resources of governments and private donors, had been expected to solicit proposals for new programs in June.
The merger was intended to pool their resources for investments to expand online, capitalizing on the club's traditional appeal to customers looking for advice, said Markus Wilhelm, chief executive of Bookspan.
Market insurance is only intended to pool risk, which usefully allows all insured customers to smooth out their consumption over all future times, both good and bad.
If the included studies were sufficiently similar (i.e. comparable participants, interventions, and outcomes) we intended to pool the results using a fixed or random-effects meta-analysis, with standardised mean differences (SMDs) for continuous outcomes and odds ratios for binary outcomes, and calculate 95% confidence intervals for each outcome.
In addition, we intended to pool the response rates with response definitions as used in the studies.
South Africa's government employees' scheme intends to pool resources from a broad range of civil servants and aims to attract members from all income groups.
In so far it is important to compare the internal structure of the scale among countries to get an impression whether one should worry about compatibility if one intends to pool results of clinical studies across countries.
Gov. Craig Benson of New Hampshire, a Republican, said, "Minnesota, Hawaii and Tennessee intend to join the pool, with more states likely to follow".
Critical distance is particularly important if results of the MRS are intended to be pooled between different populations or regions, and less important if a study is planned as before-after-treatment-comparison in one country with only one language.
