For Brazil, Venezuela holds longer-term strategic importance, in the form of its oil reserves, estimated to be among the world's largest.
Although TFA as applied here provides a highly efficient data reduction method, capturing the seasonality of a time series for a synoptic year, it assumes that there were no longer-term cycles of any importance, or directional changes over time.
Our study illustrates the importance of longer-term studies to detect potential changes in herpetofaunal communities that may not be immediately apparent after disturbances, and highlights the importance of including multiple taxa for a balanced perspective when weighing impacts of forest management activities.
Contemporary clinical trials have recognized the importance of longer-term outcomes but have rarely been powered to achieve that aim.
This finding underlines the importance of longer-term follow-up imaging to define response accurately.
This does not diminish the importance of longer-term aquifer research and planning and the development of national institutions to undertake these tasks.
However, this approach focused on demonstrating short-term results generally fails to consider the importance of longer-term investments in health infrastructure, personnel development, or institutional capacity-building within the government.
Even among those who receive evidence-based treatments, adherence to recommendations is often poor, with negative implications for treatment outcomes [ 3, 4], suggesting the importance of longer-term adherence support for those patients attempting actively to quit smoking.
Second, Chandler et al. (19) have robustly demonstrated the importance of longer-term observation when using systemically administered AAV vectors during the neonatal period to monitor for hepatic genotoxicity.
The importance of longer-term follow-up in patients enrolled into phase I studies has been underestimated previously, and may lead to an under-recognition of important adverse events.
