After all, we don't really pick the stocks in our flagship fund; instead, they are chosen by the eight-member index committee at Standard & Poor's.
Two others, the Altria Group and Honeywell International, will be dropped from the 30-member index, the oldest and single most-watched gauge of stock performance in the world.
Michael assigns each staff member an index card with a different race written on it.
He eventually assigns each staff member an index card with a different race on it, causing tempers to slowly simmer until they finally snap.
Households were recruited by general practitioners (GP) when one member (the index patient) aged over 5 years old had a medical visit with the GP for symptoms lasting less than 48 hours, combining temperature over 37.8°C and cough, and a positive rapid test for influenza A (Quick View® Influenza A+B Test, Quidel Corp., San Diego, CA, USA).
‡Family member of index case-patient.
Approximately 12% of close contacts were household member of index case-patients (spouse or other household member), and aircraft passengers accounted for 44% of close contacts.
Since all men in our study were enrolled with a family member (the index women) the impact of partner support on retention in men could not be directly assessed in our sample.
THE EIGHT-MEMBER S&P index committee — pictured in the April 7,1997 issue — holds enormous power.
The aim of the study is to explore the reliability of the high resolution melting (HRM) analysis for the identification of BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers among the family members of index patient (IP) and for distinguishing the presence of two or more genetic variants within the same amplicon.
Mutation screening was performed for all available family members of index cases in which a DES variant was detected.
