If the study design implies that the control group will have to consume a product that is not part of their daily diet, this induces an interference that might invalidate the outcomes of the experiment.
This editor judged the criticism to be major (might invalidate the paper) in 34 cases (32%) compared with 54 cases (51%) for the other editor.
The announcement's timing has stirred speculation here that the court might invalidate the first round of the elections and require a revote.
The lecture suggests that if a broadening of the economic model invalidated the sum of utilities justification of free markets, a further broadening might invalidate the Pareto efficiency justification of unregulated markets.
And people who handle their own wills must be careful to avoid any mistakes that might invalidate the documents, like unstapling the pages or signing at a different time than the witnesses, he said.
These reconfigurations disrupts the existing data aggregation overlay and might invalidate the existing routes of low-priority bindings.
We refrained from using ad hoc sampling methods for r ≥ 6 as they do not guarantee a uniform distribution, and the inherent biases might invalidate the results.
Back in 2011, the judge in the case also made reference to a 1994 video produced by Knight Ridder, which also showed an iPad-like device that he thought might invalidate the Apple patent.
15 Since we are working with differences, the exclusion of these two groups might invalidate the analysis only if the proportion of children not residing with the mother had changed during the recession period between 2007 2010, thus making the dependent variable in the treatment group differ in some way from the control group.
When the test is ordered to protect health care workers rather than to benefit the patient, the patient must be informed of the true purpose of the test: special care must be taken to avoid claims of fraud or duress that might invalidate the patient's consent.
On Tuesday Europe's top court, the ECJ, will rule on whether the 'Safe Harbor' agreement that governs data sharing between Europe and the U.S. affords Europeans enough privacy protections — with the possibility that the court might invalidate the current agreement.
