First, he thinks that it isn't enough for a legal system to rest on customary social rules, since law could not guide behavior without also being at least minimally clear, consistent, public, prospective and so on -- that is, without exhibiting to some degree those virtues collectively called "the rule of law".
The idea is that since punishment involves suffering, it should be inflicted as minimally as possible, consistent with the vague limits of cardinal desert and any other goals (including deterrence and incapacitation) that should be cited to help provide a full justification for punishment.
The results of the sensitivity analyses of the subpopulations of patients with lung lobectomy and total hysterectomy stratified by surgical approach (traditional open vs minimally invasive) were generally consistent with that of the overall corresponding study groups.
We observe that mapping is minimally impacted by errors, consistent with the permissive limit on the mapping accuracy of Novoalign, the aligner used to search IAdb (Table 3).
Total QOL (FACT-G) was not significantly lower in morbidly obese women [BMI ≥ 40: 78.0 (SD = 14.4) vs. BMI < 40: 83.7 (SD = 11.4); p = 0.14], however the difference was consistent with minimally important differences (5 6 points) [ 18].
Sipuleucel-T was evaluated in three randomized phase III studies [D9901: NCT00005947; D9902andNCT01133704; and Immunotherapy for Prostate Adenocarcinoma Treatment (IMPACT; D9902B): NCT00065442] of patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic mCRPC, and consistent improvements in OS, compared with placebo, were observed across the studies [ 5, 12, 13, 16].
PARP cleavage was reduced and delayed in BAG3KAVA and total PARP was only minimally reduced in BAG3LAAA cells, consistent with cellular protection.
Secondly, because the mean body weight before acute illness was 84 kg, a reasonable assumption is that the actual body weight used for dosing (at least at the beginning of dialysis therapy) was minimally 90 kg – a figure consistent with several recent reports from the critically ill AKI patient population.
For artificial membranes that minimally hydrate, the new method gave consistent but slightly lower permeability values.
More precisely, Cons Ex uses disjunctive logic programs with stable models semantics to specify and reason with the repairs, i.e. with the consistent virtual instances that minimally depart from the original database.
