This public body pulled this off in a shocking shroud of secrecy -- minimally meeting the legal requirements with a small legal notice buried in the Sunday classifieds, with nothing on its website and no word to reporters until moments before the vote.
Controls must minimally meet the following criteria: 1) have been exposed to a traumatic event that meets the DSM-IV A1 criterion according to the BTQ and 2) endorse less than four symptoms on the L-PTSD screen.
The scale elements met the minimally acceptable disagreement level (ADM ≤ 0.56 or K free > 0.40) but were below the acceptable 0.8 value of CVI and needed to be revised or eliminated according to the experts' suggestions.
We used the guidelines provided in the US Surgeon General's 1996 report as the basis for collapsing this variable so as to specifically compare those who had an energy expenditure of less than 1,000 Kcal per week to those who met the minimally recommended 1,000 Kcal of weekly energy expenditure [ 24].
Fifty-four percent of nursing homes do not meet minimally adequate staff levels, and 92 percent have less staff than necessary to give optimal care.
But no one -- no coach, NCAA official or anyone else involved in college athletics -- would ever say that such a small proportion of players meets minimally acceptable academic standards.
The proportion of patients meeting minimally important changes (MICs) in individual PRO scores was determined using published recommendations where available.
13 Today's technology has made available an increasing array of options, both surgical and minimally invasive, to meet these desires and to maintain a more youthful appearance.
However, unlike the pioneering genome sequence projects, these smaller 'omics' datasets are usually minimally annotated to meet the needs of a specific research goal, and are rarely available or searchable in assembled or annotated form.
In cell culture, MSCs minimally have to meet the following criteria: (i) adherence to plastic, (ii) the expression of specific cell surface markers, including CD90 (THY-1), CD105 and CD166 and (iii) potential to differentiate into osteoblasts, adipocytes and chondroblasts (Dominici et al., 2006).
In keeping with the receipt of diagnostic information in other medical contexts (e.g., Heath, 1992) this information is not received as news, but rather is minimally receipted by the daughter and met with silence from the patient.
