I didn't really think about Christmas in the run-up because I would have been upset, so I was trying to minimise the days of sorrow, I suppose.
Securing my wife's presence on the big bench seat behind me had meant agreeing to an ambitious itinerary, one which minimised driving days – and camping stops – between destinations offering "a proper bed in a proper house", my parents' place in the Ligurian hills, and our friends' villa in Umbria.
Participants who meet inclusion criteria will be asked to reduce their drinking to "low risk" levels as recommended by NHMRC [ 66] (males up to 4 standard drinks per day and women up to 2 standard drinks per day) for three days to minimise the transient effects of alcohol use on functioning (e.g., intoxication, anxiety, irritability, sadness and depressed mood) [ 23, 71].
31 The short window of time to recall details of infection in our study (7 days) minimises this recall bias.
For constant progression to PID, a follow-up time of 294 days minimises the sample size needed to 4574 per group with a RR of 0.358 and a PID incidence of 0.0056 per year.
For progression to PID at the end, a follow-up time of 328 days minimises the sample size needed to 4106 per group with a RR of 0.359 and a PID incidence of 0.0063 per year.
The major factor in routing is minimising travel time and days off.
23 It will be completed for 2 days only, minimising the burden on participants.
We only included patients who developed acute kidney injury within the first seven postoperative days, thereby minimising the risk of including other causes of acute kidney injury.
At the seventh week, vaginal smears were taken from each rat in the groups at approximately the same time of the day between 8 am-10 am over a period of four days, to minimise the incidence of transitional and missed stages.
