The three kinds of modification we evaluated were content modification (topics and workshops selected based on feedback from the audience), audience modification (inclusion of other health providers as a team) and "in-process" modification (modification mostly in delivery technique and response to audience interaction using the feedback from the first symposium to the next).
To consider possible effect modification, we evaluated associations by subgroups defined as above or below the median for age, BMI, years of smoking, number of cigarettes smoked per day, alcohol intake and serum cholesterol.
To further evaluate if H. pylori might use its type IV secretion system to deliver DNA into host cells [18] and trigger this histone modification, we evaluate the type I IFN (IFN α/β) signaling pathway activation upon bacterial stimulation, which is the hallmark of cellular response to foreign DNA stimulation [19].
The second criterion we used was the semiquantitation score defined by Capuzzo et al. [ 7], with the modification that we evaluated membranous staining and determined four levels of intensity (0, 1+, 2+ and 3+) according to the instructions of the manufacturer (Dako).
To evaluate effect modification, we conducted analyses separately for subgroups defined by BMI (<25, 25 30 and >30) at the baseline interview and stage of breast cancer (local, regional or remote) at diagnosis.
To evaluate effect modification, we conducted analyses separately for subgroups defined by BMI (<25, 25 30, >30) at the baseline interview and stage of breast cancer (local, regional or distant) at diagnosis.
To evaluate effect modification, we generated cross-product terms for the six pairwise combinations of the four variables significantly associated with EBV positivity (i.e., age at diagnosis, sex, anatomic subsite, and histologic type).
To investigate sources of local misfit in the common factor model, we evaluated modification indices above 100 to identify only major sources of misfit.
To explore the possibility of effect modification by subject characteristics, we evaluated stratum-specific estimates of effect for age categories and genders.
To evaluate the effect modification, we systematically compared effect estimates on different levels of covariates.
In the present study, we evaluated modifications to the NK cell repertoire during a therapeutic DNA vaccination trial conducted in chronically HBV-infected patients, and tried to correlate these modifications to the induction of an adaptive immune response.
