To test whether associations between meat consumption and the risk of joint replacement were modified by country of birth, gender or educational level, interactions between country of birth, gender or educational level and meat consumption were fitted, and tested using the likelihood ratio test.
However, van Lenthe et al. (2005), in a study of neighbourhood unemployment and mortality in five European countries and the US, found no evidence that the association between these variables was modified by country context.
On Sunday, Venezuelans voted down a plan that would have modified the country's constitution and strengthened Chavez's power.
The documents also detail Schlumberger staff modifying country codes to avoid references to Iran and Sudan, as well as arranging equipment "swaps" to facilitate US-made equipment getting to sites in Iran and Sudan, by virtue of sending new equipment to permitted countries (like Jordan), who didn't need it, so as to allow their second-hand machinery to be sent on to the barred nations.
It must be assumed that the SSD is modified by country-specific factors.
The effect of orphan status on having started sex was significantly modified by country-level HIV prevalence (p = 0.045; see Table 1).
Recent evidence suggests that this pattern held true over the subsequent decade, with women legislators in Argentina playing a crucial role in ensuring the passage of a law that modified that countrys penal code to explicitly define sexual crimes against women and children and toughen the penalties for such egregious acts.
Adjustment for country modified some associations, suggesting that multiple country-specific factors particularly for differences between southern and northern European populations, influence the adduct levels in newborns.
Some suggest the government needs to modify the country's seemingly inviolable preferential policies for Malays, who receive scholarships, cheaper housing and government contracts as part of a policy dating from the 1970s.
For President Obama, the launching deepened the complexity of dealing with the new North Korean government, after four years in which promises of engagement, then threats of deeper sanctions, have done nothing to modify the country's behavior.
