Gender and start-weight (weight on day one of the study) were included as co-variables.
On attendance, one of the study clinicians would present the project and take informed consent.
One of the study questions focused on means by which individual results were distributed.
The volunteers were randomized to receive one of the study formulations.
"To me it is a little treasure," Quentin Groom, one of the study leaders, said of the plot.
This demonstrates how tough large-scale field studies are to conduct, said Richard Pywell, one of the study authors.
Provincial government officials applied results to revised management of one of the study beaches.
Those variables negatively influencing the mammal community were reported in one of the study sites.
"This obviously qualifies as a serious adverse event," Dr. Alkis Togias, one of the study researchers, wrote in a letter dated May 9.
"The detailed record shows an acceleration, starting around 2002," Beata Csatho, one of the study authors and a glaciologist at the University at Buffalo, said in an email.
"Another 12 remain," wrote Simon Albert, one of the study authors and a civil engineer at the University of Queensland, Australia, in an email to The Washington Post.
