Differences in the number of days absent were only assessed if differences for the associated days ill were significant [ 52].
Since blinding both participants and personnel are generally impossible for studies of qigong exercise, we only assessed if the outcome assessors were blind to treatment allocation.
However, our study only assessed if subjects had been exposed to SHS or not, without looking at the time of most recent exposure, so a direct comparison between our study and the Rabinovitch et al. study is not appropriate (indeed, our cotinine assay results would suggest that a number of our SHS subjects had not experienced acute SHS exposure in relation to sample collection time).
The effect of alopecia, if any, was only assessed in young adults for avoiding the confounding influence of ageing.
A further limitation is that the model only assesses intraurban iF, the fraction of a city's emissions that are inhaled by that city's own inhabitants.
If only assessing students present at school, 2% (46 of 1,664) refused participation.
Signals were only assessed as positive if mean spot pixel intensity was higher than the mean local background intensity plus twice the standard deviation of the mean local background pixel intensity.
If they just kind of, if patients are placid as you call it, if there's no big objection, if they're not saying loudly "I want to go home", then I don't feel that on a routine basis we assess their capacity to agree with us, we only assess their capacity if they don't.
We also present experiments on data for male subjects only and for female subjects only, to assess if the diseases can be better predicted if data of only one sex is used.
By establishing site-specific sustainability targets and iteratively using the STV tool to assess the impacts of design changes, this research demonstrates that building designs can be improved at the design stage to perform at higher environmental standards than if they are only assessed once design is complete.
