We have developed a comprehensive information leaflet for cognitively intact patients and a simplified and shortened version for those who are partly or not at all competent to give their consent.
Afghanistan's maternal mortality rate, once one of the highest in the world, is now said to be inching down, partly because of the growing presence of competent midwives, and more clinics and better practises in some areas.
A second - partly related - reason is that a competent research infrastructure has been developed only very slowly.
Earning and paid work continue to be symbols of status and prestige – hence competent masculinity – in present day, partly due to powerful forces related to globalisation.
To date, efforts to characterize developmentally competent oocytes have been hampered partly by the difficulty in assessing cytoplasmic maturation [ 27], and the small volume of material available for analysis.
The standards placed upon a civil servant's conduct are partly those to be expected of any loyal, competent, and obedient employee and partly those enjoined upon a public employee.
Many designers have considerable difficulty preparing a competent set of standard building specifications, partly because it demands a shift of gears using a different medium to express design content using written documents instead of drawings.
A competent tactician, he preferred maneuver to battle, partly to conserve scarce British manpower, but also in the hopes of demonstrating British military superiority so convincingly that the Americans would accept negotiation and reconciliation with Britain.
Partly this is due to vastly improved security precautions and competent intelligence services that co-operated much more effectively.
Hospitals had encouraged parents to surrender their infants, partly because of the Communist-era belief that the state was always more competent than the individual and partly because hospital budgets were increased as their caseloads grew.
Furthermore, many studies have demonstrated lower limb varicosities partly or entirely of pelvic venous origin with the latter group having a competent saphenofemoral junction [ 58– 63] and not confined to the perineal, gluteal or perianal tissues.
