Attendance of this personal briefing session was voluntary; each individual was personally by the local study coordinator.
During his own visit, Mr. Xi requested a personal briefing from Dr. Vincent Cunnane, the chief executive of Shannon Development, which runs the zone, the company said in a statement.
Only a few weeks ago, on Super Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu delivered a personal briefing by telephone to Mr. Romney about the situation in Iran.
Having had a personal briefing from Scarlett, the attorney general remained unconvinced about the threat posed by Saddam, and hadn't changed his mind about needing to go back to the UN to seek authority for military action.
In your article about the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney ("A Friendship Dating to 1976 Resonates in 2012," front page, April 8), you reported that "on Super Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu delivered a personal briefing by telephone to Mr. Romney about the situation in Iran".
Who came to watch the basketball game?" Often in my visits to the White House this winter, as Congress debated first the stimulus bill and then the president's budget, I watched as one long bus after another, surrounded by Capitol police on motorcycles, pulled up to the northwest gate of the White House, dropping off a Congressional delegation for a personal briefing with Obama.
A sub cohort of only 58 patients attended the personal briefing offer as part of the clinical pathway under consideration (Table 1).
All patients were supplied with written information on these topics, attendance of the personal briefing also included preoperative training for postoperative mobilisation by the Department's physiotherapeutic staff.
The sub cohort of patients having attended a personal briefing, as part of the implemented clinical pathway, significantly differed from the first patient cohort before pathway implementation (median WOMAC increase 39%, Wilcoxon p = 0.029).
The interdisciplinary clinical pathway under consideration primarily consisted of a voluntary preoperative personal briefing of patients concerning postoperatively expectable progess in health status and optimum use of walking aids after surgery.
