To examine the potential to predict laboratory cross-contamination or mislabeling, Jasmer et al. (16) established reproducible and predetermined criteria on the basis of DNA fingerprinting.
Topolovec-Vranic et al. [ 13] assessed a mixed population of communicative and not communicative patients and two studies included consecutive ICU admissions on the basis of predetermined inclusion criteria [ 10, 15].
In the absence of information on local base rates, assigning predetermined probabilities to future violence risk on the basis of a structured risk assessment is not supported by the current evidence base.
All abstracts identified through the literature search were screened independently by ≥2 investigators on the basis of predetermined eligibility criteria with a low threshold to exclude irrelevant abstracts such as animal or in vitro studies and studies that did not investigate diet and disease associations.
Then, on the basis of a predetermined selection sequence, triplets of coefficients are selected and preprocessed by applying CA rule.
No cut-off point was predetermined; the items were compared among themselves on the basis of expert assessment.
The ability of these genetic markers to diagnose the metastasis of SLN on the basis of the predetermined cutoff values was then evaluated in the subsequent prospective validation set, which enrolled 155 SLNs from 81 patients between June 2008 and April 2010.
However, studies undertaken with the aim of predetermining the antioxidant power of a given food on the basis of its flavonoid content have, in most cases, failed due to differences between the theoretical and the calculated antioxidant power of that given product.
Seven commonly used CAM methods were predetermined on the questionnaire.
For her documentary "Approaching the Elephant" (Amazon), from 2014, the director Amanda Rose Wilder spent a year among the students and teachers in a newly founded New Jersey free school, an elementary school in which neither curriculum nor classes are predetermined or mandatory and the educational activities change day to day on the basis of students' interests and teachers' perceptions.
