(i.e., there was not preferential assignment to one arm owing to a lack of a superior 4-month PFS observed for one arm).
The nursing station wrapped around the entire unit, so all rooms were very close to clinical staff, again minimizing the potential for preferential assignment of patients to certain rooms.
Practice in the neurological ICU at the time under study did not involve deliberate transfer of patients to window rooms or preferential assignment to window rooms as confirmed by the distribution of patients in each room (see Table S1 in Additional file 1).
These tactics might include: non-preferential assignments, lack of diversity in senior management levels, teams that don't have any minorities, or companies with minimal minority representation.
To that end, the Army has instituted incentives for officers who choose the program: They will receive preferential consideration for assignments commanding battalions and brigades in Afghanistan.
*A 1998 grand jury report concluded that roughly 70 of the department's 370 officers belonged to the Family, and said the group's members had received preferential treatment in assignments.
Those athlete-students are admitted with a full ride and given preferential housing and class assignments over qualified nonscholarship academic-students whose parents must work out how to pay for college.
In fact, the Federal Trade Commission issued an alert last December warning consumers not to fall prey to services promising preferential treatment in the assignment of new domain names.
Seniority rights, enjoyed by teachers in many school systems, give them preferential treatment in transfers to other schools and in class assignments within their system.
Many airports have switched to preferential-use agreements, which allow the airport to yank back gate assignments if an airline doesn't land enough flights or fails to live up to other commitments.
Paired species were required to share taxonomic assignment at least to the family level (the genus level was preferential), have enough of an OGT difference (≥10 °C), and have no more than 5% difference in genomic GC content.
