There were three discrepancies in exposure assessment between physicians and patients or proxies: one 84-year old woman case, whose physician notified a long exposure to benfluorex, was not able to confirm this information; two proxies of control patients were not able to confirm the absence of benfluorex use reported by the physicians.
In the absence of HbA1c, diabetes-related complications, comorbidities and medication use in the pre-index period were used as a proxy to control for severity of disease in propensity score matching.
We build a TCP proxy to control the main functions of TCP layer.
We added a TCP proxy to control the main functions of the TCP layer.
From these data we calculated the fighting success (expressed as the proportion of fights won) as a proxy of dominance rank [41] and statistically controlled for this variable by introducing it in models as a covariate (see below).
Both sides know that this US v Russia proxy war is out of control: Europe has been hit with a tide of refugees that threatens the EU's fragile unity; and the conflict has spread to Iraq, and threatens to erupt in Lebanon and Jordan.
As demonstrated previously in the study of Perrin and Shapiro [ 13], self-reported and parent proxy-reported health locus of control attributions were only moderately correlated in the internal dimension and not at all correlated in the external dimensions.
For Mr. Lipton, executive pay — a hot-button issue in the current political and proxy season — is not out of control.
Sixty-one percent of F-PAD participants completed legal advance instructions and/or authorized a proxy decision maker; 3% of control group participants completed these legal instruments.
According to the news wire Ynet, Netanyahu went on to say, "Since the murder, Iran's proxies seized control of half of the Palestinian people, the half that's in Gaza, and they are looking to take over the other half in Judea and Samaria" — the West Bank.
Barnes & Noble is in the middle of a proxy fight for control of the company, and Borders has struggled with sales and its digital products.
