It was the main difficulty confronting all the H.B.C.U.s: a crisis not of purpose but of means.
For the purpose of calculating means, values < LOD were assigned a value of zero, and values < LOQ but > LOD were used unaltered but are indicated by asterisks in figures and parentheses in tables.
Religion is full of definitive answers about the meaning and purpose of life meant to guide you safely from the cradle to the grave.
The principal purpose of this mean is to link the mutation rate of replication to the mean mutation frequency in the progeny population, so the appropriate measure is to average over virions, not infected cells.
We defined mean CVL as the average of the most recent VL of all reported HIV-positive individuals in a particular population in each year from 2005 to 2008 for the purpose of exploring mean CVL among sub-populations and by neighborhood.
For the purpose of computing mean response time for each period of the study, the failure to respond was given a value of 301 seconds (5minutes + 1 second).
Purpose of testing, mean age of participants, HIV status, cytology and biopsy results, detection methods, use of commercial methods, or risk of bias as a result of patient selection did not explain any heterogeneity between indices for study accuracy.
Because of the abstract nature of level of evidence being a numerical categorical variable, the conversion to an integer value for the purpose of comparisons of means has been done to aid in analysis and interpretation.
"Children," for the purpose of this article, means preschool children.
How did your view of the nature and purpose of trials, their means and their ends, evolve over long years of observing them?
