Advocates point to the favourable cost-effectiveness estimates for deworming programmes, with a focus on the putative effect on schooling outcomes and productivity (Deworm the World 2012).
Consequently, we run a pilot study on the putative effect of transcranial bright light in the treatment of SAD.
But neither Kaptchuk nor Specter makes sufficiently clear that this putative effect helps only with purely subjective symptoms, like pain or anxiety, and not with the objective physical manifestations of disease.
So far, no putative effect of anthropogenic electromagnetic noise at intensities below the guidelines adopted by the World Health Organization1,2 has withstood the test of independent replication under truly blinded experimental conditions.
We studied the long term trends in incidence to evaluate a putative effect of past preventive measures or changes in risk factors.
The fact that "Mamma Mia!" has been nicknamed "the Lourdes of musicals," according to one of its producers, Judy Craymer, for its putative effect on even infirm audience members -- "they throw down their walking sticks and start to dance," she said -- doubtless played a role in the decision to carry on.
The present study was designed to investigate the putative effect of vitexin, a flavone C glucoside present in some drugs, medicinal plants and nutraceuticals, on the central nervous system.
However, little is known about the putative effect of melatonin in experimental models of headache [26].
The putative effect of renal replacement therapy (RRT) on the prognosis of such patients is highly debated; some advocating that outcome might improve owing to modulation of inflammation.
Culturing of autoclaved or roughly filtered river water was compared with 0.45 μm filtered water samples on MacConkey medium to check the efficacy to exclude the putative effect of endogenous coliform.
Trying to examine any putative effect of abortion is made difficult by the mixing or blurring with the effects of these multiple risk factors.
