However, the extent of regional sample submission and the competences of the existing Eastern Africa NRLs for diagnosis of FMD are not well known.
As mentioned above, almost all children in this sample showed low social competence, and this may be related to the fact that we selected only children with substantial expressive language problems.
I would feel a lot more comfortable about condemning "Drug-Fueled Sports Superstars" (editorial, Aug. 7) if I believed in the chain of custody of the athlete's biological samples and the competence, security and impartiality of any one laboratory.
The μ1, i.e., the average nursing competence score in Schwirian's research, was 135.83, whereas μ2, the average expected nursing competence in our sample, was estimated as 158.52.
Mothers, fathers, relatives, family friends, and teachers independently assessed cognitive and social competence for a sample of 91 rural African American children.
This is the first Brazilian study to our knowledge to explore the relation between language deficits, behavior problems and social competence in a sample of children with SLI.
We first calculated the percentage of behavioral problems and low social competence in a sample of 24 Brazilian children with SLI who were attending speech-language therapy, and compared it with the proportion of the same problems in a representative sample of TD children.
To test for differences between strains, confidence intervals about the mean differences in cVC estimates should be constructed based on an acceptable confidence level and the appropriate degrees of freedom (based on the sample size of the vector competence function).
The β-globin gene primers were used to confirm the competence each DNA sample to support PCR.
IR-based methods require little sample preparation, labor, or technical competence if multivariate data mining techniques are implemented; however, they do require extensive calibration.
