Tortuosity will be quantified using the distance factor (DF) defined by the following ratio[ 54]: D F = Standardised vessel length between defined end points Length of the straight line with same end points Analysis will be performed by manually tracing along vessels using the segmented line function of the medical image analysis software ImageJ.
However in our model we did not find standardised page length predictive of increased reporting of STRICTA items.
A standardised anatomical length of 3 cm starting from the origin of the vessels at the ICA (for the ACA and MCA) or at the basilar artery (for the PCA) will be used.
Metamorphic fish were staged [AR, anal fin ray/6.2 mm standardised standard length (SSL); PB, pelvic fin bud/7.2 mm SSL; PR, pelvic fin ray/8.6 mm SSL; SP, squamation onset posterior/9.6 mm SSL; J, juvenile/11.0 mm SSL; J+, juvenile+/13 mm SSL; and J++, juvenile++/16 mm SSL] according to Parichy et al. (Parichy et al., 2009).
Standardised article page length was estimated by dividing the word count of each article by 1300, a typical full page word count of an article published by the British Medical Journal.
Furthermore, associations between in-hospital standardised mortality rates, length of stay, and early post-discharge mortality rates were found.
Furthermore, we found associations between in-hospital standardised mortality ratio, length of stay, and early post-discharge mortality.
We tested whether birth weight, birth length, standardised fetal growth or gestational age at birth is associated with an increased risk of IHD or MI independently of hereditary factors, sociodemographic factors and comorbidities.
Third, even though anthropometric measurements were performed by trained fieldworkers following standardised procedures, leg length (calculated as the difference between standing height and sitting height) is likely to have some measurement error which could have decreased the precision of estimated associations.
