Studies that assess the effectiveness of FRP anchors in anchoring FRP strengthening in flexural members is, however, limited.
There have been few well-designed studies that assess the cost-effectiveness of near-patient immediate testing.
The published studies that assess CMV DNA stability at 4 °C have done so only up to 72 h.
Spatial sensitivity studies that assess the reliability of simulated patterns are important aspects of the modeling process.
However, in addition to this type of studies, we need also comparative studies that assess the aspect approaches mutually.
Quantitative studies that assess and map the relationship between the supply and social demand of ecosystem services are scarce.
We are not aware of comparable longitudinal population-based studies that assess the role of depression as a risk factor for the transformation of EM to CM.
In the present study, neuropsychological variables were added to traditional IQ evaluation, following recent studies that assess neuropsychological functions separately (Noble and Farah 2013; Raizada and Kishiyama 2010).
Until now, studies that assess teachers' positive activity-related emotions for different reference objects in order to contrast their respective effects are extremely rare.
Other studies that assess patients at risk for future cardiovascular events with help of incidental cardiac findings on chest CT have been conducted.
Given these knowledge gaps, we stress the urgency of applied studies that assess species' ecology, behaviour and health across disturbance gradients, including purely anthropogenic landscapes.
