This line of reasoning takes us into the old, and not very reassuring, subject of welfare economics—a method of analysis that, like so much else in the rhetoric of the social sciences, suffers deeply from analysis paralysis.
However, most studies quantify smoking only by the self-report of subjects, a method that is frequently not reliable.
"Moreover, the API could be the subject of a method of treatment patent if the API is discovered to be a novel treatment for a disease indication," added Wesner.
Inter-observer agreement on the diagnosis of CS and patterns of 18F-FDG uptake was evaluated by estimating the overall agreement and the kappa statistic for multiple raters (experts) per subject (patient), a method put forward by Fleiss in 1971 [19].
Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War.
However, since the subjects have no other conditions as a frame of reference, this may be a plausible cause of what we have experienced through these results of the SVUP presence index, that is, that between-subjects as a method for this particular presence index is not adequate since the subjects give their initial feeling of how they felt without having anything to measure this feeling against.
In prison interviews with The New York Times, five men said they had been tortured during interrogations, subjected to a method of anal rape known as "the bottle treatment".
We compared the pattern of diabetes diagnosis in Parkinson's disease patients with comorbidity-matched control subjects using a method previously described (9).
In subjects A and D, five methods suggested transmission of multiple viruses, while one method (pairwise distances and recombination analysis for subjects A and D, respectively) argued for transmission of single virus.
