The exposure assessments used a structured interview format, obtaining a lifetime job history with details on tasks and materials, with some studies including supplemental job-specific and industry-specific modules designed to obtain more detailed information pertaining to specific solvents.
We investigated the relationship between the ORTO-15 and ON features such as food choices and nutritional supplement use, alcohol, drug, and cigarette use, and some demographic variables, and added supplemental ON specific questions to examine external criteria for ON.
Supplemental skill-specific training is also available to BSA volunteers to gain knowledge in outdoors skills including camping, hiking, first aid, Leave No Trace, swim safety, climbing safety, hazardous weather, and other skills.
For this study, supplemental disease-specific data was requested for all patients and received in 18 cases.
They outline four CDE groupings: (1) general CDEs (relevant across all neurological research studies, their use is strongly encouraged), (2) stroke CDEs (also strongly encouraged), (3) supplemental disease-specific CDEs (which may be common but not essential) and (4) exploratory CDEs (measures in development or not yet validated).
Both the EORTC and the FACT employ a measurement system that includes a core questionnaire (the QLQ-C30 and the FACT-G, respectively) intended for use with all cancer patients, irrespective of diagnosis or treatment, and condition-specific, supplemental questionnaires that address HRQOL issues specific to particular patient populations (e.g. breast, colon or lung cancer).
The application of volume-specific surface area (VSSA) [see Supplemental Material, "Volumetric Specific Surface Area (VSSA)—A Surface Area Approach," p. 3] was also acknowledged as an agglomerate-tolerant proxy (Kreyling et al. 2010) to identify potential materials; however, number size distributions are to prevail (EC 2011a, 2011b).
Additional file 1: Contains supplemental information for specific methods, as well as additional results for specific models.
If the result of either duplicate test is reactive, the specimen is reported as repeatedly reactive and undergoes confirmatory testing with a more specific supplemental test (e.g., Western blot or, less commonly, an immunofluorescence assay (IFA)).
To test this hypothesis, we cloned and expressed five active recombinant TcTS clones by PCR (see sequences in Figure S2, supplemental data) using specific primers to amplify the entire globular core of the enzyme (see Materials and Methods).
