The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of CEA on cognitive functions in a methodologically more strict design, first by testing the presumption of preoperative cognitive impairment and second through a better control for the possible influence of the nonspecific effects of practice and surgery.
The results from both models show clearly the importance of deprivation, ethnicity, and maternal age as risk factors although the design of this study, based on aggregated data at the PCT level, precludes testing the presumption that these relationships are directly causal.
By testing the presumption of efficiency of a given arrangement against scale, it is possible to determine whether the arrangement happens to be in a situation of least-cost service provision, or whether there may be possibilities for additional cost reductions via rescaling.
This paper aims to test the underlying presumptions that the GCA drives up environmental standards and promotes tourism through sustainable beach management.
The Scout study was the first to actually test this presumption, to see if a diet drug could reduce the risks of heart attacks.
Appeals based on community prevalence may help to destigmatize HIV testing by weakening the presumption that HIV test-seeking reflects stigmatized risk behavior or membership in a stigmatized group.
Applying transaction costs economics to alternative forms of governance, we have been able to test, albeit speculatively, the presumption of efficiency (via least-cost operation) of the present arrangements against their scale dimension.
To test this presumption, we prepared recombinant proteins for each type of the SFB flagellins and examined whether they could activate the TLR5-linked NF-κB signalling pathway.
To test this presumption, we analyzed 4751 human and 2170 murine unique, functional, published CDR-H3 intervals.
The test is based on the presumption that the legislative object itself is not in violation of the Constitution.
